Deep Wheel Orcadia

Name: Deep Wheel Orcadia
ISBN: 9781529431988

by Harry Josephine Giles

Arthur C. · 2022 · Winner

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PicadorOctober 7, 2021Science Fiction & FantasyISBN 9781529431988

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Arthur C. Clarke Award	2022	Winner	“Harry Josephine Giles won for a formally unprecedented achievement: a novel written entirely in Orkney Scots dialect—a small-press publication that the Clarke judges recognized as the most genuinely experimental SF of the year.”

About This Book

Written entirely in Orkney Scots dialect, this novel-in-verse follows a young woman who returns to a future space station community—a fragile, isolated place facing hard choices about survival, identity, and belonging.

About the Author

Harry Josephine GilesGB

Harry Josephine Giles is a Scottish poet, performer, and author who won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Deep Wheel Orcadia (2022), a novel written entirely in Orkney Scots dialect—a remarkable and unprecedented achievement for a Clarke winner. The novel is set in a future space station community and explores questions of migration, belonging, and indigenous identity. Read more →