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Heather Parry

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Heather Parry is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year award and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize.

She is also the author of a short story collection, This Is My Body, Given For You, and a short nonfiction book, Electric Dreams: On Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism, and writes the Substack general observations on eggs. Her latest novel, Carrion Crow, was released in Feb 2025.

She was raised in Rotherham and lives in Glasgow with her partner and their cats, Fidel and Ernesto.

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It is December 31st, 2022, and here I sit with the Last Mince Pie and my last coffee of the year, cobbling together the scattered, mad pieces of a scattered, mad year. Actually—it’s not a mince pie. It’s the remnants of a traditional Italian Christmas bis...

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	Orpheus Builds a Girl 3.99 avg rating — 867 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism 4.40 avg rating — 186 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Were Always Here: A Queer Words Anthology by Ryan Vance (Editor), Michael Lee Richardson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jane Flett (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.01 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outsiders by Alice Slater (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kirsty Logan (Goodreads Author), Jen Campbell (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After the Fall - Tales of the Apocalypse by Kelly Gardner (Editor), Robert Holtom (Goodreads Author), Paul S. Huggins (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is My Body, Given for You 4.24 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Extra Teeth - Issue Two by Heather Parry (Goodreads Author) (Editors), Jules Danskin (Editor), Alice Ash (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Our ability to embrace science is hindered entirely by men who would deny the possibility of impossible things.”
― Heather Parry, Orpheus Builds a Girl

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