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Catriona Silvey

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Catriona Silvey was born in Glasgow and grew up in Perthshire and Derbyshire, which left her with a strange accent and a distrust of flat places. She overcame the latter to do a BA in English at Cambridge, and spent the next few years there working in scientific publishing. After that she moved to Edinburgh and did a PhD in language evolution, in the hope of finding out where all these words came from in the first place.

Following stints in Chicago and back in Cambridge, she returned to Edinburgh, where she lives with her husband, children, and a very peculiar cat. When she's not working as a solutions developer for a software company, she writes science fiction and fantasy. Her debut novel Meet Me in Another Life was published in 2021. It w
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A Meet Me in Another Life short story

If you're signed up to my newsletter, you'll already know this. (If you want to, you can sign up on my website.) But if not: I wrote a Meet Me in Another Life short story.

After I handed in the final edit, the characters wouldn't leave me alone. When you finish a long project, there is always a mourning process; in this case, the mourning had a shape, and the shape it took on was a story.

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Published on December 14, 2023 06:31

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“You can't ever know someone completely. You have to be everything to them and that's impossible.”
Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“Little kids all love the stars. They want to be astronauts. Explore the universe, see what no one else has ever seen. But then we get older and--we stop looking up. We keep our eyes on the ground and decide to be something realistic.”
Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“She is an accident of atoms, and when life is done with her, she will disperse.”
Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

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