Hannah Bowman

Liza Dawson Associates

Lit agent ("without her more characters would have lived"). Prison abolitionist @Xians4Abolition. Theologian. Let's tell revolutionary stories together. She/her

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· 28 Feb 2021

Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman

Reading the short story in @prisonculture’s book is reminding me again that I DESPERATELY want an SF novel that’s an abolition- and transformative-justice-focused cousin to THE DISPOSSESSED.

#MSWL

Sci-fi

· 16 Feb 2021

Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman

Rewatching She-Ra again is reminding me of how very much I love sentient planets/planetary magic, like this and what NK Jemisin does in THE STONE SKY. Give me all your conscious magic planets. #MSWL (attn @laurenbanka you should probably know this)

Also included in this is SF with planetary hivemind organisms or ecological emergent properties. #MSWL

Sci-fi

· 1 Feb 2021

I love a closed-system story: think submarine or generation ship. How do you survive and navigate conflicts when there's no escape? #MSWL

Adult
Sci-fi

· 1 Feb 2021

I'm a sucker for a great first-contact SF with really interesting aliens and the real sense of discovery of a new world—but with a real understanding of the conflicts of colonialism. THE SPARROW is the goal here. #MSWL

Sci-fi
Adult

· 1 Feb 2021

Solar system or galaxy-spanning space opera. (NO humanoid aliens though!) Big story, big scale, big worldbuilding. Lotsa spaceships. #MSWL

· 1 Feb 2021

Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman

OK, time for the fun part of being open to queries again: #MSWL. Here's some specific things I'd love to find. (This isn't everything though! I'm open to anything great that's adult SFF.)

A big-idea philosophical abolitionist SF. Think THE DISPOSSESSED. Show me a world where how we address violence and harm is totally different, and what stories that engenders. (I really, really want this, but it really, really, no kidding, has to be great to work.) #MSWL

Sci-fi
Adult

· 1 Feb 2021

Friends, I'm open to queries as of now. (With the help of the wonderful @laurenbanka.) Adult SFF queries only. Email query letter only to queryHannah [at] LizaDawson [dot] com. I'll share some #MSWL thoughts later today…

· 7 Jun 2020

Nikkita Bourbaki is sick of winning. @futurebird

My suggestion, make a sci fi crime drama show about future NYC where there are no police as we now know them. (Except detectives, but even they would be different.)

Show the various agencies and community group that deal with crimes.

I mean #MSWL honestly.

Sci-fi
Crime

· 27 Oct 2019

Sharon Kuruvilla @Sharon_Kuruvila

I always find it interesting that every sci-fi mil author ends up picking a branch of the military and bases all of the content around that specific branch; one has to wonder why we pick just one branch as our frame of reference, considering how different space combat is.

I’m going to jump off this thread to say that if you have milSF that deals with various military branches and the rivalries between them, I am SO interested. #MSWL

· 10 Oct 2018

3. A truly epic space opera. Either one with fascinating and unique worldbuilding (think THE STARS ARE LEGION or A DOOR INTO OCEAN) or one that's just plain fun as well as galaxy-spanning (think the Vorkosigan books). #MSWL

· 10 Oct 2018

A delightful conversation with an editor this morning has reminded me of some things I'd really like to see #MSWL:
1. A prison-abolitionist utopian SF novel. Think THE DISPOSSESSED but specifically about restorative justice.
2. A really good first contact book like THE SPARROW.

Sci-fi

· 12 Jul 2018

There's been a request for a #MSWL now that I'm re-opening to queries. So, a thread on what I most want to see. (This is NOT EXHAUSTIVE! I'm open to all kinds of adult SFF.)