bes shahar, eluki
Entry updated 10 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1956- ) US author whose real name may be Eluki Besshahar but who inscribes her working name as eluki bes shahar; she increasingly writes under the pseudonym Rosemary Edghill (Edghill being her mother's maiden name). She began publishing work of genre interest as bes shahar with "Casablanca" for Hydrospanner Zero in 1981; the tale became part of her first novel, Hellflower (fixup 1991), which begins the Butterfly St Cyr sequence about a female space pilot whose smuggling activities embroil her in an interstellar plot involving dynasties and a young prince; the story continues with Darktraders (1992), which is less energetic, though complicated, and Archangel Blues (1993), in which some Virtual Reality riffs are explored, and the enormously complicated plot is wrapped up; all three were assembled as Butterfly & Hellflower (omni 1993). The Bell, Book, and Murder sequence, beginning with Speak Daggers to Her (1994) as by Rosemary Edghill, comprises mysteries with borderline sf elements; the Twelve Treasures sequence, beginning with The Sword of Maiden's Tears (1994) as by Rosemary Edghill, concerns elves and librarians. [JC]
eluki bes shahar/Rosemary Edghill
born June 1956
works
as eluki bes shahar
series
Butterfly St Cyr
- Hellflower (New York: DAW Books, 1991) [Butterfly St Cyr: pb/Nicholas Jainschigg]
- Darktraders (New York: DAW Books, 1992) [Butterfly St Cyr: pb/Nicholas Jainschigg]
- Archangel Blues (New York: DAW Books, 1993) [Butterfly St Cyr: pb/Nicholas Jainschigg]
- Butterfly & Hellflower (New York: GuildAmerica, 1993) [omni of the above three: Butterfly St Cyr: hb/Peter Scanlan]
X-Men
- X-Men and Spiderman: Time's Arrow: The Future (New York: Berkley, 1998) with Tom DeFalco [tie to the Comic universe: X-Men and Spiderman: Time's Arrow: pb/Jim Burns]
- X-Men: Smoke and Mirrors (New York: Boulevard, 1999) [tie to the Comic universe: X-Men and Spiderman: Time's Arrow: pb/Greg and Tim Hildebrandt]
as Rosemary Edghill
series
Twelve Treasures
- The Sword of Maiden's Tears (New York: DAW Books, 1994) [Twelve Treasures: pb/John Howe]
- The Cup of Morning Shadows (New York: DAW Books, 1995) [Twelve Treasures: pb/John Howe]
- The Cloak of Night and Daggers (New York: DAW Books, 1997) [Twelve Treasures: pb/John Howe]
- The Empty Crown (New York: GuildAmerica Books, 1997) [omni of the above three: Twelve Treasures: pb/Gary A Lippincott]
Bell, Book, and Murder
- Speak Daggers to Her (New York: Tor/Forge Books, 1994) [Bell, Book, and Murder: hb/Peter Scanlan]
- Book of Moons: A Bast Mystery (New York: Tor/Forge Books, 1995) [Bell, Book, and Murder: hb/Deirdre Snowdon-Romer]
- The Bowl of Night: A Bast Mystery (New York: Tor/Forge Books, 1996) [Bell, Book, and Murder: hb/]
- Bell, Book, and Murder: The Bast Mysteries (New York: Tor/Forge Books, 1998) [omni of the above three: Bell, Book, and Murder: pb/]
individual titles
- Met by Moonlight (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1998) [pb/]
- The Warslayer; An Incredibly True Adventure of Vixen the Slayer, the Beginning (New York: Baen Books, 2002) [hb/Carol Heyer]
- Paying the Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Waterville, Maine: Five Star Books, 2003) [coll: hb/Stephanie Law]
- Vengeance of Masks (Holicong, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press, 2003) [pb/Kelly Freas]
works as editor
- Murder by Magic: Twenty Tales of Crime and the Supernatural (New York: Warner Books, 2004) [anth: pb/]
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