The Pocketbook Guide to Scottish Superheroes by Kirsti Wishart
When we invited Kirsti to send us a story for SF Caledonia she also asked if we were interested in a novel she had written. It’s about an alternative Scotland where folk randomly develop superpowers, she said. We’re not really geared up for publishing full length works, we said, but if you’re willing to experiment, how about releasing it as an online serial on SF Caledonia? You see, we have a soft spot for serialisations, and always fancied doing something that Walter Scott and Charles Dickens would have done in their early days.
Kirsti agreed, edited the structure to accommodate the format, added chapter teasers and here it is.
To get started, we’re publishing two chapters at a time, on the first and third Fridays of the month. So put those days in your diary and add a link to the home page, www.sfcaledonia.scot
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And, like the rest of this site, the chapters are formatted for easy reading on any device, mobile to cinema screen.
Kirsti Wishart is an Edinburgh-based writer of short stories, novels and other things. Her stories have appeared in New Writing Scotland, 404 Ink, Glasgow Review of Books, Product Magazine and been shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Trust Story Awards. She’s been a Hawthornden Fellow, a contestant in Literary Death Match and is a regular contributor to The One O’Clock Gun, a literary free-sheet found mostly in Edinburgh pubs.
—Noel Chidwick
Editor, SF Caledonia
