Octavia Cade

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2014
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Fairytale Retellings: The Little Mermaid

The Mussel Eater (Nov-2014)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Trading Rosemary

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    In a world where experience is currency, Rosemary is the owner of a very special library -- a library of memory, where scented coins transfer personal experience from one individual to another. When she trades away the sole memory of her grandmother'...

  • The Don't Girls

    Bluebeard’s wife is told by her husband to never go into his dungeon. When she does, she finds the mutilated corpses of his previous wives -- and Pandora. With the help of Pandora’s magical box, the two travel through time and space, searching ou...

  • The Life in Papers of Sofie K.

    When Sofie is a small girl, her Nanny teaches her nightmares. Witches, werewolves, the Black Death... Sofie is raised, screaming, on a surfeit of monsters. But when the monsters become real, brought to life and tumbled together into her own shadow-se...

  • The Mussel Eater

    Fairytale Retellings: The Little Mermaid

    ""I was curious," she says, when he asks her. She has seen him eyeing her, seen him moving closer, and holds out one of her hands. It is stronger than his, and the nails are pointed. "Are you curious, too?" Karitoki is fascina"...

  • The August Birds

    August is nine years old, and dreams of becoming a scientist. This is a dream that will never come true, because August is dying. The only dream that's left to him now is that of reaching his tenth birthday, on the last day of the month he was named ...

  • The Ghost of Matter

    1886. Two young boys disappear in the Sounds. Their mother grieves, all the music cut out of her heart; their father wanders the coast for a year, wanting and not wanting to find any part of them left behind. And their brother Ern, faced with a probl...

  • The Convergence of Fairy Tales

    The Sleeping Beauty woke with a heartbeat between her legs. Five classic fairy tales are reimagined by award-winning master of horror Octavia Cade in The Convergence of Fairy Tales. Sleeping Beauty. The Snow Queen. Snow White. The Frog Princess. Rapu...

  • Food and Horror

  • Sharp & Sugar Tooth

    Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up To No Good is a horror anthology of dark fiction and darker appetites, edited by Octavia Cade. Containing 22 stories of “bad” women, and “good” women who just haven’t been caught yet, it features 22 fearless wr...



  • S&ST for Kira

    Personalized copy for Kira of Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up To No Good per Kickstarter reward. Just for one copy. Hi di diddly do. Hi di diddly day. Let's all sing til we get to 200 characters.

    ...

  • Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy

    For the first time ever, the best short SFF from Aotearoa New Zealand is collected together in a single volume.

    This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short spe...

  • The Stone Weta

    We talk about the tyranny of distance a lot in this country. That distance will not save us.With governments denying climate science, scientists from affected countries and organisations are forced to traffic data to ensure the preservation of resear...

  • The Mythology of Salt and Other Stories

    A collection of short stories themed around women and knowledge, The Mythology of Salt and Other Stories is full of poignant moments. Scientists and ghosts, the natural world and mythology, all meet and circle one another in choreography at times asp...

  • The Impossible Resurrection of Grief

    In a dying world, Grief has a life of its own. With the collapse of ecosystems and the extinction of species comes the Grief: an unstoppable melancholia that ends in suicide. When Ruby’s friend, mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef, succumbs...

  • Reckoning 7

    [O]ne of those speculative fiction magazines that I get genuinely excited to read because the kind of stories they publish are always some concept or execution I've never seen before.-Alex Brown, reviewer for Tor.comReckoning 7, edited by Octavia Cad...

  • You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories

    Sometimes change can hurt. This collection of short stories traces the growing pains of a new world, beginning with the death throes of our current way of life and ending with a world transformed by science and technology, and by grief, hope, love, a...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Octavia Cade has published 16 books.

Octavia Cade does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Octavia Cade, Trading Rosemary, was published in January 2014.

No. Octavia Cade does not write books in series.
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