About
Raima Larter was once a chemistry professor in Indiana who secretly wrote fiction and poetry and tucked it away in drawers, but now she writes full-time and out in the open. Her work has appeared in Utopia Science Fiction, Gargoyle, Chantwood Magazine, Cleaver, BULL, Linden Avenue, Funny Pearls, Another Chicago Magazine and others. Her first two novels, “Fearless,” and “Belle o’ the Waters,” were published in 2019 and her nonfiction popular science book, “Spiritual Insights from the New Science: Complex Systems and Life,” was published in May of this year. Since then she has published three more books, including a story collection, a novel, and a novella. Read more about her work at raimalarter.com.
Featured Work
The Kiss Catastrophe
It is 2071, 29 years after Earth's Great Climate Catastrophe. Syd, a chemist at a powerful mega-corporation, meets Jake who takes her to a cave that contains a portal to another planet, Cascadia, an oceanic world suffering its own climate crisis. Meanwhile on Cascadia, Ruddy, a poet employed by the Ministry of Poetry is pursued by resistance forces of an enslaved minority, the In-Between, who see him as the key to their deliverance. An explosion strands him and an In-Betweener scientist on Earth and the four must join forces to save both planets from their climate crises.
Other Works
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Silver Rush
2025
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Motherhood and Other Magical Realms
2022
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Spiritual Insights from the New Science: Complex Systems and Life
2021
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Belle o' the Waters
2019
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Fearless
2019
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The Gate of Heaven and Other Story Worlds
2012
Press and Media Mentions
- Interview by the Little Patuxent Review: "Q&A with Raima Larter, a double-threat in science and fiction writing"
- Bedtime Stories: August 2021 August 25, 2021 What do book lovers have queued up on their nightstands and ready to read before lights-out? We asked one of them (Raima Larter), and here’s what she said.
- Review of Novel, "Belle o' the Waters" by the Historical Novel Society
- Review of "Belle o' the Waters" by the Washington Independent Review of Books; "A sweeping, 19th-century saga of persecuted Mormons fleeing west to Utah."
- Review of "Belle o' the Waters" by Historical Fiction Reviews
