Marianne de Pierres (born 1961) is an Australian science fiction author. Born in Western Australia, she finished her undergraduate studies at Curtin University in Perth and later studied a Postgraduate Certificate of Arts in Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Queensland. In 2019, she completed her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland. Throughout her writing career she has been actively involved in promoting

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in Australia and is the co-founder of the Vision Writers Group with Rowena Cory Daniells, and ROR – wRiters on the Rise, a critiquing group for professional writers. She was also involved in the early planning stage of Clarion South.

Publications

The greater body of her work has seen publication in the UK and Australia. In 2004, her series of novels with the

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Parrish Plessis, a postapocalyptic

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and

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, was published in the United Kingdom through

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and in 2005 in the United States through

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. The novels in this series include '' Nylon Angel'', ''

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'', and '' Crash Deluxe'' and have been adapted into a

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. Her second series, Sentients of Orion comprises four books: ''Dark Space'', ''Chaos Space'', ''Mirror Space'' and ''Transformation Space'', published in the United Kingdom through

. ''Transformation Space'' won an

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for Best SF novel in 2011. In 2008 de Pierres began writing humorous crime under the pseudonym Marianne Delacourt. To date there are four novel novels in the Tara Sharp series: ''Sharp Shooter'', ''Sharp Turn'', ''Too Sharp'' and ''Sharp Edge''. The first three novels were published by Allen and Unwin then later re-released by Twelfth Planet Press with the fourth book being released in 2017. The first novel, ''Sharp Shooter'' received a

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in 2010 for Best Crime novel by an Australian woman. The Tara Sharp series was optioned for film and TV by Hoodlum Productions, Brisbane. Her

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series, ''Night Creatures'' (''Burn Bright'', ''Angel Arias'' and ''Shine Light'') was published by

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, Australia. It featured a collaboration with Australian indie singer, ''Yunyu'', who wrote songs to accompany the release of first two books. In 2014, Angry Robot Books published her ''Peacemaker'' urban fantasy, crime, Western series.

Critical Work Based on de Pierres Fiction

Boshoff, Dorothea, 'Situated Knowledges – love in the time of patriarchy: lack of positive intimacy in Marianne de Pierres' The Sentients of Orion.' International Society for the Study of Gender and Love. Conference paper, 2020 Aliaga-Lavrijsen, J. Pregnancy, Childbirth and Nursing in Feminist Dystopia: Marianne de Pierres' Transformation Space (2010). Humanities 2020, 9, 58 Boshoff, Dorothea, 'Becoming Alien(ated): A case study examining intimacy and loneliness in selected works by Marianne de Pierres.' (2020) Boshoff, Dorothea and Deidre Byrne. 'He Said, She Said: Fake News and MeToo in Marianne de Pierres' Sentients of Orion.' Messenger from the Stars Journal: On Science Fiction and Fantasy. No. 4 (2019): 88- 102. Guest Eds.: Danièle André & Cristophe Becker. Turcotte, Gerry. 'The Caribbean Gothic Down Under: Caribbean Influences in Marianne de Pierres' Parrish Plessis Novels.' Caietele Echinox. 35. 237–243. 10.24193/cechinox.2018.35.15. (2018) Boshoff, Dorothea. 'Crafting Positions: Representations of Intimacy and Gender in The Sentients of Orion.' PhD. University of South Africa, (2017) Weaver, Roslyn. 'The End of Human: apocalypse, cyberpunk and the Parrish Plessis novels.' ''Apocalypse in Australian Film and Fiction: a critical study. Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy''; 28, McFarland Press, (2011) Her complete bibliography is available from he
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Abridged Bibliography

Source

As Marianne de Pierres

As Marianne Delacourt

Awards and nominations

As Marianne Delacourt

References

External resources

Marianne de Pierres' official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pierres, Marianne De Living people Australian women science fiction and fantasy writers 1961 births People from Redland City Australian science fiction writers