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Suzanne Palmer is an Americanscience fiction writer known for her novelette "The Secret Life of Bots", which won aHugo Award for Best Novelette in 2018.^[1] The story also won aWSFA Small Press Award and was a finalist for theTheodore Sturgeon Award.^[2][3]

Palmer has aBachelor of Fine Arts degree from theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst.^[4] She was the head librarian of the UMass Science Fiction Society.^[1] She lives in Massachusetts, where she works as a system administrator atSmith College.^[1]

She has been publishing short fiction and poetry since 2005.^[5] She citesJohn Scalzi,Elizabeth Bear,Karl Schroeder, andMartha Wells as some of her influences and describes her primary genre as "space opera-style science fiction".^[6] She moderates the SFF room on the AbsoluteWrite forums using her online name zanzjan.^[6]

Her first full-length novel,Finder, a thriller about an interstellarrepo man, was published byDAW Books in 2019.^[4][7] She has since published three more novels in that series:Driving the Deep,The Scavenger Door, andGhostdrift.

In 2020, Palmer won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for her story "Waterlines".^[8]

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Finder Chronicles

• Palmer, Suzanne (2019).Finder (hardcover 1st ed.).DAW Books.ISBN 9780756415105.
• —— (2020).Driving the Deep (hardcover 1st ed.). DAW Books.ISBN 9780756415068.
• —— (2021).The Scavenger Door (hardcover 1st ed.). DAW Books.ISBN 9780756415150.
• —— (2024).Ghostdrift (hardcover 1st ed.). DAW Books.ISBN 9780756418878.

• "The Ins and Outs of Intergalactic Diplomacy" (2005) (published inAndromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #20)
• "He's Got Skeleteons" (2006) (published inAoife's Kiss webzine)
• "Spheres" (2006) (published inInterzone #207)
• "The Neighborly Thing" (2007) (published inAndromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #31)
• "Concession Girl" (2008) (published inInterzone #217)
• "Silence and Roses" (2009) (published inInterzone #223)
• "Zombie Cabana Boy" (2010) (published inBlack Static #17)
• "The Ceiling Is Sky" (2011) (published inInterzone #234)
• "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (2011) (published inComets and Criminals #1)
• "Surf" (2011) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "Two for the Starry Night" (2012) (published inComets and Criminals #2)
• "Adware" (2012) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "Tangerine, Nectarine, Clementine, Apocalypse" (2012) (published inInterzone #239)
• "Hotel" (2013) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "Fly Away Home" (2014) (published inInterzone #251)
• "House Party Blues" (2014) (published inBlack Static #39)
• "Shatterdown" (2014) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "Moogh and the Great Trench Kraken" (2015) (published inBeneath Ceaseless Skies #181)
• "Lazy Dog Out" (2016) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man" (2016) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "Detroit Hammersmith, Zero Gravity Toilet Repairman (Retired)" (2016) (published inAnalog Science Fiction and Fact)
• "Belong" (2016) (published inInterzone #265)
• "Number Thirty-Nine Skink" (2017) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "Books of the Risen Sea" (2017) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "The Secret Life of Bots" (2017) (published inClarkesworld Magazine #132)
• "The Streaming Man" (2018) (published inAnalog Science Fiction and Fact)
• "Stones in the Water, Cottage on the Mountain" (2018) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "R.U.R-8?" (2018) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "Thirty-Three Percent Joe" (2018) (published inClarkesworld Magazine #145)
• "Taking Icarus Home" (2019) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "The Painter of Trees" (2019) (published inClarkesworld Magazine #153)
• "Waterlines" (2019) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "Dave's Head" (2019) (published inClarkesworld Magazine #156)
• "Table Etiquette for Diplomatic Personnel, in Seventeen Scenes" (2021) (published inAsimov's Science Fiction)
• "Bots of the Lost Ark" (2021) (published inClarkesworld Magazine #177)

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Notes

• Official website
• Suzanne Palmer at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database

• Living people
• 21st-century American women writers
• Asimov's Science Fiction people
• Hugo Award–winning writers
• American women science fiction and fantasy writers

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