Seth Dickinson

Seth Dickinson
EducationUniversity of Chicago
Writing career
GenreHard fantasy
Notable workThe Traitor Baru Cormorant (2015)
Websitesethdickinson.com

Seth Dickinson is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, best known for the 2015 debut novel The Traitor Baru Cormorant and its sequels The Monster Baru Cormorant and The Tyrant Baru Cormorant.

Career

Dickinson graduated from the University of Chicago. While there, in 2011, Dickinson received the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing for the short story "The Immaculate Conception of Private Ritter".[1] Dickinson has published short fiction in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others.[2]

Dickinson also writes and does narrative design for video games, including for Destiny: The Taken King and Subnautica 2.[3][4] Dickinson has also written for Magic: The Gathering.[5]

Dickinson's debut novel was The Traitor Baru Cormorant, a hard fantasy expansion of the 2011 short story "The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds" (published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies). It follows a young woman who, educated in the schools of the imperial power that colonized her homeland, sets out to gain power to subvert the empire from within.[6][7] It was published in September 2015 and was well received by critics.[8][9] It was published as The Traitor in the UK.[10] The Traitor Baru Cormorant is the first novel in Dickinson's The Masquerade series.[11] The original draft for a sequel was split into two books: The Monster Baru Cormorant, and The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, published in 2020. While the series was originally planned to be a trilogy, a fourth novel has been announced.[12]

Dickinson's fourth novel Exordia is a science fiction story which was released in January 2024. Publishers Weekly wrote: "With cool alien technology, admirably hopeful heroes, and SFF pop culture references littered throughout, this will have readers hooked."[13] Dickinson has said that the book was inspired by the LEGO Bionicle toy line, as well as novels The Andromeda Strain and Sphere by Michael Crichton.[14][15]

Bibliography

Novels

The Masquerade series

  1. The Traitor Baru Cormorant. New York: Tor. 2015. ISBN 978-0-7653-8072-2.
  2. The Monster Baru Cormorant. New York: Tor. 2018. ISBN 978-0-7653-8074-6.
  3. The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. New York: Tor. 2020. ISBN 978-0-7653-8076-0.
  4. Fourth novel, forthcoming[16]

Other novels

Short fiction

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
"The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and their Wounds" 2011 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, December 2011
"Worth of Crows" 2012 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September 2012
"Cronus and the Ships" 2013 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2013
"A Plant (Whose Name is Destroyed)" 2013 Strange Horizons, August 2013
"Never Dreaming (In Four Burns)" 2013 Clarkesworld, November 2013
"Testimony Before an Emergency Session of The Naval Cephalopod Command" 2013 Drabblecast, December 2013
"Morrigan in the Sunglare" 2014 Clarkesworld, March 2014 The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF & Space Opera, edited by David Afsharirad
"Sekhmet Hunts the Dying Gnosis: A Computation" 2014 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2014
"Kumara" 2014 Escape Pod, March 2014
"Our Fire, Given Freely" 2014 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, April 2014
"A Tank Only Fears Four Things" 2014 Lightspeed, May 2014
"Anna Saves Them All" 2014 Shimmer, September 2014
"Economies of Force" 2014 Apex Magazine, September 2014
"Wizard, Cabalist, Ascendant" 2014 Upgraded, edited by Neil Clarke, September 2014
"Three Bodies at Mitanni" 2015 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2015 The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 (2016), edited by Neil Clarke

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, edited by John Joseph Adams

The Final Frontier (2018), edited by Neil Clarke

"Please Undo this Hurt" 2015 Tor.com, September 2015
"Morrigan in Shadow" 2015 Clarkesworld, December 2015 The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015, edited by David Afsharirad
"Laws of Night and Silk" 2016 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 2016 The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume Eleven (2017), edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Final Order" 2020 From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
"Edge of Eternities"

(Gamebook story series, Magic: The Gathering tie-in fiction)[5][17]

 2025

Writing for video games

References

  1. ↑ "Past Winners". Dell Award. Archived from the original on 2015-08-29.
  2. ↑ "Seth Dickinson". Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "An Interview With Destiny Writer Seth Dickinson About Diversity In Video Games". n4g.com. Retrieved 2026-03-23.
  4. 1 2 "Discover How We Build Unknown Worlds In Subnautica 2". Unknown Worlds. 2025-06-19. Retrieved 2026-03-23.
  5. 1 2 Symon, Evan (2025-08-06). "Edge Of Eternities: An Interview with Story Author Seth Dickinson". Magic Untapped. Retrieved 2026-03-23.
  6. ↑ Jain, Sid (2021). "Seduced by the Ruler's Gaze: An Indian Perspective on Seth Dickinson's Masquerade". Uncanny Magazine. Retrieved 2026-03-23.
  7. ↑ Jaden, Andrew (2024-01-21). "An Interview with Seth Dickinson". Grimdark Magazine. Retrieved 2026-03-23.
  8. ↑ "The Traitor Baru Cormorant". Publishers Weekly. 2015-07-20. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  9. ↑ El-Mohtar, Amal (27 September 2015). "Baru Cormorant Will Catch You Unawares". NPR. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "The Traitor by Seth Dickinson". Waterstones. Retrieved 2026-03-23.
  11. ↑ "The Masquerade". Macmillan. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  12. ↑ "Seth Dickinson's Baru Cormorant Series Gets A Fourth Novel". Reactor. Tor Books. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  13. ↑ "Exordia". Publishers Weekly. 2023-10-18. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  14. ↑ Pickens, Chris (23 January 2024). "'Exordia' is one of the wildest first-contact novels you'll ever read". BookPage. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  15. ↑ Dumpleton, Elise (2024-01-23). "Q&A: Seth Dickinson, Author of 'Exordia'". The Nerd Daily. Retrieved 2026-03-23.
  16. ↑ Dickinson, Seth (2026-06-13). "Update on Baru 4". Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  17. ↑ "Edge of Eternities | Episode 1". MAGIC: THE GATHERING. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
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