Cherry Wilder was the pseudonym

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 of science fiction

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 and fantasy

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 writer Cherry Barbara Grimm, née Lockett, who was born in Auckland, New Zealand.

Lockett attended Nelson Girls High in Nelson

Nelson, New Zealand

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 and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch

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 before first moving to Australia

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 and then, in 1976 to Langen

Langen, Hesse

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, Hessen, Germany

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. She chose the pseudonym "Cherry Wilder" when she began writing science fiction stories in 1974. She published over fifty short stories and novels.

The Torin Trilogy

1. The Luck of Brin's Five (1977) - Won the 1978 Ditmar Award
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    for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel
2. The Nearest Fire (1982)
3. The Tapestry Warriors (1986)

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 (1984)
2. Yorath the Wolf (1984)
3. The Summer's King (1986)
   • The Wanderer (2004) with Katya Reimann
     Katya Reimann
     -The Tielmaran Chronicles :# Wind From a Foreign Sky # A Tremor in the Bitter Earth # Prince of Fire and Ashes -Rulers of Hylor:Upon the death of Cherry Wilder, Reimann completed the final book in the series:...
     
     , published posthumously. The Wanderer was to be the first in a new trilogy set in the world of the Rulers of Hylor trilogy.

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 Ditmar Award
  Ditmar Award
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   for Best Australian Long Fiction
• "The Phobos Transcripts" (1975)
• "Way Out West" (1975) - Nominated for the 1976 Ditmar Award
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   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
  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...
  
  (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
  Dreaming Down-Under
  Dreaming Down-Under is a 1998 speculative fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb-Background:Dreaming Down-Under was first published in Australia in November 1998 by Voyager Books in trade paperback format....
  
  (ed. Jack Dann
  Jack Dann
  Jack Dann 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-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres...
  
  , Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb
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  ) (set in the world of the Torin trilogy)
• "Saturday" (2000)
• "Aotearoa" (2001)

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.

External links

• 1999 interview with Miriam Hurst
• Interview with Mary O'Keefe in Scheherazade

Bibliographies

• Cherry Wilder Homesite from eidolon.net: Australian SF Online
• Cherry Wilder from the British Science Fiction Association
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• Cherry Wilder bibliography from Fantastic Fiction
• Bibliography at SciFan
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• Stories, Listed by Author from The Locus Index to Science Fiction