Cherry Potts, Writer

Category: Science Fiction

  • Pretending poetry, songs of liberty and Ursula le Guin

    The thing about running your own business is that holidays become almost entirely theoretical. It’s a holiday to leave the computer for long enough to hang out the washing on a sunny day, it’s a holiday to take the long way to the post office, it’s a holiday to read something that isn’t for work,…

  • Additional panel at LonCon3

    I’ve been asked to step in last-minute to moderate another panel at LonCon3 Reimagining Families (Thursday 11:00) In a 2013 column for Tor.com, Alex Dally MacFarlane called for a greater diversity in the way SF and fantasy represent families, pointing out that in the real world, “People of all sexualities and genders join together in…

  • LonCon 3 – Suggestions?

    So I’m on a couple of panels for LonCon 3, and I need to do some homework so that I’m properly on the ball. Suggested (re)reading (and viewing I suppose) please, from all you SF fans out there. First one: WE CAN REBUILD YOU. SF medicine regularly comes up with “cures” for disabled bodies —…

  • Awards and Mermaids

    It’s been an exciting week. First I won an award for one of the anthologies I edited for Arachne Press – Weird Lies – The Saboteur2014 Best Anthology Award! It’s one of very few independent awards, voted for by the book-reading public, and it was thrilling to win. They don’t tell you beforehand and being…

  • bright shiny new book

    So I’ve been working through the first box of books sending them out to reviewers. And I’ve been so busy organising things I didn’t get round to posting on the website, so (Trumpet fanfare!!) Mosaic of Air is here, and will be in the shops on 26th September. There will be a launch party at…

  • Inspirations – Marvell and computers

    The short story Mosaic of Air, (title story of my first collection and republished this coming September)  began life in a computer literacy class in the late 1980’s. I was bored, the class was going slowly, and I’d been given some BASIC code to play with.  I started to imagine what would happen if the…