Seth Dickinson

Seth Dickinson is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, best known for the 2015 debut novel '' The Traitor Baru Cormorant'' and its sequels ''The Monster Baru Cormorant'' and ''The Tyrant Baru Cormorant''.

Career

Dickinson graduated from the University of Chicago, there receiving the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing in 2011 for the short story "The Immaculate Conception of Private Ritter". Dickinson has published short fiction in ''Clarkesworld'', ''Strange Horizons'', '' Lightspeed'' and '' Beneath Ceaseless Skies'', among others. Dickinson also contributed writing to video games, including '' Destiny: The Taken King'' (2015).

Dickinson's debut novel '' The Traitor Baru Cormorant'', a hard fantasy expansion of a 2011 short story, is about a brilliant young woman who, educated in the schools of the imperial power that subjugated her homeland, sets out to gain power to subvert the empire from within. It was published in September 2015 and was well received by critics. Dickinson has blogged about addressing issues around gender and feminism, race, homosexuality, and imperialism in the world of Baru Cormorant.

''The Traitor Baru Cormorant'' is the first novel in a series called The Masquerade. Dickinson completed the draft of a sequel, ''The Monster Baru Cormorant'', in July 2017, submitting a manuscript of 1,104 pages. The final version, published in 2018, comprised half of this material. The remainder was published in 2020 as ''The Tyrant Baru Cormorant''. While the series was originally planned to be a trilogy, a fourth novel has been announced.

''Exordia'', Dickinson's fourth novel, a science fiction story introducing a new setting, was released in January 2024. ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote: "With cool alien technology, admirably hopeful heroes, and SFF pop culture references littered throughout, this will have readers hooked". In an interview with BookPage magazine, Dickinson said that the book was inspired by the LEGO Bionicle toy line, as well as novels ''The Andromeda Strain'' and ''Sphere'' by Michael Crichton.

Bibliography

Novels

The Masquerade series

# '' The Traitor Baru Cormorant'', 15 September 2015, Tor Books. Published as ''The Traitor'' in the UK. Based on the short story "The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds" (''Beneath Ceaseless Skies'', 2011).
# ''The Monster Baru Cormorant'', 30 October 2018, Tor Books.
# ''The Tyrant Baru Cormorant'', 9 June 2020, Tor Books.
# A final novel, forthcoming.

Other novels

* ''Exordia'' (2024)
* Forthcoming novel tied to existing IP

Short fiction

Writing for video games

* '' FreeSpace 2: Blue Planet'' (2010)
* '' Destiny: The Taken King'' (2015)
* '' Destiny 2: Forsaken'' (2018)
* Forthcoming content in the ''Subnautica'' franchise
* Forthcoming content for Magic: The Gathering expansion Edge of Eternities

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References

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