Susan Shwartz

American author (born 1949)

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Susan Shwartz
Born	(1949-12-31) December 31, 1949 (age 74)
Education	Mount Holyoke College (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Occupation	Author

Susan Shwartz (born December 31, 1949) is an American author.^[1]

Education and career

She received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 and a PhD in English from Harvard University.^[1]

Shwartz's Heirs to Byzantium trilogy – Byzantium's Crown (1987), The Woman of Flowers (1987) and Queensblade (1988) is an alternate history series. The Heirs to Byzantium novels are set in a world where Marc Antony defeats Octavius in the Battle of Actium, and joins with Cleopatra to make Byzantium capital of the Roman Empire.^[1]

Shwartz's novel The Grail of Hearts (1992) is a fantasy that features the Holy Grail. It also features a sympathetic version of Kundry from Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal; Shwart's Kundry is depicted as a version of the Wandering Jew.^[1]

Shwartz has published several novels and sixty short stories.

Works

Novels

The Woman of Flowers (1987)
Byzantium's Crown (1987)
Silk Roads and Shadows (1988)
Queensblade (1988)
Arabesques: More Tales of the Arabian Nights (1988)
Heritage of Flight (1989)
Imperial Lady (1989) with Andre Norton
Arabesques II (1989)
The Grail of Hearts (1991)
Empire of the Eagle (1993) with Andre Norton. Historical novel about a group of Romans who flee the Battle of Carrhae and travel to India and China.^[2]
Shards of Empire (1996)
Cross and Crescent (1997)
Second Chances (2001)
Hostile Takeover (2004)

She has also collaborated with science fiction writer (and fellow Mount Holyoke alumna) Judith Tarr on the following works:

S.M. Stirling – Blood Feuds (1993) (with Judith Tarr and Susan Shwartz and Harry Turtledove (Part of the "War World" sub-series in the "Co-dominium" series, originally created by Jerry Pournelle) and Blood Vengeance (1994) (with Susan Shwartz and Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove and Jerry Pournelle (Also part of the "War World" sub-series)
CoDominium – Blood Feuds (1992) Susan Shwartz, S.M. Stirling, Judith Tarr, and Harry Turtledove and Blood Vengeance (1994) Susan Shwartz, S.M. Stirling, Judith Tarr, and Harry Turtledove.

Star Trek novels

All co-written with Josepha Sherman

Vulcan's Forge (1997)
Vulcan's Heart (1999)
Exodus: Vulcan's Soul Book One (2004)
Exiles: Vulcan's Soul Trilogy Book Two (2006)
Epiphany: Vulcan's Soul Trilogy Book Three (2007)

Short-stories

Suppose They Gave a Peace... (1992) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Presidents)
And the Glory of Them (2002) (collected in Harry Turtledove's alternate history anthology Alternate Generals II)

Awards

Winner

1996 – San Francisco Chronicle Award for Best Novella
1995 (with Mike Resnick) – HOMer Award for Best Novella^[3]
1993 – San Francisco Chronicle Award for Best Novelette

Nominated

1995: Nebula Award for Best Novella
1993: Hugo Award for Best Novelette
1992, 1991, 1990: Nebula Award for Best Novelette
1989: Philip K. Dick Award
1987: Nebula Award for Best Short Story

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d King, T. Jackson. "SFC Interview: Susan Shwartz". Science Fiction Chronicle 16(7): 5, (pp. 30-33). June/July 1995.
^ "Empire of the Eagle by Andre Norton and Susan Shwartz starts with more Roman legionaries who survive the Carrhae disaster and then fight their way through India on to China..." Hawking, James. ""Roman History Through A Hundred Novels". Historical Novel Society. Spring 1997. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
^ HOMer Award nominations