Science Fiction & Fantasy
A Conversation with Octavia Cade by Arley Sorg
New Zealand author Octavia Cade had always planned to be a scientist when she grew up. “But as much as I love science, scientific writing sucked all my enthusiasm out. It’s the worst. It’s boring and inaccessible and scientists have no right to whine about people misunderstanding science when they have done everything they can to keep them from it.” Cade studied botany as an undergrad, and “became fascinated with algae and the intertidal zone.” She earned her master’s in biology, looking at reproductive strategies of a native seagrass, and her PhD in science communication at the University of Otago, “the biggest scicomm center in the world . . . and it’s a fantastic place to study.”
Monday, 19 April 2021, 4:14 pm | Paper Road Press Wellington-based whare perehi (publishing house) Paper Road Press is proud to announce
that several of its pukapuka (books) and kaituhi (authors) have been honoured in
the list of Sir Julius Vogel Award finalists published today. The Sir Julius Vogel . More
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Monday, 19 April 2021, 4:14 pm
Wellington-based whare perehi (publishing house) Paper
Road Press is proud to announce that several of its pukapuka
(books) and kaituhi (authors) have been honoured in the list
of Sir Julius Vogel Award finalists published
today.
The Sir Julius Vogel Awards recognise
excellence in science fiction, fantasy, or horror works
created by New Zealanders. They are named for the eighth
Premier of New Zealand, who in 1889 wrote what was probably
the first sci-fi novel by a New Zealander,
Anno Domini
2000 – A Woman’s Destiny. This pukapuka promotes a
utopian view of the future in which women would hold many