The Karen Memory sequence beginning with Karen Memory ( 2015) is Steampunk set in Seattle with Western plot elements. Also fantasy is the Companion to Wolves sequence comprising A Companion to Wolves ( 2007) with Sarah Monette, The Tempering of Men ( 2011) with Sara Monette and An Apprentice to Elves ( 2015) with Sara Monette.
Also taking off from a New York setting, the Promethean Age Saga comprising Blood and Iron ( 2006) and Whiskey and Water ( 2007), along with its pendant, the Stratford Man Duology comprising Ink and Steel ( 2008) and Hell and Earth ( 2008), along with the more ambitious One-Eyed Jack ( 2014), which is set in an icon-choked Los Angeles (see California) evocative of Tim Powers. She has since concentrated mainly on series, mostly fantasy, such as the New Amsterdam sequence beginning with New Amsterdam (coll of linked stories 2007), the Eternal Sky sequence beginning with Bone and Jewel Creatures (coll 2010), and the connected Lotus Kingdoms sequence beginning with The Stone in the Skull ( 2017). Carnival ( 2006), though it features similarly tough-minded, slangy, sharply likeable protagonists, is set in a more expansive, interstellar Space Opera venue. By the end of the final volume, the action has moved, via Canada, into space, where it may be humanity will survive.
Her protagonist is an ex-military special operative, so geared up with hardware that she could be defined as a Cyborg the America in which she works as a private enforcer is dominated by a fundamentalist Christian government (see Religion), whose actions are realistically depicted by Bear as exceedingly unpleasant, though the eventual appearance of the twentieth-century physicist Richard Feynman, Uploaded into an AI, lightens the tone for a bit. She is best known for her sharp-tongued, noirish Jenny Casey sequence of Military SF/police procedural sf (see Crime and Punishment) tales comprising Hammered ( 2004), Scardown ( 2005) and Worldwired ( 2005), set in a grim late twenty-first-century urban world. Working name of Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (1971- ), US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "e e 'doc' cummings" for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in March 2003, and who has released at least fifty stories since she won the 2005 John W Campbell Award for best new writer, and the Hugo award for "Shoggoths in Bloom" (March 2008 Asimov's).
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