{{short description|Canadian fantasy author (born 1962)}} {{BLP primary sources|date=November 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Fiona Patton | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1962}} | birth_place = Calgary, Alberta, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist | period = | genre = Fantasy | subject = | spouse =Tanya Huff | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = }} '''Fiona Patton''' (born 1962) is a Canadian fantasy author. She has written more than 50 short stories including within the genres heroic fantasy, horror and science fiction and is well known for her The Warriors of Estavia series.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fiona Patton {{!}} Penguin Random House|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/233210/fiona-patton|access-date=2021-12-15|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US}}</ref>
Born in Calgary, Alberta, Patton moved to the United States in 1966. In 1975, she returned to Canada with her family, settling in Toronto.<ref>{{cite web|author=Gaylaxicon 2006 |title=Additional Author Guest |url=http://gaylaxicon.gaylacticnetwork.org/2006/Guests.php |accessdate=22 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716082105/http://gaylaxicon.gaylacticnetwork.org/2006/Guests.php |archivedate=16 July 2011 }}</ref> In 1992, she moved with her wife Tanya Huff to rural Ontario.<ref>[http://www.afterellen.com/people/2007/3/tanyahuff AfterEllen:Behind the Scenes of "Blood Ties" ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810215445/http://www.afterellen.com/people/2007/3/tanyahuff |date=2007-08-10 }}</ref> She currently works as a counsellor for the developmentally handicapped.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fiona Patton|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/69803.Fiona_Patton|access-date=2021-12-15|website=goodreads.com}}</ref>
==Bibliography== ===The Branion Realm=== # ''The Stone Prince'' New York: DAW, 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfsite.com/07a/ston36.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990427022005/http://www.sfsite.com/07a/ston36.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 April 1999|title=SFSite Reviews The Stone Prince|last=von Thorn|first=Alexander|year=1998|publisher=SF Site|accessdate=17 July 2012}}</ref> # ''The Painter Knight'' New York: DAW, 1998. # ''The Granite Shield'' New York: DAW, 1999. # ''The Golden Sword'' New York: DAW, 2001.<ref>{{cite journal|last=LaValley|first=Liz|date=1 January 2002|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Patton%2c+Fiona.+The+golden+sword.-a0107217382|title=Patton, Fiona. The golden sword. (Book Review)|journal=Kliatt Young Adult Review|publisher=Kliatt via TheFreeLibrary}}</ref>
===Warriors of Estavia=== # ''The Silver Lake'' New York: DAW, 2005. # ''The Golden Tower'' New York: DAW, 2008. # ''The Shining City'' New York: DAW, 2011.
=== Additional short stories === * "Anisoptera with a Side Order of Soft Blast" in ''The Clan Chronicles: Tales from Plexis'', 2020<ref>{{Cite web|last=Burgoine|first='Nathan|date=2020-05-02|title=Short Stories 366:123 – "Anisoptera with a Side Order of Soft Blast," by Fiona Patton|url=https://apostrophen.wordpress.com/2020/05/02/short-stories-366123-anisoptera-with-a-side-order-of-soft-blast-by-fiona-patton/|access-date=2021-12-15|website='Nathan Burgoine|language=en}}</ref> * "A Dying Life" in ''Mob Magic'': DAW, 1998<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Dying Life by Fiona Patton|url=https://www.fictiondb.com/title/a-dying-life~fiona-patton~302064.htm|access-date=2021-12-15|website=fictiondb.com|language=en}}</ref> * "Heritage" in ''Warrior Fantastic'': DAW, 2000<ref>{{Cite web|title=Heritage by Fiona Patton|url=https://www.fictiondb.com/title/heritage~fiona-patton~302955.htm|access-date=2021-12-15|website=fictiondb.com|language=en}}</ref> * "Death Mage" in ''Villains Victorious''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Villains Victorious by Martin Harry Greenberg|url=https://www.librarything.com/work/63811|access-date=2021-12-15|via=LibraryThing.com|language=en}}</ref> * "The Hero of Killorglin" in ''Fantasy Gone Wrong'': 2007<ref>{{Cite book|title=Fantasy Gone Wrong by Martin Harry Greenberg|url=https://www.librarything.com/work/1882870|access-date=2021-12-15|via=LibraryThing.com|language=en}}</ref> * "The Silver Path" in ''The Dimension Next Door'' * "The Blood of the People": 2009 * "The White Bull of Tara" in ''Zombie Raccoons & Killer Bunnies'': 2009<ref>{{Cite book|title=Zombie Raccoons & Killer Bunnies by Martin H. Greenberg|url=https://www.librarything.com/work/8952870|access-date=2021-12-15|via=LibraryThing.com|language=en}}</ref> * "The King's Own" in ''Bless Your Mechanical Heart'' * "The Huntsman" * "Revenge Is A Dish Best Served With Beers" * "The wild rogue" in ''Elementary: All-New Tales of the Elemental Masters'' * "The Svedali Foundlings" in ''Assassin Fantastic'': 2007 * "The Sins of the Sons" in ''If I Were An Evil Overlord'' * "The Children of Diardin: To Find the Advantage" in ''Women of War'' * "The Three Gems of the Fianna" in ''Maiden, Matron, Crone'' * "The Raven's Quest" in ''Magical Beginnings'' * "Lucky Charm" in ''The Bakka anthology'': 2002 * "The Blood of the People" in ''Army of the Fantastic'' * "Coin of the Realm" in ''Slipstreams'' * "The Sentry" in ''Human for a Day'': 2011<ref>{{Cite book|title=Human for a Day by Martin H. Greenberg|url=https://www.librarything.com/work/12022403|access-date=2021-12-15|via=LibraryThing.com|language=en}}</ref> * in ''Fellowship Fantastic'': 2007 * "Brothers in the flesh" in ''The Repentant'' * "Family Trees" in ''Mythspring: From the Lyrics and Legends of Canada'' * "The Sacred Waters of Kane" in ''Oceans of Magic'': 2001 * in ''Camelot Fantastic'' * in ''Imaginary Friends'' * "Family" in ''The Mutant Files'' * "Games of Fate" in ''Pharaoh Fantastic'' * "The Trade" in ''Children of Magic'': 2006 * in ''Apprentice Fantastic'' * in ''Warrior Fantastic'' * "Overwater" in ''By the Light of Camelot''<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Campbell|first1=J. R.|url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details/By_the_Light_of_Camelot?id=RTBmDwAAQBAJ&gl=US|title=By the Light of Camelot|last2=Allen|first2=Shannon|date=2018-07-24|publisher=EDGE-Lite|isbn=978-1-77053-156-7|language=en}}</ref> * "Heartsease" in ''Sirius The Dog Star''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Goodreads|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410065.Sirius}}</ref> * in ''Once Upon a Galaxy'' * in ''Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City'' * "Captain of the Dead" in ''Knight Fantastic''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Goodreads|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/475745.Knight_Fantastic}}</ref> * "Makana" in ''Elemental Magic'': 2012<ref>{{Cite web|title=Elemental Magic, edited by Mercedes Lackey (review) – The Bookwyrm's Hoard|url=https://bookwyrmshoard.com/book-reviews/elemental-magic-edited-by-mercedes-lackey/|access-date=2021-12-15|language=en-US}}</ref> * "The Watchmen" Miniseries, in multiple Valdemar anthologies
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==External links== * {{ISFDB name |name=Fiona Patton}} * [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/fiona-patton/ FantasticFiction:Biography Fiona Patton] * {{DNB portal|129069094|TYP=}} * [http://www.bookfinder.com/author/fiona-patton/ Fiona Patton] at [http://www.bookfinder.com Bookfinder] * [http://www.lambdanachrichten.at/ln200501/ln-bibliothek.html LambdaNachrichten:Schwule Fantasy:Fiona Patton] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093057/http://www.lambdanachrichten.at/ln200501/ln-bibliothek.html |date=6 July 2011 }} (German)
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