(1955- ) Canadian author who began publishing work of genre interest with "First Contact" in First Contact (anth 1997) edited by Martin H Greenberg and Larry Segriff, First Contact being a theme of clear interest to her as it clearly shapes much of her work, either explicitly as in In the Company of Others (2001) or as an underlying template in the Web Shifter sequence (her second) which begins with Beholder's Eye (1998).
Throughout, the underlying Xenobiology involved in her description of Aliens has been consistently interesting. In both these examples, moreover, some fairly routine Space Opera riff and high jinks are sobered by the Conceptual Breakthrough implications inherent in first contact stories of substance. Her first series, on the other hand, the relatively ambitious Trade Pact Universe sequence – comprising A Thousand Words for Stranger (1997), Ties of Power (1999) and To Trade the Stars (2002) – becomes over-congested through an accumulation of Aliens and Telepaths, none of this material very convincingly enfiladed into an overall structure itself burdened by the task of presenting interstellar trading as a viable enterprise. Her third series, the Species Imperative sequence, beginning with Survival (2004), competently engages with (and occasionally skirts) similar issues and venues. As an anthologist, Czerneda has very usefully assembled several attractive volumes with high Canadian content. [JC]
Julie E Czerneda
born Exeter, Ontario: 11 April 1955
died
works
series
Trade Pact Universe
Trade Pact Universe: Stratification
Web Shifters
Species Imperative
- Survival (New York: DAW Books, 2004) [Species Imperative: hb/Luis Royo]
- Migration (New York: DAW Books, 2005) [Species Imperative: hb/Luis Royo]
- Regeneration (New York: DAW Books, 2006) [Species Imperative: hb/Luis Royo]
- Species Imperative (New York: DAW Books, 2014) [omni of the above three: Species Imperative: pb/]
Night's Edge
Reunification
individual titles
works as editor
- No Limits: Developing Scientific Literacy Using Science Fiction (Toronto, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside/Trifolium Books, 1999) [nonfiction: anth: companion to Packing Fraction below: pb/]
- Packing Fraction and Other Tales of Science and Imagination (Toronto, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside/Trifolium Books, 1999) [anth: companion to No Limits above: pb/Fizzz Design]
- Stardust (Toronto, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside/Trifolium Books, 2001) [anth: Tales from the Wonder Zone: pb/Jean-Pierre Normand]
- Explorer (Toronto, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside/Trifolium Books, 2002) [anth: Tales from the Wonder Zone: pb/Jean-Pierre Normand]
- Space Inc (New York: DAW Books, 2003) with Martin Harry Greenberg [anth: pb/Jean-Pierre Normand]
- Orbiter (Toronto, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside/Trifolium Books, 2003) [anth: Tales from the Wonder Zone: pb/Jean-Pierre Normand]
- Odyssey (Toronto, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside/Trifolium Books, 2004) [anth: Tales from the Wonder Zone: pb/Jean-Pierre Normand]
- ReVisions (New York: DAW Books, 2004) with Isaac Szpindel [anth: pb/Kenn Brown]
- Summoned to Destiny (Toronto, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside/Trifolium Books, 2004) [anth: Realms of Wonder: pb/Kenn Brown and Chris Wren]
- Fantastic Companions (Toronto, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside/Trifolium Books, 2005) [anth: Realms of Wonder: pb/Kenn Brown and Chris Wren]
- Mythspring (Calgary, Alberta: Fitzhenry and Whiteside/Red Deer Press, 2006) with Genevieve Kierans [anth: hb/Kenn Brown]
- Under Covers of Darkness (New York: DAW Books, 2007) with Jana Paniccia [anth: pb/Kenn Brown and Chris Wren]
- Polaris: A Celebration of Polar Science (Toronto, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside/Star Ink Books, 2007) [anth: hb/Jean-Pierre Normand]
- Misspelled (New York: DAW Books, 2008) [anth: pb/]
- Ages of Wonder (New York: DAW Books, 2009) [anth: pb/]
- Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales (Calgary, Alberta: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2011) with Susan MacGregor [anth: Tesseracts: Tesseracts: pb/Michael O]
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2017: The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books/Pyr, 2017) [anth: Nebula Anthologies: pb/Liz Mills]
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