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Sara Creasy Sara Creasy i(A139281 works by)
Born: Established: West Midlands,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

'Sara Creasy grew up in a tumbling-down Victorian house in England, where she tapped out her first stories on a tiny blue typewriter. After moving to southeastern Australia as a teenager, her love of all things fantastical hooked her on science fiction. Meanwhile, in real life, a biology degree led to work as an editor in the educational publishing industry. She was associate editor of Australia's science fiction and fantasy magazine Aurealis for several years, and her involvement with the SF community inspired her to write her first novel, Song of Scarabaeus (2010), which was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and the Aurealis Award for Best SF Novel.

'Marriage to an American resulted in a second intercontinental move, and she lived in Arizona for five years before returning to Australia with her husband and baby daughter in 2010.'

Source: Sara Creasy's website, http://www.saracreasy.com/
Sighted: 05/04/2011

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • For further information, see Sara Creasy's website: http://www.saracreasy.com/

Personal Awards

2002 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Peter McNamara Convenors' Award For compiling and editing the monthly ebulletin 'AurealisXpress'
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Children of Scarabaeus New York (City) : Voyager , 2011 Z1851386 2011 single work novel science fiction

'The crib is everywhere...

'Edie Sha'nim believes she and her bodyguard lover, Finn, could find refuge from the tyranny of the Crib empire by fleeing to the Fringe worlds. But Edie's extraordinary cypherteck ability to manipulate the ecology of evolving planets makes her far too valuable for the empire to lose. Recaptured and forced to cooperate - or else she will watch Finn die - Edie is shocked to discover the Crib's new breed of cypherteck: children. She cannot stand by while the oppressors enslave the innocent, nor can she resist the lure of Scarabaeus, the first world she tried to save, when researchers discover what appears to be an evolving intelligence.

'But escape-for Edie, for Finn, and for the exploited young will require the ultimate sacrifice... and a shocking act of rebellion.' (From the publisher's website.)
2011 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Best Novel
y separately published work icon Song of Scarabaeus New York (City) : EOS , 2010 Z1770114 2010 single work novel science fiction 'Trained since childhood in advanced biocyph seed technology by the all-powerful Crib empire, Edie's mission is to terraform alien worlds while her masters bleed the outlawed Fringe populations dry. When renegade mercenaries kidnap Edie, she's not entirely sure it's a bad thing... until they leash her to a bodyguard, Finn—a former freedom fighter-turned-slave, beaten down but never broken. If Edie strays from Finn's side, he dies. If she doesn't cooperate, the pirates will kill them both.

'But Edie's abilities far surpass anything her enemies imagine. And now, with Finn as her only ally as the merciless Crib closes in, she'll have to prove it or die on the site of her only failure... a world called Scarabaeus.' (From the publisher's website.)
2010 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Best Novel
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