Kameron Hurley is an award-winning author and advertising
copywriter. Hurley grew up in Washington State, and has lived in
Fairbanks, Alaska; Durban, South Africa; and Chicago. She has a
degree in historical studies from the University of Alaska and a
Master's in History from theUniversity of Kwa-Zulu Natal,
specializing in the history of South African resistance
movements.
Her essay on the history of women in conflict"We Have Always
Fought"was the first blog post towin aHugo Award. It was also
nominated for Best Non-Fiction work by the British Fantasy
Society.
Hurley is the author ofGod's War,Infidel,andRapture,a
science-fantasy noir series which earned her the Sydney J. Bounds
Award for Best Newcomer and the Kitschy Award for Best Debut Novel.
Her latest novel,The Mirror Empireis published by Angry Robot
Books. and the sequel,Empire Ascendant,will be out in October 2015.
Her first space opera,The Stars are Legion,will be published from
Simon and Schuster's Saga imprint in fall of 2016.
She has won the Hugo Award twice, andbeen a finalist for the Arthur
C. Clarke Award, Nebula Award, the Locus Award and the BSFA Award
for Best Novel. Additionally, her work has been included on the
Tiptree Award Honor List and been long-listed for the Gemmell
Morningstar Award.
“It’s epic in the truest sense of the world, and fantastic in
a completely original and inventive way…I read all 400-odd
pages in about 12 hours, ignoring all else. My guess is
you will too.”
—Ysabeau Wilce for Locus
“Kameron Hurley warned us all on twitter that Terrible Things would
befall the characters introduced in The Mirror Empire, and she did
not lie. But she also didn’t give the whole truth. Empire Ascendant
is a deeply complicated book. Yes, it is dark and brutal. But it is
also almost bizarrely hopeful.”
—B.R. Sanders, author of Ariah
“Empire Ascendant is a masterful addition to the epic fantasy
genre.”
—Borrowed Worlds
“Hurley is clearly genius.”
—Joe’s Geek Fest
“Recommended for fans of Game of Thrones and The Emperor’s Blades.
Intricate, unforgiving, and fascinating.”
—Libromancer’s Apprentice
“Hurley has put together something very special. There are complex
characters. There’s a believable, if broken world. There’s a plot
which will absolutely knock your socks off, if you’re prepared to
let it. But it’s also a book willing to explore more deeply, to
challenge reader preconceptions and expectations, to ask the reader
to invest themselves, and willing to repay that investment in a
mixture of enlightenment and blood. That depth, and that narrative
bravery, makes Empire Ascendant not just a very good fantasy novel,
but a great one – and one very highly recommended.”
—SF and F Reviews
“[Kameron Hurley] stated on twitter that this is to the first
book what Empire Strikes Back is toStar Wars, but I feel she sells
herself short. This book, in how it grows the themes of The Mirror
Empire and builds them to dizzying, breathtaking heights is more of
a Godfather Part II. Everything about it is better, greater,
grander than what came before.”
—View from Ascraeus
“This series just keeps getting better. It’s one of the most
complex sci-fi series I’ve read yet I quickly got back into its
worlds. Should you read it? If you love digging deep into worlds
and relationships among divergent people, as well as exploring what
makes people tick, then I think you’ll really like this
series.”
—Popcorn Reads
“There is something about picking up the second in a series. You
already know you like the concept or you wouldn’t bother to
continue, but this time it’s different. The story has to hold up
not only to its internal standard but to your memories of the first
book and it takes a skilled author to manage that. Luckily
Kameron Hurley counts as a skilled author and in Empire Ascendant
she unravels the story into something even bigger without once
dropping the thread.”
—Nerd Underground
“Although this is a second (or middle) book, things actually happen
here. With the world, the scenario, and the characters already
established, Hurley is free to focus on the action – and she
delivers that in spades. This is a fast-paced tale that carries a
sense of urgency from page one.”
—The Speculative Herald
“Read this book. Well, start with book one The Mirror Empire and
then once you’ve been sucked into this ‘verse go read this one…I
was totally immersed in this story.”
—Susan Hated Literature
“With the world, the scenario, and the characters already
established, Hurley is free to focus on the action – and she
delivers that in spades. This is a fast-paced tale that carries a
sense of urgency from page one. You can feel the tension oozing off
the page as the characters clash, cultures collide, and worlds
approach an end. The plot develops as much, if not more so, than in
the first book – and not always in ways you’d expect. There are
twists and turns to the tale that even the most jaded readers won’t
see coming, as the story careens downhill towards an uncomfortable
precipice.”
—Beauty in Ruins
“If you’re a fan of intense fantasy with an impressive death toll,
Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley is the book for you.”
—Knitter Nerd
“I have become a Kameron Hurley… fangirl? Devotee? Acolyte? I’ll
say this to those who already read The Mirror
Empire: Yes, you want to read this too, and no, you will
not be disappointed.”
—Fat Robot
Praise for the Worldbreaker Saga and Kameron Hurley:
"Hurley reuses old tropes to excellent effect, interweaving
them with original elements to create a world that will fascinate
and delight her established fans and appeal to newcomers. Readers
will blaze through this opening installment and eagerly await the
promised sequel."
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"This is a hugely ambitious work, bloody and violent, with
interestingly gender-flipped politics and a host of factions to
keep straight, as points of view switch often. Although it is a
challenging read, the strong narrative thread in this new series
from Hurley (God's War) pulls readers through the imaginative
tangle of multiple worlds and histories colliding."
—Library Journal (Starred Review)
“Kameron Hurley is ferociously imaginative – with the
emphasis on the ferocious. She writes novels that are smart, dark,
visceral and wonderfully, hectically entertaining.”
—Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls
"With vividly inventive world building and a fast-paced plot, The
Mirror Empire opens a smart, brutal, and ambitious epic fantasy
series. Book two is already on my must-read list."
—Kate Elliott, author of the Spiritwalker Trilogy
"There's a powerful yet elegant brutality in The Mirror Empire that
serves notice to traditional epic fantasy: move over, make way, an
intoxicating new blend of storytelling has arrived. These are pages
that will command your attention."
—Bradley P. Beaulieu, author of The Lays of
Anuskaya trilogy
"The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I’ve read in a
long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons
of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas
and finely-drawn characters."
—Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gemmel Legend Finalist and author of The
Shadows of the Apt series
“Kameron Hurley’s writing is the most exciting thing I’ve seen on
the genre page… What Hurley’s writing has (and it’s something not
one in a dozen genre practitioners seems able to generate) is
passion. It doesn’t hurt that there’s also a rare freshness to the
material, and a heady dash of high octane noir worked into the
mix.”
—Richard K. Morgan, author of The Steel Remains and the Takeshi
Kovacs novels
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