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Fran Wilde

July 10, 1972 (age 53)

Birth place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

79 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
September 2011 5 Short Fiction Everlasting Daily Science Fiction, September 2011
November 2011 16 Short Fiction Everyone Loves a Hero Daily Science Fiction, November 2011
September 2012 Short Fiction Without Nature, September 20, 2012
November 2012 Essay Cooking the Books: The Roundtable Strange Horizons, 26 November 2012
2014 |2 Short Fiction The Naturalist Composes His Rebuttal Lakeside Circus, Year One, Issue Two, Summer 2014
April 2014 62 Short Fiction Like a Wasp to the Tongue Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2014
June 2014 Short Fiction Local Delicacies The Drabblecast, #328
June 2014 3 Short Fiction Nine Dishes on the Cusp of Love Daily Science Fiction, June 2014
July 2014 Short Fiction The Topaz Marquise Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #152
October 2014 31 Review Questionable Practices The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 2014
October 2014 Short Fiction Welcome Briefing at the Obayashi-Ragan Youth Hostel Abyss & Apex, 4th Quarter 2014
March 2015 53 Short Fiction With Regrets, The Official Report of the Ballot Incident at the Academy Scientific Lakeside Circus, Spring 2015
March 2015 |9 Short Fiction You Are Two Point Three Meters from Your Destination Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2015
April 2015 133 Short Fiction How to Walk Through Historic Graveyards in the Post-Digital Age Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2015
May 2015 45|45.4 Review Updraft Locus, #652 May 2015
September 2015 |3 Interview Author Interview: Fran Wilde Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #181
September 2015 |1 Short Fiction Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #181
September 2015 Interview InterGalactic Interview with Fran Wilde Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #47, September 2015
September 2015 Short Fiction Updraft (excerpt) Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #47, September 2015
October 2015 Review Updraft Fantasy Scroll Magazine, October 2015
November 2015 |13.2 Review Updraft Lightspeed, November 2015
November 2015 117 Interview Words with Wings: A Conversation with Fran Wilde Clarkesworld, November 2015
January 2016 Review Updraft Strange Horizons, 11 January 2016
January 2016 Review Updraft Strange Horizons, 11 January 2016
February 2016 146 Essay Another Word: Very Close Now Clarkesworld, February 2016
March 2016 68 Interview Magical Engineering Locus, #662 March 2016
March 2016 108 Review Updraft Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2016
July 2016 45 Review The Jewel and Her Lapidary Locus, #666 July 2016
September 2016 51 Review Cloudbound Locus, #668 September 2016
September 2016 |1 Short Fiction Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left Shimmer, September 2016
September 2016 |2 Interview Shimmer Interviews: Fran Wilde Shimmer, September 2016
October 2016 |4 Short Fiction A Moment of Gravity, Circumscribed Lightspeed, October 2016
October 2016 139 Essay Another Word: The Ship's Voice: A Risk Analysis and Modest Proposal Clarkesworld, October 2016
October 2016 |19 Interview Author Spotlight: Fran Wilde Lightspeed, October 2016
December 2016 |13.1 Review Cloudbound Lightspeed, December 2016
February 2017 |12 Essay Excerpt: Futurescapes: Cities of Empowerment Lightspeed, February 2017
April 2017 Short Fiction Regarding Your Future with the Futures Planning Consortium Fireside Magazine, April 2017
July 2017 134 Essay Another Word: Invisible and Visible Engineering in Science Fiction Clarkesworld, July 2017
August 2017 16 Essay Read This The New York Review of Science Fiction, August 2017
September 2017 |2 Short Fiction Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2017
September 2017 |4 Interview Interview: Fran Wilde Uncanny Podcast, 5 September 2017
September 2017 Short Fiction The Thousandth Cycle Forever, September 2017
October 2017 23 Review Horizon Locus, #681 October 2017
December 2017 |12.1 Review Horizon Lightspeed, December 2017
January 2018 |9 Essay We Will See You Now Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2018
February 2018 |9 Essay Another Word: A Brief Parable About Exchanges Between Time, Independence, Technology, and Privacy Clarkesworld, February 2018
March 2018 |4 Review Horizon Strange Horizons, 12 March 2018
March 2018 |13 Poem The Sea Never Says It Loves You Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2018
August 2018 127 Essay Another Word: Keeping Time Clarkesworld, August 2018
September 2018 |12 Short Fiction Disconnect Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2018
September 2018 33 Essay Oh, You Know Gardner Dozois, Of Course The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 2018
September 2018 Short Fiction Ruby, Singing Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #261
September 2018 |19 Essay The Linguistics of Disability, or, Empathy > Sympathy Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2018
October 2018 |16 Short Fiction Choose Wisely Fireside Quarterly, October 2018
October 2018 |14 Essay You Wake Up Monstrous Fireside Quarterly, October 2018
December 2018 |5 Essay You Wake Up Monstrous: A Few Thoughts on Transformation and Disability in Body Horror Media Fireside Magazine, December 2018
January 2019 |1 Short Fiction A Catalog of Storms Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2019
January 2019 |3 Interview Interview: Fran Wilde (Uncanny Podcast, 1 January 2019) Uncanny Podcast, 1 January 2019
January 2019 |19 Poem The Unseen Fireside Quarterly, January 2019
March 2019 132 Essay Another Word: A Flock of Crows in a Swan Suit Clarkesworld, March 2019
December 2019 73 Short Fiction Happenstance Reckoning, 4
April 2020 |1 Short Fiction An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands Tor.com, April 22 2020
May 2020 |11 Essay It Is Not That the Spoon Must Bend, or: Cypher's Steak and Our Online Lives Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2020
June 2020 Short Fiction Please, Stop Printing Unicorns Cast of Wonders, #417
January 2021 140 Short Fiction Mayor for Today Asimov's Science Fiction, January-February 2021
February 2021 27|27.5 Interior Art Space Needs Mers Mermaids Monthly, February 2021
February 2021 27 Poem Space Needs Mers Mermaids Monthly, February 2021
May 2021 |3 Interview Interview: Fran Wilde (Uncanny Podcast, 4 May 2021) Uncanny Podcast, 4 May 2021
May 2021 |1 Short Fiction Unseelie Brothers, Ltd. Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2021
July 2021 64 Short Fiction Seed Star Asimov's Science Fiction, July-August 2021
2022 80 Short Fiction Shadow Plane Weird Tales, No. 365
February 2022 |2 Short Fiction My Cloak of Keys The Deadlands, February 2022
May 2022 4 Essay Teaching the Metatext Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2022
October 2022 |4.16 Review A Recipe for Magic Strange Horizons, 3 October 2022
May 2023 |1 Short Fiction The Rain Remembers What the Sky Forgets Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2023
June 2023 |3 Interview Interview: Fran Wilde Uncanny Podcast, 6 June 2023
May 2024 |17 Poem Moon Sun Shadow Crow Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2024
August 2025 138 Interview Tactical Ballgowns and Genre Turduckens: A Conversation with Fran Wilde Clarkesworld, August 2025
September 2025 |155 Review A Philosophy of Thieves Locus Magazine, September 2025

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2016 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Andre Norton Award Updraft Winner
2016 Compton Crook Award Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel) Updraft Winner
2016 Dragon Award Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel Updraft Nominee
2016 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Updraft Nominee
2016 Nebula Award Novel Updraft Nominee
2017 Hugo Award Best Novelette The Jewel and Her Lapidary Finalist
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel Cloudbound Nominee
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette The Jewel and Her Lapidary Finalist
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left Nominee
2017 Nebula Award Novelette The Jewel and Her Lapidary Nominee
2017 WSFA Small Press Award WSFA Small Press Award Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left Nominee
2018 British Science Fiction Award Best Short Fiction Ruby, Singing Nominee
2018 Hugo Award Best Short Story Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand Nominee
2018 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel Horizon Nominee
2018 Nebula Award Short Story Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand Nominee
2018 The Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction Eugie Award Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand Winner
2018 World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand Nominee
2019 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Ruby, Singing Nominee
2019 Rhysling Award Short Poem The Sea Never Says It Loves You Nominee
2020 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Andre Norton Award Riverland Winner
2020 Hugo Award Best Short Story A Catalog of Storms Finalist
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Novella The Fire Opal Mechanism Nominee
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story A Catalog of Storms Nominee
2020 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book Best Young Adult Book Riverland Finalist
2020 Nebula Award Short Story A Catalog of Storms Nominee
2020 Rhysling Award Short Poem The Unseen Nominee
2021 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands Nominee
2022 Hugo Award Best Novelette Unseelie Brothers, Ltd. Runner-up
2022 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Unseelie Brothers, Ltd. Finalist
2023 Elgin Award Book Clock Star Rose Spine Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Novella The Book of Gems Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The Rain Remembers What the Sky Forgets Nominee
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Year Publication Title
February 2021 Mermaids Monthly, February 2021 Space Needs Mers