Let your imagination run freely into the future, accompanied by curiosity and hope.
Brenda is a technology professional, a science fiction writer and a futurist.
Brenda’s fiction has appeared in Nature, Analog, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, The Salal Review, and multiple anthologies. Brenda has three novels out with Tor books: THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, its sequel, READING THE WIND, and a collaboration with Larry Niven titled BUILDING HARLEQUIN’S MOON. Her next novel, WINGS OF CREATION, will be out in November, 2009. Brenda is represented by Eleanor Wood at the Spectrum Literary Agency.
As a futurist, she has worked with Glen Hiemstra for over ten years. Brenda gives talks about the future, technology, and writing. She blogs regularly at http://www.brenda-cooper.com and periodically guest-blogs at Futurist.com and other venues.
As a technology professional, Brenda started out in Aerospace, where she worked on some of the early efforts to apply knowledge engineering to the field. She is currently CIO of the City of Kirkland, Washington.
Brenda was educated at California State University, Fullerton, where she earned a BA in Management Information Systems. She lives in Bellevue, Washington with her partner, Toni Cramer, Toni’s daughter Katie, and two dogs. She has an adult son, David Cooper, a firefighter/paramedic with Cowlitz 2 Fire and Rescue.
"Brenda Cooper's newest novel is a feast of character and concept. She depicts the devastation of war on microcosmic and macrocosmic levels, and even more so, the driving motives of young men and women caught in deadly conflict. Cooper is a master explorer of the interaction of society and individuals. She probes the psychology of her genetically enhanced characters with both rare depth and fidelity to scientific plausibility. Moral conundrums drive the plot in this unforgettable narrative. Don't miss this compelling work by a major new talent."
- Mary A. Turzillo, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl.
"Brenda Cooper tells a tale of a powerful brother and sister in a fight for their lives, offering insights along the way into the nature of courage and the hunger for community that burns in every human being. This is a lively book, full of colorful images and a memorable cast of human and animal characters, a worthy successor to The Silver Ship and the Sea."
- Louise Marley
"The first solo novel by Larry Niven's Building Harlequin's Moon (2005) coauthor portrays the thoroughly
convincing human colonial society on Fremont, a dangerous planet rife with vicious predators, frequent earthquakes,
and falling meteors....Distinctive characterizations, well-limned interrelationships, and the
vividly realized Fremont contribute to an exciting coming-of-age story with a strong message about the evils of prejudice."
- Sally Estes, Copyright American Library Association.
Mass Market Paperback, July 2008. Included by Booklist as a "Best Adult Book for Young Adults."
"Fans of both hard and softer, psychological SF will welcome veteran Niven and newcome Cooper's well-written tale of a 60,000 year layover in space, in which physical challenges of world building are matched by the social challenges of collaboration among disparate groups." - Publisher's Weekly
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I am a writer, public speaker, and a futurist. I'm interested in how new
technologies might change us and our world, particularly for the better, and in global warming.
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