Emma Bull Books In Order

Novels

  1. Falcon (1985)
  2. War for the Oaks (1987)
  3. Bone Dance (1991)
  4. Finder (1994)
  5. The Princess and the Lord of Night (1994)
  6. Freedom and Necessity (1997)
  7. Territory (2007)

Collections

  1. Double Feature (1994)
  2. And Other Stories (2012)

Plays

  1. Nightspeeder (2004)
  2. War for the Oaks: The Screenplay (2004)

Anthology series

  1. Liavek (1985)
  2. The Players of Luck (1986)
  3. Wizard’s Row (1987)
  4. Spells of Binding (1988)
  5. Festival Week (1990)
  6. Shadow Unit 1 (2011)
  7. Shadow Unit 2 (2011)
  8. Shadow Unit 3 (2011)
  9. Shadow Unit 4 (2011)
  10. Shadow Unit 5 (2011)
  11. Shadow Unit 6 (2011)
  12. Shadow Unit 7 (2011)
  13. Shadow Unit 8 (2011)
  14. Shadow Unit 9 (2011)
  15. Shadow Unit 10 (2011)
  16. Shadow Unit 11 (2012)
  17. Shadow Unit 12 (2012)
  18. Shadow Unit 13 (2013)
  19. Shadow Unit 14 (2014)
  20. Shadow Unit 15 (2014)

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Emma Bull Books Overview

Falcon

When his home planet is besieged by agents of the Central Worlds Concorde, star pilot Niki Falcon resumes taking the deadly drug that is the source of his power and must choose between saving his planet and destroying himself. Reissue.

War for the Oaks

Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fantasy. Eddi McCandry sings rock and roll. But her boyfriend just dumped her, her band just broke up, and life could hardly be worse. Then, walking home through downtown Minneapolis on a dark night, she finds herself drafted into an invisible war between the faerie folk. Now, more than her own survival is at risk and her own preferences, musical and personal, are very much beside the point. By turns tough and lyrical, fabulous and down to earth, War for the Oaks is a fantasy novel that s as much about this world as about the other one. It s about real love and loyalty, about real music and musicians, about false glamour and true art. It will change the way you hear and see your own daily life.

Bone Dance

Sparrow’s my name. Trader. Deal maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horseme*n the mind control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between the Americas. That s the prize I m after. But it seems I m having trouble controlling my own mind. The Horseme*n are coming.

Finder

American Library Association Best Books for Young AdultsVOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & HorrorWelcome to Bordertown. A hybrid community of misfits, oddballs and runaways. Where humans, elves and halflings co exist. Where magic and the brutal realities of survival clash and mix. For Orient and Tick Tick, it’s just home. Death and dark magic hang ov er the city. A seductive new drug lures young runaways to their destruction. A mysterious plague spreads through the streets. And beneath the clock tower on High Street, Bonnie Prince Charlie lies slain by an unseen hand. A cop named Sunny Rico exploits Orient’s talent for finding objects to track the killer and leads both herself and him into the darker secrets of Elflands’ immigrant citizens.

Freedom and Necessity

It is 1849. Across Europe, the high tide of revolution has crested, leaving recrimination and betrayal in its wake. From the high councils of Prussia to the corridors of Parliament, the powers that be breathe sighs of relief. But the powers that be are hardly unified among themselves. Far from it…
On the south coast of England, London man about town James Cobham comes to himself in a country inn, with no idea how he got there. Corresponding with his cousin, he discovers himself to have been presumed drowned in a boating accident. Together they decide that he should stay put for the moment, while they investigate what may have transpired. For James Cobham is a wanted man wanted by conspiring factions of the government and the Chartists alike, and also the target of a magical conspiracy inside his own family. And so the adventure begins…
leading the reader through every corner of mid nineteenth century Britain, from the parlors of the elite to the dens of the underclass. Not since Wilkie Collins or Conan Doyle has there been such a profusion of guns, swordfights, family intrigues, women disguised as men, occult societies, philosophical discussions, and, of course, passionate romance. Nor could any writing team but Steven Brust and Emma Bull make it quite so much fun…

Territory

Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.

You think you know the story. You don t.

Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.

Above the ground, power is also about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends’ strength to strengthen himself, and can place them between him and danger. The one with the most friends stands to win the Territory.

Jesse Fox left his Eastern college education to travel West, where he’s made some decidedly odd friends, like the physician Chow Lung, who insists that Jesse has a talent for magic. In Tombstone, Jesse meets the tubercular Doc Holliday, whose inner magic is as suppressed as his own, but whose power is enough to attract the sorcerous attention of Wyatt Earp.

Mildred Benjamin is a young widow making her living as a newspaper typesetter, and unbeknownst to the other ladies of Tombstone selling tales of Western derring do to the magazines back East. Like Jesse, Mildred has episodes of seeing things that can t possibly be there.

When a failed stage holdup results in two dead, Tombstone explodes with speculation about who attempted the robbery. The truth could destroy Earp’s plans for wealth and glory, and he’ll do anything to bury it. Meanwhile, outlaw leader John Ringo wants the same turf as Earp. Each courts Jesse as an ally, and tries to isolate him by endangering his friends, as they struggle for magical dominance of the Territory.

Events are building toward the shootout of which you may have heard. But you haven’t heard the whole, secret story until you’ve read Emma Bull’s unique take on an American legend, in which absolutely nothing is as it seems…

Double Feature

This trade paperback reprint of the Boskone 31 Book contains 13 pieces of fiction, non fiction, and poetry plus brief biographies and bibligoraphies of each author and an introduction by Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Cover Art by Nick Jainschigg.

Nightspeeder

Nightspeeder follows the adventures of starship pilot Finn and her holographic navigator as they carry 4,000 emigrating humans through hyperspace to a new colony. Endangering the trip are a mysterious being known only as YAMA, and the RAKASHAS, evil entities from beyond space who attempt to keep Finn trapped in hyperspace. Emma Bull and Will Shetterly write novels, short stories, screenplays, comic books, poetry and essays. Emma was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award for Bone Dance. Will won the Minnesota Book Award for Elsewhere. In film and television, thousands of fine scripts by established writers are never produced. The Black Coat Script Library is dedicated to presenting some of those scripts.

War for the Oaks: The Screenplay

Eddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself drafted against her will in a faerie war between the Summer and Winter Courts, the WAR FOR THE OAKS. While trying to cope with her new otherworldly bodyguyard, the Pooka, Eddi also struggles to build a new life, a new band, survive the schemes of the Queen of Air and Darkness and discover the magic that is truly her own. Emma Bull and Will Shetterly write novels, short stories, screenplays, comic books, poetry and essays. Emma was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award for Bone Dance. Will won the Minnesota Book Award for Elsewhere. In film and television, thousands of fine scripts by established writers are never produced. The Black Coat Script Library is dedicated to presenting some of those scripts.

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