Cherry Wilder


Cherry Barbara Grimm, better known by the pseudonym Cherry Wilder, was a New Zealand science fiction and fantasy writer.

Biography

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Lockett attended Nelson College for Girls in Nelson and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch before first moving to Australia and then, in 1976 to Langen, Hessen, 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 over 50 short stories and novels. She died on 14 March 2002, in Wellington, New Zealand, aged 71.

Books

The Torin Trilogy

  1. The Luck of Brin's Five – Won the 1978 Ditmar Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel
  2. The Nearest Fire
  3. The Tapestry Warriors
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

  1. A Princess of the Chameln
  2. Yorath the Wolf
  3. The Summer's King
  4. The Wanderer with Katya Reimann, 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

  5. Second Nature
  6. Signs of Life

    Other books