Brenda W. Clough (also credited as B.W. Clough) (pronounced ''Cluff'')Brenda Visits
by Sue Lange, at BookviewCafe.com; published April 31, 2009; retrieved February 14, 2021; "rhymes with ''rough''" (born November 13, 1955) is an American

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and

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writer. She has been nominated for the Hugo and

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Awards in 2002 for her novella '' May Be Some Time''.

Background and personal life

Born Brenda Wang on November 13, 1955, in

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, she is the child of Chinese immigrants. In a 2014 interview, she related that "for the first five years of my life I spoke only Chinese. I am told that I started kindergarten without a word of English. I can remember nothing of this, and now only speak Chinese at, you guessed it, a five-year-old level." She is a self-described "

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brat" who spent a large amount of her childhood and teenage years living in Europe and Asia (including Manila and Hong Kong) due to her father's career. According to her website, "as a girl" she attended the American School of Vientiane in

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. She later attended

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. She lives with her husband, Larry Clough, in

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Career

Starting with her first published novel in 1984, Clough’s works have covered a range of subgenres including, high fantasy, contemporary stories of people with extrasensory perception, time travel stories set in Antarctica, novels set in the Victorian era—including a 12-book historical fiction series following up on

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' 1860 '' The Woman in White''—and alternate histories of China from the Bronze Age to steampunk. Clough taught science fiction and fantasy writing workshops at the Writer's Center in

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and at the Baltimore Science Fiction Society She is a member of the

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writer's cooperative.

Bibliography

Novels

Averidan series

* ''The Crystal Crown'', DAW, New York, 1984. * ''The Dragon of Mishbil'', DAW, New York, 1985. * ''The Realm Beneath'', DAW, New York, 1986. * ''The Name of the Sun'', DAW, New York, 1988.

Suburban Gods series

* ''How Like a God'', Tor Books, New York, 1997. * ''Doors of Death and Life'', Tor Books, New York, 2000. * ''Out of the Abyss'' (as yet unpublished sequel to ''Doors of Death and Life'')

The Thrilling Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

* ''Marian Halcombe'', 2018. Book View Cafe. * ''The King of the Book'', 2021 Book View Cafe. * ''The Jaguaar Queen of Copal'', 2021. Book View Cafe. * ''The Earl in the Shadows'', 2021. Book View Cafe. * ''The True Prince of Vaurantania'', 2021. Book View Cafe. * ''The River Horse Tsar'', 2021. Book View Cafe. * ''The Nautilus Knight'', 2021. Book View Cafe. * ''The Compass of Truth'', 2021. Book View Cafe. * ''The Pirate Princess'', 2021. Book View Cafe. * ''The Single Musketeer'', 2021. Book View Cafe. * ''The Cobra Marked King'', 2021. Book View Cafe. * ''Servants of the Empress'', 2024. Book View Cafe.

Other novels

* ''An Impossumble Summer'', Walker and Company, New York, 1992. * ''Revise the World'', Book View Cafe, 2009. * ''Speak to Our Desires'', Book View Cafe, 2011. * ''The River Twice'', Book View Cafe, 2019. * ''Meet Myself There'', Book View Cafe, 2019. * ''The Fog of Time'', Book View Cafe, 2019.

Short stories

*"Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog", ''Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine'', 1988 link
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), ''Amazing'', April 1993 *"The Bottomless Pit", ''

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'', Winter 1994 *"Handing on the Goggles", ''Superheroes'', 1995 *"The Product of the Extremes", ''How to Save the World'' 1995 *"To Serve a Prince", ''Science Fiction Age'', Nov. 1995 *"The Birth Day", '' The Sandman: Book of Dreams'', HarperPrism, 1996 *"Grow Your Own", ''Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine'', 2000 *"Times Fifty", ''Christianity Today'', October 1, 200

*" May Be Some Time", ''Analog'', April 2001''

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'', April 2001 *"Tiptoe, On a Fence Post", ''Analog'', July–August 2002 *"Escape Hatch", ''

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'', Autumn 2003 *"How the Bells Came from Yang to Hubei", ''

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Non-fiction

*"Prairie Oysters in Hell: Interpretations of Isherwood in Dramatic Media", ''The Reston Review'', first quarter 1992 link
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nowiki>/nowiki> *"Why I live in Washington, DC", ''SFWA Bulletin'', Fall 1997 *"Swindlers, Sharks & Scams: Writer Beware!" (with Ann C. Crispin), ''SFWA Bulletin'', series starting in Vol 32, Issue 3, Winter 1998 *''Jo Clayton's Online Lifeline'', 1999 link
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References

External links

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Review, "May Be Some Time"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clough, Brenda Living people 1955 births 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American fantasy writers American science fiction writers American women short story writers American women novelists American writers of Chinese descent American women science fiction and fantasy writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers Carnegie Mellon University alumni Writers from Washington, D.C.