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stevie_carroll lived just down the M27 from me. Since then we've become regular "meeters up for lunch". Stevie does tend to hide her light under a bushel - she was long listed for the prestigious Tiptree Award yet you have to prize the information about it out of her. which is just what I've done...
What inspired you to start writing?
I think I've always written. I remember once being told that I couldn't go out on my bike until I'd finished my homework, so my friend and I produced a combined effort (he wasn't even at my school!) of a science fiction story for my English creative writing assignment.
I wrote a lot while I was at university, and various bits and pieces were published in zines, including BiFrost which I thought particularly exciting since the editor had managed to obtain an ISBN for it so that all subsequent editions would have copies in the British Library.
Then I didn't write much again until the very end of the 1990s...
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Echoes of Possibilities: Four unconventional m/f erotic romances set in very different futures. Including a trans* character, a cyborg, an alien, a female ex-president of the United States and their equally remarkable lovers.
'The Monitors' by Stevie Carroll: Born blind in a universe where genetic abnormalities are screened out at conception, Stuart, a monitor -- the human backup to computer controls on a deep space colony transport -- dreams of an academic research post, a family and a permanent home. As a transman, still saving for the last of his operations, he wonders what woman would love a guy like him.
Expecting a routine shift-change, Stuart is astonished and delighted when he is propositioned by Claire, a deaf woman who has broken away from her family and now wants to experience as much of the universe as possible. The instantaneous chemistry between them breaks down Stuart's inhibitions about sex on duty -- and on a first date -- but he has no idea if Claire will put her travel plans on hold until his transition is complete, and he is ready to go with her as a whole man.
stevie_carroll lived just down the M27 from me. Since then we've become regular "meeters up for lunch". Stevie does tend to hide her light under a bushel - she was long listed for the prestigious Tiptree Award yet you have to prize the information about it out of her. which is just what I've done...What inspired you to start writing?
I think I've always written. I remember once being told that I couldn't go out on my bike until I'd finished my homework, so my friend and I produced a combined effort (he wasn't even at my school!) of a science fiction story for my English creative writing assignment.
I wrote a lot while I was at university, and various bits and pieces were published in zines, including BiFrost which I thought particularly exciting since the editor had managed to obtain an ISBN for it so that all subsequent editions would have copies in the British Library.
Then I didn't write much again until the very end of the 1990s...
( Read more... )
Echoes of Possibilities: Four unconventional m/f erotic romances set in very different futures. Including a trans* character, a cyborg, an alien, a female ex-president of the United States and their equally remarkable lovers.
'The Monitors' by Stevie Carroll: Born blind in a universe where genetic abnormalities are screened out at conception, Stuart, a monitor -- the human backup to computer controls on a deep space colony transport -- dreams of an academic research post, a family and a permanent home. As a transman, still saving for the last of his operations, he wonders what woman would love a guy like him.
Expecting a routine shift-change, Stuart is astonished and delighted when he is propositioned by Claire, a deaf woman who has broken away from her family and now wants to experience as much of the universe as possible. The instantaneous chemistry between them breaks down Stuart's inhibitions about sex on duty -- and on a first date -- but he has no idea if Claire will put her travel plans on hold until his transition is complete, and he is ready to go with her as a whole man.
