Rebecca Ore is the pseudonym of science fiction writer Rebecca B. Brown.
Rebecca Ore was born in Louisville, KY, out of people from Kentucky and Virginia, Irish Catholic and French Protestant turned Southern Baptist on her mother’s side and Welsh and Borderer on her father’s. She grew up in South Carolina and fell in love with New York City from a distance, moved there in 1968 and lived on the Upper West Side and Lower East Side for seven years. Somehow, she also attended Columbia University School of General Studies while spending most of her energy in the St. Mark Poetry Project. In 1975, she moved to San Francisco for almost a year, then moved to Virginia, back and forth several places for several years, finished a Masters in English, then moved to rural Virginia for ten years, writing s.f. novels and living in her grandparent’s house after they died.
Books in order of publication by series:
| Becoming Alien | 1989 |
| Being Alien | 1989 |
| Human to Human | 1990 |
| The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid | 1991 |
| Alien Bootlegger and Other Stories: And Other Stories | 1993 |
| Slow Funeral | 1994 |
| Gaia’s Toys | 1995 |
| Outlaw School | 2000 |
| Time’s Child | 2007 |
| Centuries Ago and Very Fast | 2009 |
| Time and Robbery | 2012 |
