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Tanya Huff is a Canadian Author born in Halifax, Nova Scotia who primarily writes science fiction and fantasy, though she has written stories in various other genres including comedy, horror, and romance.
Order of Confederation Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Valor's Choice | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Better Part of Valor | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Heart of Valor | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Valor's Trial | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Truth of Valor | 2010 | Description / Buy |
Order of Gale Women Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Enchantment Emporium | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Wild Ways | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Future Falls | 2014 | Description / Buy |
Order of Keeper Chronicles Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Summon the Keeper | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Second Summoning | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Long Hot Summoning | 2003 | Description / Buy |
Order of Peacekeeper Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | An Ancient Peace | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
2 | A Peace Divided | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Privilege of Peace | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Quarters Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Sing the Four Quarters | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Fifth Quarter | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
3 | No Quarter | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Quartered Sea | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Three Quarters: A Quarters Collection (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of Ravenloft Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Knight of the Black Rose | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Vampire of the Mists | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Dance Of The Dead | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Heart of Midnight | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Carnival of Fear | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Enemy Within | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Mordenheim | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Tales of Ravenloft | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Scholar of Decay | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Death of a Darklord | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
11 | King of the Dead | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Lord of the Necropolis | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Shadowborn | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
14 | I, Strahd | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Spectre of the Black Rose | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Black Crusade | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Heaven's Bones | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The War Against Azalin | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Smoke Trilogy Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Smoke and Shadows | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Smoke and Mirrors | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Smoke and Ashes | 2006 | Description / Buy |
Order of Vicki Nelson Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Blood Price | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Blood Trail | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Blood Lines | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Blood Pact | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Blood Debt | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Blood Bank | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Blood Shot | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Wizard of the Grove Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Child of the Grove | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Last Wizard | 1989 | Description / Buy |
Order of Tanya Huff Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Fire's Stone | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Silvered | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Into the Broken Lands | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Valdemar Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Valdemar Companion | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Sword of Ice and Other Tales of Valdemar | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Changing the World | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The One Left Behind (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
10 | No True Way | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Crucible | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Tempest | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Pathways | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Demon's Den and Other Tales of Valdemar | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Choices | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Seasons | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Passages | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Boundaries | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Shenanigans | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Tanya Huff Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | What Ho, Magic! | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Stealing Magic | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Relative Magic | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
4 | He Said, Sidhe Said & Other Tales | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Finding Magic | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
7 | February Thaw & Other Stories of Contemporary Fantasy (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Swan's Braid and Other Tales of Terizan (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Third Time Lucky | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Vampire Files Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Lifeblood | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Bloodlist | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Bloodcircle | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Art in the Blood | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Fire in the Blood | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Blood on the Water | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
7 | A Chill in the Blood | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Dark Sleep | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Lady Crymsyn | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Cold Streets | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Song in the Dark | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Many Bloody Returns | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Devil You Know (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Dark Road Rising | 2009 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Mammoth Book of... Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Mammoth Book of Terror | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Mammoth Book of Vampires | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Mammoth Book of Zombies | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Mammoth Book of Dracula | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction, Volume I | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Mammoth Book of New Terror | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Mammoth Book of Monsters | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Zombie Apocalypse! | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Mammoth Books presents Messing With Your Head (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Mammoth Books Presents The Unexpected (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Mammoth Books presents That Haunted Feeling (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Unexpected Encounters (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Mammoth Books presents A Ghostly Gathering (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
20 | A Clutch of Zombies (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Lethal Legends (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Mammoth Books presents Demonic Dreams (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Mammoth Books presents Monsters in Our Midst (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Mammoth Books presents More Than Human (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Zombie Apocalypse! End Game | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
26 | The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
27 | The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Infinite Stars Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Infinite Stars | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Bending the Landscape Series with , Stephen Baxter, , , Allen Steele, James A. Moore, , Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner, , Barbara Hambly, , Robin Wayne Bailey, , Nancy Kress, , , , , , , , , L. Timmel Duchamp, Don Bassingthwaite, Nicola Griffith, Ellen Klages, , , Wendy Rathbone, , Élisabeth Vonarburg
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Horror Writing | 2001 | Description / Buy |
Order of Smart Pop Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Stepping through the Stargate: Science, Archaeology and the Military in Stargate SG1 | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
5 | What Would Sipowicz Do? Race, Rights and Redemption in NYPD Blue | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Anthology at the End of the Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H. G. Wells Classic | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Navigating the Golden Compass: Religion, Science & Daemonology in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies And SD-6 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Flirting With Pride And Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives On The Original Chick Lit Masterpiece | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
14 | King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape! | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Totally Charmed | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Mapping the World of Harry Potter | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Man from Krypton: A Closer Look at Superman | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Star Wars on Trial | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Battle for Azeroth | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Getting Lost | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Boarding the Enterprise | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
22 | James Bond in the 21st Century: Why We Still Need 007 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Investigating CSI: Inside the Crime Labs of Las Vegas, Miami and New York | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
24 | So Say We All: An Unauthorized Collection of Thoughts and Opinions on Battlestar Galactica | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Earth's Last Days | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Literary Cash: Unauthorized Writings Inspired by the Legendary Johnny Cash | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Webslinger: Unauthorized Essays On Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Mind-Rain | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Through the Wardrobe | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
32 | A New Dawn: Your Favorite Authors on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Secrets of the Dragon Riders: Your Favorite Authors on Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle: Completely Unauthorized | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Secrets of the Dragon Riders | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
35 | You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I Am Jack's Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection | 2008 | Description / Buy |
Order of Imaginarium Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Imaginarium 2011: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Imaginarium 5: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Tanya Huff Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Vampire Detectives | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Northern Frights III | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Virtuous Vampires | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Time of the Vampires | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Fortune Teller | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Crossing the Line | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Repentant | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Women of War | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Totally Charmed | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Mythspring | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Under Cover of Darkness | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Dragon Done It | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Evolve | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Vampires in Love | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Those Who Fight Monsters | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Wild Side | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Armored | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
20 | A Fantasy Medley 2 | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Weird Detectives | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Queers Dig Time Lords | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories By Women | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
25 | The Modern Deity's Guide to Surviving Humanity | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Born in 1957, Tanya was just ten years old when she achieved her first publishing feat. The author wrote poems that The Picton Gazette not only agreed to publish but they also paid her ten dollars.
Though, that did not immediately place her on the path to publishing success. Rather, Tanya went on to join the Canadian Naval Reserve. They had just opened the doors to women, so Tanya enlisted as a cook, certain that she would eventually go out to sea.
Unfortunately, she abandoned the post a year too early, before she could get her shot. That wasn’t the last time Tanya’s timing led her astray. The author eventually pursued a Radio and Television Arts degree.
But by the time she graduated from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, the Radio and Television business had become quite competitive. People were being laid off left and right, and it did not take Tanya Huff long to realize that she stood no real chance of landing a secure job when so many of her rivals had years of experience to back their resumes.
Tanya loved books, so she was fortunate to land a position at Bakka. The eight years she spent working full time at the Bookstore afforded Tanya the opportunity to write seven books.
She was able to publish most of them. Tanya’s success came slowly. She can’t point to one singular event that immediately transformed her life and made her publishing dreams a reality.
The poems she sold at the age of ten definitely gave her the courage she needed to persevere as a writer, and so did her first professional sale which she made to the editor of Amazing Stories in the mid-1980s.
But for the most part, the success the author eventually received came at a trickling pace. Each story Tanya produced made her a better writer. And every book of hers that earned a position on a bookshelf grew her fame.
She was fortunate to participate in the activities of the Bunch of Seven, a writing group that gave her the support she needed to keep pursuing her writing goals.
The author isn’t afraid to admit that she often drew inspiration from real life, using the names of the people she had known and the places she had visited to bring some of her fantastical elements to life.
Tanya Huff Awards
The Wild Ways was a Spectrum Award Finalist. A number of Tanya’s works have also received Aurora Award Nominations, including Blood Price and No Quarter.
Tanya Huff Books into Movies/TV
Tanya Huff’s Blood novels were adapted into a live-action TV Show called Blood Ties. The show ran for 22 episodes. It tells the story of Vicki Nelson, a private investigator who teams up with an ancient vampire to solve crimes.
Best Tanya Huff Books
Tanya has been known to take pride in the fact that her living is earned solely through her writing, with some of the best books in her bibliography including:
Blood Price: Vicki Nelson was a homicide detective in Toronto. Now she works as a private detective. When a series of gruesome murders assails the city, Vicki reaches out to her old partner, hoping to find assistance in her efforts to stop a dark force.
Henry is a vampire but he knows how to blend in with the humans. He also understands that, without his help, neither Vicki nor her partner will survive the chaotic force they seek to foil.
Valor’s Choice: Humans were permitted to join the Confederation but only if they agreed to fight a war to protect the civilized races of the galaxy from a fearsome foe. Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr was forced to abruptly end her leave to protect a diplomatic mission to a non-confederation planet.
She did not expect the task to present much of a challenge, not even in light of rumors that the Confederation’s deadly enemy had been spotted in the vicinity, and that they were probably out to ruin the diplomatic mission.
In fact, for the longest time, things were going so perfectly that when all hell broke loose, Torrin wasn’t quite as prepared as she would have liked.
When Does The Next Tanya Huff book come out?
Tanya Huff doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Into the Broken Lands and was released on August, 23rd 2022.