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Hardaker, Caroline

(?   -    ) UK poet and novelist, active from around 2015; her poetry, first assembled as Bone Ovation (coll of linked poems 2017 chap) and Little Quakes Every Day (2017), exhibits a recurring focus on the permanence of Time, of bones, of the past within a fleece of transmutations. Hardaker's first novel, Composite Creatures (2021) inters its protagonists in a Near Future world choked by the effects of Climate Change; her second, Mothtown (2023), also set in a Dystopian world marked by constraint and visceral anxieties (see Horror in SF), may open for its protagonist a path into the Multiverse, where he may find a habitation. [JC]

Caroline Hardaker

born UK

works

• Composite Creatures (London: Angry Robot, 2021) [pb/]
• Mothtown (London: Angry Robot, 2023) [pb/]

collections and stories

• Bone Ovation (Scarborough, North Yorkshire: Valley Press, 2017) [poetry: coll of linked poems: chap: pb/]
• Little Quakes Every Day (Scarborough, North Yorkshire: Valley Press, 2017) [poetry: coll: chap: pb/]

links

• Caroline Hardaker
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 00:52 am on 13 January 2025.
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