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Shadow Unit #10
Shadow Unit 10
The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit.
The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear.
Contains
Uniform by Elizabeth Bear, Emma Bull, and Leah Bobet
Ligature by Elizabeth Bear - featuring Emma Bull
Wireless Girl by Emma Bull and Stephen Shipman
and more.
The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear.
Contains
Uniform by Elizabeth Bear, Emma Bull, and Leah Bobet
Ligature by Elizabeth Bear - featuring Emma Bull
Wireless Girl by Emma Bull and Stephen Shipman
and more.
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First published August 4, 2011
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About the author
Emma Bull
83 books690 followersEmma Bull is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. She has participated in Terri Windling's Borderland shared universe, which is the setting of her 1994 novel Finder. She sang in the rock-funk band Cats Laughing, and both sang and played guitar in the folk duo The Flash Girls while living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Her 1991 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel Bone Dance was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. Bull wrote a screenplay for War for the Oaks, which was made into an 11-minute mini-film designed to look like a film trailer. She made a cameo appearance as the Queen of the Seelie Court, and her husband, Will Shetterly, directed. Bull and Shetterly created the shared universe of Liavek, for which they have both written stories. There are five Liavek collections extant.
She was a member of the writing group The Scribblies, which included Will Shetterly as well as Pamela Dean, Kara Dalkey, Nate Bucklin, Patricia Wrede and Steven Brust. With Steven Brust, Bull wrote Freedom and Necessity (1997), an epistolary novel with subtle fantasy elements set during the 19th century United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Chartist movement.
Bull graduated from Beloit College in 1976. Bull and Shetterly live in Arizona.
Her 1991 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel Bone Dance was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. Bull wrote a screenplay for War for the Oaks, which was made into an 11-minute mini-film designed to look like a film trailer. She made a cameo appearance as the Queen of the Seelie Court, and her husband, Will Shetterly, directed. Bull and Shetterly created the shared universe of Liavek, for which they have both written stories. There are five Liavek collections extant.
She was a member of the writing group The Scribblies, which included Will Shetterly as well as Pamela Dean, Kara Dalkey, Nate Bucklin, Patricia Wrede and Steven Brust. With Steven Brust, Bull wrote Freedom and Necessity (1997), an epistolary novel with subtle fantasy elements set during the 19th century United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Chartist movement.
Bull graduated from Beloit College in 1976. Bull and Shetterly live in Arizona.
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May 20, 2015
"Uniform"
Nice to see some actual police work playing a role in solving the crime.
"Ligature"
Vitriolage. Ouch.
people are always violently stupid about science: just ask Hypatia and Galileo
Nice to see some actual police work playing a role in solving the crime.
"Ligature"
Vitriolage. Ouch.
people are always violently stupid about science: just ask Hypatia and Galileo
June 23, 2012
There is a fairy tale called Rosanella - its in one of the Lang books and isn't something you'd expect disney to do anything with (though the princess count is high and could probably sell a lot of merchandise). Two fairies are competing for the fairy queen throne. One raises a prince who cannot be made constant; the other, a princess who can make the most inconstant man fall in love. The princess is divided into twelve identical princesses, each with an dominant trait (named appropriately, like Sweet, Grave, Grace, etc). The prince loves them all - and so proves his fickle nature. But he loves the one princess made out of all 12 as well, so his fairy loses - gracefully of course. No battles in this tale.
Ultimately, it is about identity - that we are not just one personality trait, but a collection and sometimes the collection seems a bit...odd. Like matching socks based on thickness.
I find a similar theme in the Shadow Unit stories. We don't just learn about the characters through their actions - certainly, that is part of it. What people do tells us something about them. But there are interactions between characters, observations by others...and reading the stories provides a glimpse at the odd collections that make use who we are.
Characters have different names - aspects, I suppose - and the name used suggests that aspect of the character that is in focus. Chaz can also be Villette, and also Platypus. Faulkner is also Esther, and also Moms. And then there are the roles each plays - and I know that this is basic sesame street, but it still amazes me that one person can be so many different things and still be that one person.
Ultimately, it is about identity - that we are not just one personality trait, but a collection and sometimes the collection seems a bit...odd. Like matching socks based on thickness.
I find a similar theme in the Shadow Unit stories. We don't just learn about the characters through their actions - certainly, that is part of it. What people do tells us something about them. But there are interactions between characters, observations by others...and reading the stories provides a glimpse at the odd collections that make use who we are.
Characters have different names - aspects, I suppose - and the name used suggests that aspect of the character that is in focus. Chaz can also be Villette, and also Platypus. Faulkner is also Esther, and also Moms. And then there are the roles each plays - and I know that this is basic sesame street, but it still amazes me that one person can be so many different things and still be that one person.
May 1, 2012
I finished this and then immediately went to the website and finished all the remaining uncollected stories, and now I'm all caught up! I am so distraught! Now I have to wait, like everyone else. I love this series so much, and I desperately want to know more about all the characters. They're like family now.
October 3, 2024
Episodios 6, 7 y 8 de la tercera temporada. La pesadez y depresión generales no empeoran, pero ya se da por perdida a una de mis protagonistas favoritas, así que yo ya no leí más.
October 5, 2025
Hope rears its head and roars in defiance of the tragic cycle of a gamma and a former agent gets a chance to shine once more. Each case and mystery reinforces the evidence Shadow Unit has discovered about the gamma, the danger and the opportunity it offers. Cops, survivors of a gamma’s abuse, and bystanders whom cross the path of Shadow Unit had a voice in this volume, including those involved in past cases. Character vignettes popped up between cases to soften (or intensify) the peril of the hunt, but the overall arc in this book was an optimistic one, no matter how horrifying the crimes might be, or how tragically the hunt ended. One of the most powerful scenes between two of the strongest characters revealed that Chaz Villette has learned the lessons of manipulation in studying Stephen Reyes, while Hafidha Gates has her greatest struggle yet in accepting the hope offered to her.
Watching these characters develop and grow is breathtaking, even as I wonder where their fears and their hopes will lead them.
Watching these characters develop and grow is breathtaking, even as I wonder where their fears and their hopes will lead them.
June 22, 2015
Maybe it was the mood I was in when I read this, but the series feels like it is losing it's edge. The story was compelling as always, but the action wasn't as hard hitting, and the emotional content just wasn't nearly as powerful as previous books. I hope it is just a lull in the storyline and will pick up again in book 11.
August 8, 2015
Good, good stuff. Even better now I'm reading them one after the other without a break. Easier to follow the overarching arc of the story. And Hafidha gets to come out and play, just for a little while.
September 28, 2011
Not my favorite. Didn't seem as fleshed out as some of the other stories. I'm talking about Season 4 Episode 1.
January 3, 2013
Interesting continuation of the series with a twist - their recruiting one of their former members. Two more volumes to go (as of this moment).
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