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Sylvia Spruck Wrigley was born in Germany and spent her childhood in Los Angeles. She emigrated to Scotland where she guided German tourists around the Trossachs and searched for the supernatural. She now lives in Tallinn where she writes about plane crashes and Estonian air maidens, which have more in common than most people might imagine. Her fiction was nominated for a Nebula in 2014 and her short stories have been translated into over a dozen languages. Her first novella, Domnall and the Borrowed Child, was published in 2015 by Tor.com and is available now at all good book stores. You can find out more about her at http://intrigue.co.uk/
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Published May 3, 2020 · 1,018 words (4 minutes) · 279 views
Science Fiction penal colonies
I grew up in the American West and so the idea of the frontier and encountering the residents (and painfully misunderstanding them) is very familiar to me. When I look at exploration on Earth, it’s been about solving a problem: a need for land, a way to distract problem people, a place to ship undesirables.
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Published Sep 11, 2019 · 663 words (3 minutes) · 434 views
Humor Science Fiction space teaching postmark andromeda colonies hardship
Moving away from home to work can be a traumatising experience for everyone...
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Published Jun 3, 2019 · 1,019 words (4 minutes) · 6 likes · 881 views
A woman got off light for her husband's murder: only 5 months' transport and 20 years hard labor off-world. But something shimmery, green, and definitely not human lurks outside the colony's walls. Author Sylvia Spruck Wrigley lives in Tallinn, and her work has been nominated for a Nebula and been published by Tor.com, Nature Futures, and many others.
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Published May 25, 2019 · 740 words (3 minutes) · 1 like · 415 views
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Published Mar 12, 2019 · 214 words (1 minute) · 1 like · 524 views
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Published Mar 2, 2019 · 1,864 words (7 minutes) · 503 views
SF, after the occupation. Originally published in The Journal of Unlikely Entomology.