Sharon Lee
Author
Waterville, ME, USA
Biography:
Sharon Lee's first science fiction story, "A Matter of Ceremony," appeared in the May 1980 issue of Amazing Stories. In the decades since, with her late partner, Steve Miller, she authored more than 100 novels and shorter works.
Lee and Miller's best-known creation is their genre-bending Liaden Universe®, a vast, multi-cultural space opera setting featuring traders, scouts, long-lived alien "Turtles," independent logics, furry empaths, psionics, gamblers, thieves, and persons of grace, goodwill, and really phenomenal luck. Or, as it says on the card: "Welcome to the Liaden Universe®, where honor, wit, and true love are potent weapons against deceit and treachery."
Lee and Miller's work reflects their core, shared philosophies - that fiction ought to be fun, both the reading and the writing of it; and that we're all better when we help each other.
Early influences on Lee and Miller of course include Robert Heinlein, as well as Georgette Heyer, classic "Star Trek," Isaac Asimov, "The Man from U.N.C.L.E," Dorothy Sayers, "The Twilight Zone," E. E. "Doc" Smith, classic "Avengers," Anne McCaffrey, "Rocky and Bullwinkle," James Thurber, "Get Smart," C. J. Cherryh, and "Captain Kangaroo," among others.
During their long and storied career, Lee and Miller were celebrated as guests of honor at more than two dozen science fiction conventions across the country, and were frequent panelists and guest speakers.
Their awards include the Prism for Best Futuristic Romance, the Golden Duck for Best YA SF, the Reader's Choice Award for the Year's Best Military and Adventure SF of 2017, and the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (the Skylark).
Sharon Lee is continuing the work she and her co-author began in 1988, with their first novel, Agent of Change. Diviner's Bow, the 27th Liaden Universe® novel, will be published by Baen in April 2025, with three more novels under contract.
For more information about the Liaden Universe®, including reading orders, go to https://korval.com.
To keep up with Sharon and the resident Maine coon cats, go to https://sharonleewriter.com
Convention Guest Appearances
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2025
- Balticon 2025 - May 23-26, 2025 in Baltimore, MD, USA 2020
Albacon 2020 - September 11-13, 2020 in Albany, NY, USAConvention Cancelled 2018- MidSouthCon 2018 - March 9-11, 2018 in Memphis, TN, USA 2017
- Confluence 2017 - August 4-6, 2017 in Coraopolis, PA, USA
- MarsCon 2017 - March 3-5, 2017 in Bloomington, MN, USA 2016
- Balticon 2016 - May 27-30, 2016 in Baltimore, MD, USA 2014
- Philcon 2014 - November 21-23, 2014 in Cherry Hill, NJ, USA 2012
- ConQuesT 2012 - May 25-27, 2012 in Kansas City, MO, USA 2011
- The Great New England Steampunk Exhibition 2011 - September 16-18, 2011 in Fitchburg, MA, USA
- PortConMaine 2011 - June 23-26, 2011 in South Portland, ME, USA 2004
- Trinoc*coN 2004 - July 23-25, 2004 in Durham, NC, USA
- PortConMaine 2004 - June 18-20, 2004 in South Portland, ME, USA
- Boskone 2004 - February 13-15, 2004 in Boston, MA, USA
12 confirmed guest appearances