Kaaron Warren
Australian writer
Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.
She is the author of the short story collections Through Splintered Walls, The Grinding House, and Dead Sea Fruit. Her short stories have won Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards and Aurealis Awards.
Her six novels are Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification (published by Angry Robot), The Grief Hole, Tide of Stone, and The Underhistory.
Kaaron was Special Guest at the 2013 Australian National Science Fiction Convention.
Bibliography
Novels
Slights (Angry Robot, July 2009 [UK, Australia]/September 2010 [US/rest of world]) ISBN 978-0-85766-007-7 (US)
Walking the Tree (Angry Robot, February 2010 [UK/Australia]/January 2011 [US/rest of world]) ISBN 978-0-85766-043-5 (US)
Mistification (Angry Robot, June 2011 [UK, Australia]/July 2011 [US/rest of world) ISBN 978-0-85766-108-1 (UK), ISBN 978-0-85766-109-8 (US)
The Grief Hole (IFWG Publishing Australia, August 2016 [Worldwide-Hardcover August 2016] ISBN 978-1-925496-05-5, [Worldwide -Trade paperback August 2016] ISBN 978-1-925496-04-8)
Tide of Stone (Omnium Gatherum Media, April 2018) ISBN 978-0615827995
The Underhistory (Viper, April 2024) ISBN 9781800812024
Contributed chapters
In: Sherlock Holmes: the Australian casebook: all new Holmes stories (Victoria Echo, a division of Bonnier Publishing Australia, November 2017) ISBN 9781760404673
In: Evil is a matter of perspective: an anthology of antagonists (Grimdark Magazine, April 2017) ISBN 9780648010562
Collections
The Gate Theory (Cohesion Press, 2013)
Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press, 2012)
The Grinding House (CSFG Publishing, 2005) ISBN 0-9581390-3-2
Dead Sea Fruit (Ticonderoga Publications, 2010)
Short fiction
"White Bed" (1993) in Shrieks
"The Blue Stream" (1994) in Aurealis No. 14 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser)
"The Salamander" (1994) in Don't Cross the Water and Other Warnings
"Summer Coming" (1994) in Narcissus Magazine No. 10
"The Wrong Seat" (1994) in Calling Up the Devil and Associated Misdemeanours
"The First Interview" (1995) in UQ Social Alternatives Magazine, Volume 14, No. 3
"Loud Music" (1995) in Spies, Lies and Watching Eyes
"The Paper Room" (1995) in Going Down Swinging No.
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