Brenda Cooper’s Biography
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 sequelsl, READING THE WIND and WINGS OF CREATION. She also has a novel collaboration with Larry Niven titled BUILDING HARLEQUIN’S MOON. Her next novel, MAYAN DECEMBER, will be out in August 2011 from Prime Books. 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.
Brenda is a member of the Futurist Board for the Lifeboat Foundation.
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.
Publications
One of my favorite shorts, “My Grandfather’s River,” has been included in this beautiful new anthology named RIVER, edited by Alma Alexander and now available via Dark Quest Books.
December special.
Mayan December is now available for only .99 cents for Kindle and Nook.
Great price. Limited time.
I have a new story in “Under the Vale,” a fabulous collection of stories set in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar.
I have a new story in “Under the Vale,” a fabulous collection of stories set in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar.
Year’s Best SF 28 Out!
My story, “My Father’s Singularity” is among many great stories in this anthology. Available widely.
In an Iron Cage now available at Amazon
This is a fun Steampunk anthology from Dark Quest Books. My story is set in the Yucatan Peninsula, between the two time-lines of Mayan December. Drop by and pick one up! This is the ebook version, a print version will be out soon as well.
“Cracking the Sky” will be out in May in the anthology “No Man’s 
Land.”
This story was inspired by a trip to the Army’s TRADOC Mad Scientist conference last year. No Man’s Land is a military science fiction anthology written entirely by women. NEWS: It can now be pre-ordered at Amazon.com.
Mayan December now available at Amazon
What do an ancient shaman, a modern-day scientist, a computer nerd in dreadlocks, and an eleven-year-old girl have in common? Join these adventurers as they traverse the Yucatan peninsula – and time itself – in a search for the meaning of life. Oh, and for jaguars.
Mayan December is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.
“The Hebras and the Demons and the Damned” picked for Year’s Best SF #16.
This is an adventure story set on Fremont, the colony planet that serves as the setting for The Silver Ship and the Sea. I loved writing this story, and I’m really happy that the Hartwell’s liked it for this anthology.
