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aka Alis A. Rasmussen "Kate Elliott" published her first novel with DAW Books in 1992. Her Novels of the Jaran, set in a speculative future, follow the changes in the culture of the nomadic people known as the Jaran after their first contact with the technologically more advanced society of Earth. The author has described Jaran, the first in the series, as "Jane Austen meets Genghis Khan" in a science fiction setting. Jaran was on both Locus Magazine's Recommended List and VOYA's Best of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Lists for novels published in 1992. Subsequent novels in the Jaran series are The Sword of Heaven (published in two volumes) and The Law of Becoming. In addition to her science-fiction novels she is the co-author, together with writers Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson, of the bestselling fantasy novel The Golden Key, which was a 1997 World Fantasy Award finalist. She has also published short stories in the field in various anthologies. She is currently writing the epic fantasy series, Crown of Stars, set in a vaguely alternate-history European landscape. The first volume, King's Dragon, was a 1997 Nebula Award finalist for Best Novel. Subsequent novels include Prince of Dogs, The Burning Stone, Child of Flame, and The Gathering Storm. She is currently at work on the sixth and final volume, to be titled Crown of Stars. After Crown
of Stars, she will start working on a fantasy series with a working
title of Crossroads. It will be published by Tor Books in
the USA and by Orbit Books in the UK.
She earlier published four novels under her real name, Alis A. Rasmussen.
Alis Rasmussen grew up outside the thriving metropolis of Junction City, Oregon (population 2,500). No doubt the wholesome country environment led her to the joys of lurid adventure fiction. After reading The Lord of the Rings in eighth grade, she never looked back. She wrote her first novel in high school and went on to write four more before her "first" novel, The Labyrinth Gate, was published in 1988. A graduate of Mills College, in Oakland, California, Rasmussen worked at the BBC in London and at Keyboard Magazine in Cupertino, California, before becoming a full-time writer. She holds a brown belt in Shotokan karate and has experience in medieval broadsword fighting (from which she can truly say that she met her husband in a sword fight). Together with her husband Jay Silverstein, an archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerica, Rasmussen has traveled in Europe and across the United States. With their three children they have lived in Mexico, where they investigated ancient Mesoamerican cities as well as modern Mexican ones, and in Denmark, where they investigated the pastry. Currently they live in Hawaii, together with a chameleon and a furry schnauzer dog (sometimes called "the Schnazgul"). Read
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Last updated: February 2003 |
