Julie E. Czerneda
She's fairly new on the
scifi
scene, but her skill is impressive. Her characters are ultra
believable
and highly likeable. Her four, very different, universes are
intricate
and exciting.
Julie E. Czerneda lives in
Orillia, Ontario.
She was a finalist for
the
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the Best New Writer in 1999. Her
short
fiction has been published in the anthologies First Contact, Far
Frontiers,
Spell Fantastic and Silicon Dreams. Julie's published SF novels are "A
Thousand
Words for Stranger", "Ties of
Power" and "To Trade the Stars"
from the "Trade Pact Universe"
series
and "Beholder's
Eye", "Changing Vision" and "Hidden in Sight" from the "Web
Shifters" series
was a finalist for the 2000 Aurora award for best Long-Form
work in
English.
Julie's novels "Beholder's
Eye","Changing Vision"
and her short story "Down on the Farm" were
both
finalists for a 2001 Aurora award.
She just gets
better and better with each book (and I'm not just saying that because
she's Canadian, like me, eh).
Cover Art By Louis Royo
Trade
Pact Universe:
|
A
Thousand Words For
Stranger |
Ties
of Power
|
To
Trade the
Stars
|
Trade
Pact Universe:
A Thousand Words For
Stranger
The mysterious and
powerful alien Clan have
co-existed on human worlds, maintaining their privacy. When one of
their kind, Sira, is discovered on the run on a Trade Pact world and
helped to escape by a human from forces both within and without the
Clan, it is only the beginning. For the Clan is facing its ultimate
doom and Sira holds the key to survival. If she can rediscover herself
in time.
Ties of Power
Sira, the most
powerful member of the alien Clan,
has dared to challenge the will of her people-by allying herself with a
human. But can she hope to carve a new life for herself when the Clan
is determined to reclaim her genetic heritage...at any cost?
To Trade The
Stars
Jason and Sira - he
a human telepath and
independent trader, she now Speaker for the Clan Council, as well as
Jason's life partner - are trying to forge a life for themselves free
of the demands of both the Clan and the Drapsk, a race determined to
claim Sira as the long-awaited Mystic One. And as if these conflicting
deamnds aren't making life complicated enough, there are at least two
other factions with far more dangerous intentions seeking them out.
Any hope Sira and Jason have of charting their own
course seems likely
to vanish forever when they are unexpectedly caught in a conflict
between the Drapsk and a mysterious race that dwells in the M'hir. With
all of their energies directed toward this crisis, will they become
easy prey for those among the Clan and the Humans, who are already
mobilizing to take advantage of the coming conflict?
Web
Shifters:
Beholder's
Eye |
Changing
Vision |
Hidden in
Sight |
Beholder's Eye
They
are the last survivors of their race, beings
who live on and communicate through energy, who are capable of assuming
the shape of any other species. When their youngest member is assigned
to a world considered safe to explore, she is captured by the natives.
To escape, she must violate the most important rule of her kind, and
reveal the existence of her species to a fellow prisoner-a human being.
Now her race is in danger of extinction, for even if the human does not
betray her, the Enemy who has long searched for her people may finally
discover their location....
Changing
Vision
Changing
Vision continues the story of Esen, the last survivor of an
alien race with the ability to assume the form of any creature. Now
Esen must break her species' rule of noninterference-to keep
interspecies tension from escalating intoall-out war....
Hidden In Sight
Web Shifters series continues with the
story of Esen-the last survivor of a unique alien race. Able to take on
the form of any creature she observes, Esen has long since broken the
cardinal rule of her species: noninterference.
Species
Imperative:
Survival |
Migration |
Regeneration |
Survival
When her Field Base
is mysteriously attacked, Dr.
Mackenzie Connor must flee for her life. Joining forces with an alien
archaeologist, she escapes to his planet on a quest to find a defense
against the unknown agressor-before they launch a full-scale invasion
of Earth.
Migration
Returning to
her research facility on Earth in time for spring migration, Mac
believes she is now free to pick up her life again. But the enemy is on
the move, destroying planet after planet. And, summoned to a gathering
of the Inter Species Union, Mac becomes part of the desperate search to
stop the enemy no matter what the cost. But the only help Mac can find
may bring destruction as easily as salvation.
Regeneration
With
the alien
Dhryn helplessly following an instinct-driven migratory
path through the inhabited spaceways-bringing about the annihilation of
other races that lie along the star trail they are following-time is
running out for all sentient life forms. Only Dr. Mackenzie Connor and
her team stand any chance of solving the deadly puzzle of the Dhryn and
the equally mysterious Ro. Are the Ro the universe's last hope of
halting the deadly Dhryn migration? Or are they something far more
sinister? As the only human accepted by the Dhryn as one of their own,
Mac perhaps can intervene and open a line of communication to the
Dhryn. And her friend and fellow researcher, Dr. Emily Mamani, may
prove key to the process, for she is the only human who has survived
possession by the Ro.
Stratification:
Reap the Wild Wind
|
Riders of the Storm
September 2008
|
|
In
the first book of the Stratification
series, set in an
earlier time in Czerneda's Trade Pact Universe, the Clan has not yet
learned how to manipulate the M'hir to travel between worlds. Instead,
they are a people divided into small tribes, scattered over a fraction
of their world, and prevented from advancing by two other powerful
races who control both technology and terrain.
Aliens begin
exploring the Clan's home planet, upsetting the delicate balance
between the three intelligent races. It is a time, too, when one young
woman is on the verge of mastering the forbidden power of the M'hir-a
power that could prove to be the salvation or ruin of her entire
species...
In
The Company
of Others |
In The Company of Others
In search of worlds
- When humans set out to
explore the universe, they found a number of planets suitable for
colonizing. The one thing they didn't find was intelligent life. And so
the terraforming of worlds began, with eager immigrant families
temporarily housed in space stations till their new home planets were
ready.
But the technicians made one all-important mistake by
introducing the
alien Quill to worlds where they did not belong. The Quill were
supposed to be destroyed when the crews finished their work, but some
survived, multiplied, and mutated till they were no longer harmless.
They were deadly.
Suddenly mankind was in retreat, leaving colonists
stranded in space.
In the ensuing chaos many stations failed. For the survivors, the only
hope lay in finding a way to wipe out the Quill. Earth scientist, Dr.
Gail Smith thought one special human, Aaron Pardell, might hold the
answer. Found as a baby and raised by a stationer in the "Outsider"
settlement that clung to Thromberg Station, Aaron may have survived
Quill contact. Still, finding Aaron and winning his help might be the
least of Dr. Smith's problems...
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