Marie Brennan


Marie Brennan is the pseudonym of Bryn Neuenschwander, an American fantasy author. Her works include the Doppelganger duology ; the Onyx Court series; the Memoirs of Lady Trent series; and numerous short stories. She won the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Poem for her poem "A War of Words".
The first of the Onyx Court novels, Midnight Never Come, published on May 1, 2008 in the United Kingdom, and June 1, 2008 in the United States, received a four star-review from SFX. The Lady Trent series was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2018.
As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Neuenschwander served as co-chair of the Harvard–Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. After graduating from Harvard, she pursued graduate studies at Indiana University Bloomington, studying folklore and anthropology; in 2008 she left graduate school without completing her PhD in order to pursue writing full-time.

Novels

''Doppelganger''

  • Doppelganger
  • ''Warrior and Witch''

    ''Onyx Court''

  • In London's Shadow
  1. Midnight Never Come
  2. In Ashes Lie
  3. A Star Shall Fall
  4. ''With Fate Conspire''

    ''Memoirs of Lady Trent''

  5. A Natural History of Dragons
  6. The Tropic of Serpents
  7. Voyage of the Basilisk
  8. In the Labyrinth of Drakes
  9. Within the Sanctuary of Wings
  • "From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review"
  • "On the Impurity of Dragon-kind"
  • Turning Darkness into Light
  • "The Long Fall"

    ''The Rook and Rose Trilogy''

  1. The Mask of Mirrors
  2. The Liar's Knot
  3. ''Labyrinth's Heart''

    Driftwood

Framework, 1 new story, and short stories freely available on Web except Into the Wind:
  1. Driftwood
  2. A Heretic By Degrees
  3. Into the Wind
  4. The Ascent of Unreason
  5. Remembering Light
  6. Smiling at the End of the World
  7. ''The God of Driftwood''

    Novellas

''Varekai''

  1. "Cold-Forged Flame"
  2. "Lightning in the Blood"

    Short stories

  • White Shadow
  • The Princess and the...
  • Silence, Before the Horn
  • Shadows' Bride
  • The Twa Corbies
  • For the Fairest
  • Sing for Me
  • The Wood, the Bridge, the House
  • Such as Dreams Are Made Of
  • Execution Morning
  • A Thousand Souls
  • But Who Shall Lead the Dance?
  • Selection
  • Nine Sketches, in Charcoal and Blood
  • Lost Soul
  • Kiss of Life
  • Never After: Twelve Tales
  • Beggar's Blessing
  • The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe
  • A Mask of Flesh
  • Once a Goddess
  • ''The Gospel of Nachash''

    Articles

  • Mesoamerican Calendars
  • The Logic of Sacrifice
  • Bull-Leaping in Bronze Age Crete
  • Ireland's Ancient Code
  • ''That Fairy-Tale Feel: A Folkloric Approach to Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel''