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Clare Bell

(b.1952)

aka Clare Coleman

Clare Bell is an author in the U.S. best known for her Ratha series of young adult fantasy novels about prehistoric big cats. These books, also called the Named series, are about intelligent self-aware large cats who have puma, cheetah and lion characteristics, and are based on fossil creatures who are ancestors of the saber-tooth cat.

Series

Named
   1. Ratha's Creature (1983)
   2. Clan Ground (1984)
   3. Ratha and Thistle-Chaser (1990)
   4. Ratha's Challenge (1994)
   5. Ratha's Courage (2007)

Novels

   Tomorrow's Sphinx (1986)
   People of the Sky (1989)
   The Jaguar Princess (1993)

Books containing stories by Clare Bell

Firebirds Soaring (2009)
An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction
edited by
Sharyn November

Catfantastic III (1994)
(Catfantastic, book 3)
edited by
Martin H Greenberg and Andre Norton

Catfantastic II (1990)
(Catfantastic, book 2)
edited by
Martin H Greenberg and Andre Norton

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Award nominations

1984 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Ratha's Creature

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