ELIZABETH BEAR was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Eternal Sky Trilogy, including Range of Ghosts, Shattered Pillars, and Steles of the Sky. Bear lives in Brookfield, Massachusetts.
Wrapping up Bear's complex and beautifully rendered historical-fantasy trilogy.... [F]ully realized characters whose personalities and motivations arise from the dazzlingly detailed cultures and landscapes from which they derive.... It all adds up to an eminently satisfying conclusion. Considering the trilogy as a whole, the overused term masterpiece justifiably applies. <i>Kirkus Reviews, starred review on Steles of the Sky</i></p> Bear's stellar conclusion to her Mongolian-flavored fantasy trilogy . a rich contribution to epic fantasy's expanding borders of emotion and invention. <i>Publishers Weekly, starred review on Steles of the Sky</i></p> Bear concludes the epic begun in <i>Range of Ghosts</i> with her usual subversive flair.... The world of the Eternal Sky is a gorgeously fleshed-out one, and the characters without exception fascinating, sometimes maddening, and complex. <i>Booklist on Steles of the Sky</i></p>