Suzanne Palmer


Suzanne Palmer is an American science fiction writer known for her novelette "The Secret Life of Bots", which won a Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2018. The story also won a WSFA Small Press Award and was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award.
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Career

Palmer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was the head librarian of the UMass Science Fiction Society. She lives in Massachusetts, where she works as a system administrator at Smith College.
She has been publishing short fiction and poetry since 2005. She cites John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, and Martha Wells as some of her influences and describes her primary genre as "space opera-style science fiction". She moderates the SFF room on the AbsoluteWrite forums using her online name zanzjan.
Her first full-length novel, Finder, a thriller about an interstellar repo man, was published by DAW Books in 2019. She has since published three more novels in that series: Driving the Deep, The Scavenger Door, and Ghostdrift.
In 2020, Palmer won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for her story "Waterlines".

Awards

YearTitleAwardCategoryResult
2017"Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man"Eugie Award—
2018"The Secret Life of Bots"Hugo AwardNoveletteWon
2018"The Secret Life of Bots"Locus AwardNovelette
2018"The Secret Life of Bots"Theodore Sturgeon Award—
2018"The Secret Life of Bots"WSFA Small Press Award—Won
2020FinderLocus AwardFirst Novel
2020"Waterlines"Locus AwardNovella
2020"Waterlines"Theodore Sturgeon Award—Won
2020"The Painter of Trees"Theodore Sturgeon Award—
2020"The Painter of Trees"WSFA Small Press Award—-
2021Driving the DeepLocus AwardSci-fi Novel
2022"Bots of the Lost Ark"Hugo AwardNoveletteWon
2022"Bots of the Lost Ark"Locus AwardNovelette
2022"Bots of the Lost Ark"Theodore Sturgeon Award—
2023"Falling Off the Edge of the World"Locus AwardNovelette
2023"The Sadness Box"Locus AwardNovelette

Novels

Finder Chronicles
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Short fictionShort stories, unless otherwise noted.

  • "The Ins and Outs of Intergalactic Diplomacy"
  • "He's Got Skeleteons"
  • "Spheres"
  • "The Neighborly Thing"
  • "Concession Girl"
  • "Silence and Roses"
  • "Zombie Cabana Boy"
  • "The Ceiling Is Sky"
  • "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
  • "Surf"
  • "Two for the Starry Night"
  • "Adware"
  • "Tangerine, Nectarine, Clementine, Apocalypse"
  • "Hotel"
  • "Fly Away Home"
  • "House Party Blues"
  • "Shatterdown"
  • "Moogh and the Great Trench Kraken"
  • "Lazy Dog Out"
  • "Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man"
  • "Detroit Hammersmith, Zero Gravity Toilet Repairman "
  • "Belong"
  • "Number Thirty-Nine Skink"
  • "Books of the Risen Sea"
  • ""
  • "The Streaming Man"
  • "Stones in the Water, Cottage on the Mountain"
  • "R.U.R-8?"
  • "Thirty-Three Percent Joe"
  • "Taking Icarus Home"
  • "The Painter of Trees"
  • "Waterlines"
  • "Dave's Head"
  • "Table Etiquette for Diplomatic Personnel, in Seventeen Scenes"
  • ""
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