Cherry Wilder

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Cherry Wilder , actually Cherry Barbara Grimm (* 3. September 1930 in Auckland as Cherry Barbara Lockett ; † 14. March 2002 in Wellington ) was a New Zealand science fiction - and fantasy - author .

Life

Cherry Wilder was born in Auckland, New Zealand's North Island . She attended Nelson Girls High in Nelson and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch on the South Island . After graduating, she worked as a university teacher and theater director.

In 1954 she moved with her first husband to Newcastle New South Wales in Australia , in 1961 with her second husband Horst Grimm (1928-1992) to Sydney . She wrote love and adventure stories for various magazines.

In 1974 her first SF story appeared under the title The Ark of James Carlyle in "New Writings In SF: 24". She originally submitted the story under a male pseudonym , but then published it under the new pseudonym Cherry Wilder . To choose the name she said:

"At this time I chose the name Wilder, thinking of Laura Ingalls Wilder , Thornton Wilder , and Sir John Wilder of TV's" The Power Game ", played by the late Patrick Wymark ."

"It was then that I chose the name Wilder, thinking of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Thornton Wilder, and Sir John Wilder from the television series The Power Game , played by the late Patrick Wymark."

Since her SF stories were very successful, she continued to write science fiction, and later fantasy. In total, she wrote more than fifty short stories and several novels.

In 1976 Wilder moved with her family to Langen near Frankfurt am Main. She moved back to New Zealand in the late 1980s.

She died in 2002 at the age of 71. Her literary estate is in the De Grummond Collection of the University of Southern Mississippi .

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Books

The Torin Trilogy

  • 1977 The Luck of Brin's Five (The happiness of Brin Five) - in 1978 received the Ditmar Award for Best Australian amendment
  • 1982 The nearest Fire (The fire that is closest)
  • 1986 The Tapestry Warriors (The Gobelin warriors)

Some short stories are set in the same world as the Torin trilogy (some of them marked accordingly below).

The royal children

  • 1984 A Princess of the Chameln (Princess Aidris)
  • 1984 Yorath the Wolf (Wolf Warrior Yorath)
  • 1986 The Summer's King (King Sharn)
  • 2004 The Wanderer , completed by Katya Reimann after Wilder's death . The Wanderer would be the first book of a second trilogy in the world of the rulers of Hylor.

Rhomary land

  • 1986 Second Nature
  • 1996 Signs of Life

Other books

  • 1988 Cruel Designs
  • 1995 Dealers in Light and Darkness , a collection

Short stories

  • 1974 The Ark of James Carlyle - 1975 nominated for the Ditmar Award for best Australian long fiction
  • 1975 The Phobos Transcripts
  • 1975 Way Out West - 1976 nominated for the Ditmar Award for best Australian long fiction
  • 1976 Double Summer Time
  • 1976 The Remittance Man
  • 1977 The Lodestar
  • 1977 Point of Departure
  • 1978 The Falldown of Man
  • 1978 Mab Gallen Recalled - published in Millennial Women
  • 1979 Dealers in Light and Darkness
  • 1979 A Long, Bright Day by the Sea of ​​Utner
  • 1979 Odd Man Search
  • 1980 The Gingerbread House
  • 1981 Gone to Earth
  • 1981 The Dreamers of Deliverance
  • 1983 Cabin Fever
  • 1983 Kaleidoscope
  • 1983 Something Coming Through
  • 1985 The Ballad of Hilo Hill
  • 1986 Dreamwood
  • 1987 The Decline of Sunshine
  • 1988 The House on Cemetery Street
  • 1989 Anzac Day
  • 1989 The Soul of a Poet
  • 1990 Alive in Venice
  • 1990 Old Noon's Tale
  • 1990 A Woman's Ritual
  • 1990 The Beta Syndrome
  • 1991 Looking Forward to the Harvest
  • 1992 Bird on a Time Branch
  • 1993 Special Effects
  • 1994 Willow Cottage
  • 1995 Back of Beyond
  • 1996 The Curse of Kali
  • 1996 Dr. Tilmann's Consultant: A Scientific Romance
  • 1997 Friends in Berlin
  • 1997 The Ghost Hunters
  • 1998 The Bernstein Room
  • 1998 The Dancing Floor (based in the Torin world)
  • 2000 Saturday
  • 2001 Aotearoa

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personal data
SURNAME Wilder, Cherry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimm, Cherry Barbara (real name); Lockett, Cherry Barbara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Auckland
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2002
Place of death Wellington