Brenda Cooper

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Brenda Cooper (born August 12, 1960) is an author and futurist^[1] who resides in Kirkland, Washington,^[2] where she is the Chief Information Officer of the city of Kirkland.^[3][4] She has co-written various short stories with Larry Niven and has written ten novels.^[5]

Brenda was educated at California State University, Fullerton, where she earned a BA in Management Information Systems. She is also pursuing an MFA at StoneCoast, a program of the University of Southern Maine.

Brenda lives in Woodinville, Washington with her family and three dogs.^[6]

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• Building Harlequin's Moon, (2005)^[7] written with Larry Niven.
• Mayan December. Vol. e–book. Prime Books. 2011. ISBN 978-1-60701-307-5.
• POST. eSpec. 2017. ISBN 978-1942990222.

Silver Ship series

1. The Silver Ship and the Sea. Tor Science Fiction. July 1, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7653-5509-6.
2. Reading the Wind (1st ed.). Tor Books. July 22, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7653-1598-4.
3. Wings of Creation. Vol. 1st Edition. Tor Books. November 10, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7653-2095-7.

Ruby's Song

1. The Creative Fire. Vol. 1st Edition. Pyr. November 6, 2012. ISBN 978-1616146849.
2. The Diamond Deep (2013)

The Glittering Edge (sequels to Ruby's Song)

1. Edge of dark. Pyr. 2015.
2. Spear of Light. Vol. 1st Edition. Pyr. 2016. ISBN 978-1633881341.

Stories^[8]

• "Paper of Elephants". Clarkesworld Magazine. October 2021.
• "Callme and Mink". Clarkesworld Magazine. October 2020.
• Brin, David, ed. (January 10, 2017). "Street Life in the Emerald City". Chasing Shadows. Tor Books. pp. 196–207. ISBN 978-0765382580.
• McPhail, Mike, ed. (December 18, 2016). "Along the Northern Border". Defending the Future. eSpec Books. ASIN B01MU2H4BC.
• Schvartsman, Alex, ed. (November 24, 2016). "The Hand on the Cradle". Humanity 2.0. Phoenix Pick. ISBN 978-1612423098.
• Schmidt, Brian Thomas, ed. (November 3, 2015). "Iron Pegasus". Mission Tomorrow. Baen. ISBN 978-1476780948.
• "Star of Humanity". Cracking the Sky. Fairwood Press. April 22, 2015. ISBN 978-1933846507.
• "Entropy and Emergence". Cracking the Sky. Fairwood Press. April 22, 2015. ISBN 978-1933846507.
• Cooper, Brenda (May 2010). Henry Gee (ed.). "Mind Expeditions". Nature. 465 (7296): 390. Bibcode:2010Natur.465..390C. doi:10.1038/465390a. S2CID 4399169.^[9]
• Cooper, Brenda (December 2011). "Tea with Jillian". Nature. 480 (7378): 578. Bibcode:2011Natur.480..578C. doi:10.1038/480578a. S2CID 4428578.
• "Star of Humanity". Fairwood Press. August 2015.
• Sheila Williams, ed. (September 2015). "Biology at the End of the World". Asimov's Science Fiction.
• "My Father's Singularity". Clarkesworld Magazine. June 2010.
• "The War of the Flowers". Strange Horizons. January 2004.^[9]

• "Visitors". 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• "Extinction". 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• "The Multiple Universe Poems". September 2009. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• "Raising Horses in the Rain". Spring 2001. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Edge of dark

• Sakers, Don (June 2015). "The Reference Library". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (6): 105–108.

Endeavor Award

• The Silver Ship and the Sea (Distinguished Novel or Collection, 2008)^[10][11]
• Edge of Dark (Distinguished Novel or Collection, 2016)^[10][11]

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