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Karen Joy Fowler is the author of several novels and short story collections. Her works include Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, Sister Noon, and The Jane Austen Book Club. She has received numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award in 1999 for Black Glass, the World Fantasy Award in 2011 for What I Didn't See, and the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. This same title was nominated for The Man Booker Prize for Best Novel in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Jane Austen Book Club… (more)
The Jane Austen Book Club 6,256 copies, 191 reviews
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 3,501 copies, 235 reviews
Sarah Canary 732 copies, 23 reviews
Wit's End 462 copies, 25 reviews
Booth 415 copies, 26 reviews
Sister Noon 282 copies, 5 reviews
The Sweetheart Season 245 copies, 7 reviews
What I Didn't See: Stories 222 copies, 9 reviews
Black Glass : Short Fictions 208 copies, 6 reviews
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip… (Editor; Contributor; Introduction) 172 copies, 5 reviews
Artificial Things 164 copies, 2 reviews
The Science of Herself Plus ... 71 copies, 5 reviews
Always [short story] 9 copies, 2 reviews
Private Grave 9 (Author) 5 copies
King Rat 4 copies
Lieserl 4 copies
Mota 2002 Truth: An Annual Anthology of Fine Fiction (Editor; Introduction; Introduction) 2 copies
Heartland [short story] 2 copies, 1 review
2007 1 copy
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Introduction, some editions) 3,758 copies, 27 reviews
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (Contributor) 1,435 copies, 19 reviews
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (Introduction) 874 copies, 51 reviews
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (Contributor) 750 copies, 19 reviews
Women Who Read Are Dangerous (Foreword, some editions) 599 copies, 11 reviews
Black Swan, White Raven (Contributor) 565 copies, 6 reviews
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (Contributor) 418 copies, 7 reviews
The Big Book of Science Fiction (Contributor) 369 copies, 6 reviews
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (Contributor) 299 copies, 14 reviews
Happily Ever After (Contributor) 285 copies, 2 reviews
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (Contributor) 220 copies, 11 reviews
Alternate Empires (What Might Have Been, Vol. 1) (Contributor) 205 copies, 3 reviews
Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold (Contributor) 203 copies, 4 reviews
Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (Contributor) 194 copies, 2 reviews
The Secret History of Science Fiction (Contributor) 192 copies, 6 reviews
Year's Best SF 13 (Contributor) 184 copies, 4 reviews
Trampoline: An Anthology (Contributor) 164 copies, 3 reviews
Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales (Contributor) 160 copies, 4 reviews
Full Spectrum 3 (Contributor) 159 copies
Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributor) 156 copies, 4 reviews
The Jane Austen Book Club [2007 film] (Original novel) 152 copies, 4 reviews
Vanishing Acts: A Science Fiction Anthology (Contributor) 145 copies, 1 review
Future on Ice (Contributor) 141 copies, 1 review
Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn (Contributor) 140 copies, 1 review
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (Contributor, some editions) 132 copies, 4 reviews
Alien Contact (Contributor) 121 copies, 3 reviews
Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn: Volume 2 (Contributor) 120 copies, 1 review
Wicked Wonders (Introduction) 119 copies, 10 reviews
The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (Contributor) 105 copies, 4 reviews
The Best of Crank! (Author) 98 copies, 1 review
Nebula Awards 33 (Contributor) 95 copies, 1 review
Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 (Contributor) 89 copies, 8 reviews
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (Contributor) 83 copies, 1 review
Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (Contributor) 80 copies
Full Spectrum 5 (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review
In the Field of Fire (Contributor) 66 copies
The Best of Subterranean (Contributor) 64 copies, 6 reviews
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition (Contributor) 62 copies, 2 reviews
The Apes of Wrath (Contributor) 60 copies, 2 reviews
Attack of the Jazz Giants: and Other Stories (Introduction) 58 copies, 1 review
Collected Stories (Introduction) 58 copies, 3 reviews
Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 2 (Contributor) 56 copies
Skin of the Soul (Contributor) 53 copies, 1 review
Interzone: The 3rd Anthology (Contributor) 49 copies, 1 review
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings (Contributor) 49 copies, 2 reviews
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (Contributor) 49 copies
Powers: Secret Histories: A Bibliography (Contributor) 43 copies, 1 review
The Unicorn Anthology (Contributor) 40 copies, 4 reviews
Crucified Dreams (Contributor) 38 copies
And the Angels Sing: Stories (Foreword) 34 copies
The Great Silence (Foreword, some editions; Introduction) 32 copies, 2 reviews
Terminal Visions (Foreword) 25 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy (Contributor) 24 copies, 3 reviews
Interzone: The 5th Anthology (Contributor) 22 copies, 1 review
Isaac Asimov's Robots (Contributor) 22 copies
Thief of Lives (Introduction, some editions) 21 copies, 2 reviews
Letters from Home (Author) 20 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 34 • March 2013 (Contributor) 17 copies, 2 reviews
Because I Love Her (Contributor) 14 copies
We, Robots (Contributor) 14 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 22 • March 2012 (Contributor) 10 copies, 1 review
I mondi del possibile (Contributor) 7 copies
Spirits Unwrapped (Contributor) 7 copies
Wassermans Roboter (Contributor) 6 copies
Interzone 042 (Contributor) 5 copies, 1 review
Futurs tous azimuts (Contributor) 5 copies
Subterranean Magazine Winter 2014 (Contributor) 5 copies
Papa Godzilla (Contributor) 4 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 109 (June 2019) (Contributor) 4 copies, 1 review
StarShipSofa Stories Volume 3 (Contributor) 4 copies
Interzone 023 (Contributor) 4 copies, 1 review
Territoires de l'inquiétude. 7 (Contributor) 3 copies
Omni Magazine November 1989 (Contributor) 2 copies
Die Sterne sind weiblich (Contributor) 2 copies
Subterranean Magazine Summer 2011 (Contributor) 2 copies
Das Blei der Zeit (Contributor) 1 copy
Millemondi Inverno 1992 (Contributor) 1 copy
Locus Nr.492 2002.01 (Contributor) 1 copy

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