Cherry Barbara Grimm (née Lockett, 3 September 1930 – 14 March 2002), better known by the pseudonym Cherry Wilder, was a New Zealand science fiction and

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and d ...

writer.

Biography

Born in

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about I ...

, New Zealand, Lockett attended Nelson College for Girls in

Nelson Nelson may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey * ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers * ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...

and the

University of Canterbury The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...

Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon Rive ...

before first moving to Australia and then, in 1976 to

Langen, Hesse Langen is a town of roughly 39,000 in the Offenbach district in the '' Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. The town is between Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Langen is headquar ...

n, Germany. She also lived in Wiesbaden-Bierstadt, before moving back to New Zealand in 1996. She chose the pseudonym "Cherry Wilder" when she began writing science fiction stories in 1974. She published 10 novels and over 50 short stories. She died 14 March 2002, in

Wellington Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by ...

, New Zealand at 71.

Bibliography

Books

The Torin Trilogy

# ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' (1977) – Won the 1978

Ditmar Award The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise a ...

for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel # ''The Nearest Fire'' (1982) # ''The Tapestry Warriors'' (1987) Several short stories are also set in the world of the Torin trilogy; not all are so marked in the list below.

The Rulers of Hylor series

# ''A Princess of the Chameln'' (1984) # ''Yorath the Wolf'' (1984) # ''The Summer's King'' (1986) # ''The Wanderer'' (2004) with

Katya Reimann Katya Reimann (born 1965) is an American writer of fantasy novels. Biography Reimann is an author of high fantasy novels. Her debut novel, ''Wind from a Foreign Sky'', is set in a world similar to the Dark Ages. She has cited her literary infl ...

, published posthumously. ''The Wanderer'' was to be the first in a new trilogy set in the world of the Rulers of Hylor trilogy.

Rhomary Land books

# ''Second Nature'' (1986) # ''Signs of Life'' (1996)

Other books

* ''Cruel Designs'' (1988) * ''Dealers in Light and Darkness'' (1995), a collection

Short fiction

* "The Ark of James Carlyle" (1974) – Nominated for the 1975

for Best Australian Long Fiction * "The Phobos Transcripts" (1975) * "Way Out West" (1975) – Nominated for the 1976

for Best Australian Long fiction * "Double Summer Time" (1976) * "The Remittance Man" (1976) * "The Lodestar" (1977) * "Point of Departure" (1977) * "The Falldown of Man" (1978) * "Mab Gallen Recalled" (1978) – Published in ''

Millennial Women ''Millennial Women'' is a 1978 science fiction anthology, edited by Virginia Kidd, in which all the stories are written by women and have a female character as the primary protagonist. The themes which these stories have in common are those of so ...

'' (1978) * "Dealers in Light and Darkness" (1979) * "A Long, Bright Day by the Sea of Utner" (1979) * "Odd Man Search" (1979) * "The Gingerbread House" (1980) * "Gone to Earth" (1981) * "The Dreamers of Deliverance" (1981) * "Cabin Fever" (1983) * "Kaleidoscope" (1983) * "Something Coming Through" (1983) * "The Ballad of Hilo Hill" (1985) * "Dreamwood" (1986) * "The Decline of Sunshine" (1987) * "The House on Cemetery Street" (1988) * "Anzac Day" (1989) * "The Soul of a Poet" (1989) * "Alive in Venice" (1990) * "Old Noon's Tale" (1990) * "A Woman's Ritual" (1990) * "The Beta Syndrome" (1990) * "Looking Forward to the Harvest" (1991) * "Bird on a Time Branch" (1992) * "Special Effects" (1993) * "Willow Cottage" (1994) * "Back of Beyond" (1995) * "The Curse of Kali" (1996) * "Dr. Tilmann's Consultant: A Scientific Romance" (1996) * "Friends in Berlin" (1997) * "The Ghost Hunters" (1997) * "The Bernstein Room" (1998) * "The Dancing Floor" (1998) in '' Dreaming Down-Under'' (ed.

Jack Dann Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-edit ...

Janeen Webb Janeen Webb (''née'' Pemberton) is an Australian writer, critic and editor, working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Biography The daughter of a Second World War Australian Army commando and salesman, Webb was brought up in ...

) (set in the world of the Torin trilogy) * "Saturday" (2000) * "Aotearoa" (2001)

Poetry

* "Legend" and "Prayer for a Wanderer", by Cherry Lockett, in ''Arachne''

About Wilder

* Yvonne Rousseau's ''Minmers Marooned and Planet of the Marsupials: The Science-Fiction Novels of Cherry Wilder'' (1997) is the third in Nimrod's Babel Handbook series.

References

External links

1999 interview with Miriam Hurst

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Bibliographies

from eidolon.net: Australian SF Online
Cherry Wilder
from the

British Science Fiction Association The British Science Fiction Association Limited is an organisation founded in 1958 by a group of British academics, science fiction fans, authors, publishers and booksellers, in order to promote the writing, criticism, and study of science fiction ...

Cherry Wilder bibliography
from Fantastic Fiction *
Bibliography
at SciFan

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