Kuroki, Poppy
Entry updated 15 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1993- ) Scottish author, in Japan 2014-2025; her first series, the Black Diamond Origin sequence beginning with Oath (2020), is fantasy [the series is not listed below]. She is of sf interest for the Ancestor Memories series beginning with Gate to Kagoshima (2024), whose protagonist is dropped by a form of Time Travel into end-of-eighteenth-century Japan, where she falls in love with a samurai. The times are fraught. [JC]
Poppy Kuroki
born Scotland: 13 February 1993
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series
Ancestor Memories
- Gate to Kagoshima (London: Oneworld Publications, 2024) [Ancestor Memories: pb/]
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