Lacking other options, she unseals her powered-suit and urinates on the creature to drive it off.

Dung Fu: In the short story 'The Heart's Filthy Lesson', a female explorer on Venus is attacked by a tiger-like creature that chases her up a tree.

Dug Too Deep: Miners uncover a dragon in the story 'Orm the Beautiful'.

Consummate Liar: Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones from Carnival has this ability it causes tension with his lover, who is a Living Lie Detector.

He also takes considerable advantage of the increased processor power he finds, duplicating himself many times and eventually becoming a sort of guardian to the entire Earth. Despite thinking of himself as 'Dick' or 'Richard', he's very clear on being a different person than the original Feynman.

Brain Uploading: The Jenny Casey series contain a sentient AI with the memory and behavioral patterns of physicist Richard Feynman.

Bond Creatures: The authors did a brilliant and weirdly hilarious Darker and Edgier spin on some of the less charming implications of the Pern series in A Companion to Wolves, which is pretty much Pern WITH GAY VIKINGS and giant sentient wolves replacing dragons.

They can also move through rock and earth as easily as humans do through water and have a hivelike setup with a queen as the only fertile female, sterile female worker/soldiers and males whose only function is to impregnate the queen.

All Trolls Are Different: In A Companion To Wolves, trolls fit into the 'big ogrish' type physically.

Which according to a literal interpretation of the Alien Non-Interference Clause, means the current colony is illegal. The book's major twist is that the natives of the world the book takes place on voluntarily gave up space travel and reverted to a pre-technological state. As you might expect, this sometimes results in a situation similar to what happened in most European colonies.

Alien Non-Interference Clause: Undertow has an inversion: If a planet is inhabited, humans can only colonize it if the natives are pre-space.

Bone and Jewel Creatures (2010, novella).

The Eternal Sky / Lotus Kingdoms series:.

The Chains That You Refuse (collection, 2006).

The Iskryne series (with Sarah Monette):.

The White Space series is also set in the same continuity ( Ancestral Night).

Jacob's Ladder Trilogy ( Dust, Chill, and Grail).

Boojumverse (assorted shorts, with Sarah Monette).

In addition to several awards for her writing, she is also an active SF fan, and her podcast, SF Squeecast, has won the Hugo Award for Best Fancast. She has gone on to publish over twenty novels, and a wide variety of short stories. Elizabeth Bear is the pen name of Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971), an American author of Speculative Fiction who burst on the scene in 2005 with her science fiction novel Hammered (start of the Jenny Casey trilogy), which earned her a John W.

Hammered by Elizabeth Bear