Caroline Hardaker
{{Short description|British author (born 1986)}}
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Caroline Hardaker (born 1986) is an English poet and novelist. She was born in North East England, and currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. Hardaker has published two collections of her poems, Bone Ovation (2017) and Little Quakes Every Day (2017), described by John Clute as exploring "the permanence of Time, of bones, of the past within a fleece of transmutations". She has also published two science fiction/horror novels, Composite Creatures (2021), set in a near future damaged by climate change, and Mothtown (2023), about loneliness, grief and escape to the multiverse.
Composite Creatures was shortlisted for the 2022 Kitschies Award for Best Debut Novel. It was also selected by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar as one of the best science fiction, fantasy and horror books of 2021 for The Washington Post.
Bibliography
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{{cite web |last=Clute |first=John |author-link=John Clute |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hardaker_caroline |title=Hardaker, Caroline |website=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |date=20 November 2023 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
{{cite web |url=https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6088857 |title=Composite Creatures {{!}} Hardaker, Caroline, 1986– |website=Hennepin County Library |access-date=28 December 2023}}
{{cite web |url=https://lithub.com/author/chardaker/ |title=Caroline Hardaker |website=Literary Hub |access-date=28 December 2023}}
{{cite news |last1=Moreno-Garcia |first1=Silvia |last2=Tidhar |first2=Lavie |author-link1=Silvia Moreno-Garcia |author-link2=Lavie Tidhar |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/11/18/best-science-fiction-fantasy-horror-novels/ |title=Best science fiction, fantasy and horror of 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=18 November 2021 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
{{cite magazine |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781915202734 |title=Mothtown |magazine=Publishers Weekly |issn=0000-0019 |volume=270 |issue=37 |date=11 September 2023 |access-date=17 January 2024}}
{{cite magazine |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780857669025 |title=Composite Creatures |magazine=Publishers Weekly |issn=0000-0019 |date=7 December 2020 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
{{cite web |url=https://britishfantasysociety.org/golden-jubilee-event-environmentalism-in-sffh/ |title=Golden Jubilee Event – Environmentalism in SFFH |website=British Fantasy Society |date=7 November 2022 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
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External links
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- [https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/caroline-hardaker/ Caroline Hardaker] at FantasticFiction
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Category:English science fiction writers
Category:English horror writers
Category:English women novelists
Category:21st-century English novelists
Category:21st-century English poets