Susan Shwartz

Susan Shwartz (born December 31, 1949) is an American author.^[1]

She received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 and a PhD in English from Harvard University.^[1]

Shwartz's Heirs to Byzantium trilogy – Byzantium's Crown (1987), The Woman of Flowers (1987) and Queensblade (1988) is an alternate history series. The Heirs to Byzantium novels are set in a world where Marc Antony defeats Octavius in the Battle of Actium, and joins with Cleopatra to make Byzantium capital of the Roman Empire.^[1]

Shwartz's novel The Grail of Hearts (1992) is a fantasy that features the Holy Grail. It also features a sympathetic version of Kundry from Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal; Shwart's Kundry is depicted as a version of the Wandering Jew.^[1]

Shwartz has published several novels and sixty short stories.

• The Woman of Flowers (1987)
• Byzantium's Crown (1987)
• Silk Roads and Shadows (1988)
• Queensblade (1988)
• Arabesques: More Tales of the Arabian Nights (1988)
• Heritage of Flight (1989)
• Imperial Lady (1989) with Andre Norton
• Arabesques II (1989)
• The Grail of Hearts (1991)
• Empire of the Eagle (1993) with Andre Norton. Historical novel about a group of Romans who flee the Battle of Carrhae and travel to India and China.^[2]
• Shards of Empire (1996)
• Cross and Crescent (1997)
• Second Chances (2001)
• Hostile Takeover (2004)

She has also collaborated with science fiction writer (and fellow Mount Holyoke alumna) Judith Tarr on the following works:

• S.M. Stirling – Blood Feuds (1993) (with Judith Tarr and Susan Shwartz and Harry Turtledove (Part of the "War World" sub-series in the "Co-dominium" series, originally created by Jerry Pournelle) and Blood Vengeance (1994) (with Susan Shwartz and Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove and Jerry Pournelle (Also part of the "War World" sub-series)
• CoDominium – Blood Feuds (1992) Susan Shwartz, S.M. Stirling, Judith Tarr, and Harry Turtledove and Blood Vengeance (1994) Susan Shwartz, S.M. Stirling, Judith Tarr, and Harry Turtledove.

All co-written with Josepha Sherman

• Vulcan's Forge (1997)
• Vulcan's Heart (1999)
• Exodus: Vulcan's Soul Book One (2004)
• Exiles: Vulcan's Soul Trilogy Book Two (2006)
• Epiphany: Vulcan's Soul Trilogy Book Three (2007)

• Suppose They Gave a Peace... (1992) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Presidents)
• And the Glory of Them (2002) (collected in Harry Turtledove's alternate history anthology Alternate Generals II)

• 1996 – San Francisco Chronicle Award for Best Novella
• 1995 (with Mike Resnick) – HOMer Award for Best Novella^[3]
• 1993 – San Francisco Chronicle Award for Best Novelette

• 1995: Nebula Award for Best Novella
• 1993: Hugo Award for Best Novelette
• 1992, 1991, 1990: Nebula Award for Best Novelette
• 1989: Philip K. Dick Award
• 1987: Nebula Award for Best Short Story

• The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh
• The Enterprise Incident
• Women science fiction authors

• Personal website
• Bibliography at SciFan
• Susan Shwartz at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Interview 1
• Interview 2
• Trek Nation