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Biographies
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A.M. Dellamonica‘s first novel, Indigo Springs, won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Their fourth, A Daughter of No Nation, won the 2016 Prix Aurora. Alyx has over forty short stories and one anthology in print. Their most recent books are the solarpunk thrillers Gamechanger and Dealbreaker, written as L.X. Beckett, which take place in a near future grappling with the climate and carbon crisis.
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A.M. Dellamonica‘s first novel, Indigo Springs, won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Their fourth, A Daughter of No Nation, won the 2016 Prix Aurora. Alyx has published over forty short stories in Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed and numerous print magazines and anthologies. They were the co-editor of Heiresses of Russ 2016. Their most recent works are the solarpunk thrillers Gamechanger and Dealbreaker, written as L.X. Beckett, which take place in a near future grappling with the 21st century carbon crisis.
Alyx is married to author Kelly Robson; the two made their outlaw wedding of 1989 legal, in 2003, when the Canadian Supreme Court conferred equality on same sex couples.
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A.M. Dellamonica‘s first novel, Indigo Springs, won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Their fourth, A Daughter of No Nation, has won the 2016 Prix Aurora. They are the author of over forty short stories in a variety of genres; these can be found on Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed and in numerous print magazines and anthologies, most recently Beneath Ceaseless Skies. They were co-editor of Heiresses of Russ 2016 and for 15 years taught writing in person at UTSC and via the the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Their most recent works are the solarpunk thrillers Gamechanger and Dealbreaker, written as L.X. Beckett, which take place in a near future grappling with the 21st century carbon crisis.
Alyx is married to fellow Aurora winner Kelly Robson; the two were able to make their outlaw wedding of 1989 legal, in 2003, when the Canadian Supreme Court conferred full equality on same sex couples.
Dellamonica tells people they are bigendered, bisexual and bisectional. (The latter means they sing both alto and soprano.) Their website is at http://alyxdellamonica.com.
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Praise for Child of a Hidden Sea
“…the writing that surrounds Sophie’s voice often has the muscular precision that I associate with Elizabeth Bear’s prose, and in parts I found myself reminded of some of Guy Gavriel Kay’s work.” Amal El-Mohtar, NPR
“Dellamonica’s tale is one of intrigue and power struggles, jealousy and competition, culture shock and the alienation of discovering your family is not what they thought.” – Marie Brennan
“Dellamonica plunges us into a magical world that is rich with details both fantastic and ecological. A fast-paced adventure-mystery that had me reading long into the night.” – Hiromi Goto
Praise for A.M. Dellamonica
“… delivers a powerful story of good intentions gone terribly wrong and introduces a promising new voice that brings a fresh vision to the genre.” Library Journal
“A psychologically astute, highly original debut–complex, eerie, and utterly believable.”
