Description
The first anthology of Australian women's speculative fiction, magic realism and fantasy A pregnant spaceman. A witch. A knight-errant princess. The nuns of St Mary Magdalene. A time-traveller. Love and lyrebirds. Dreams and poetry. Philosophy. The creation of the universe. Two very different angels. Were-marsupials...
About the Author
Judith Raphael Buckrich was born in Budapest and emigrated to Australia in 1958. She is the author of several local histories, a biography of George Turner (1999) and co-editor of She's Fantastical (1995). She has been very active in PEN in Australia and is convenor of International PEN's International Women Writers' Committee. Lucy Sussex was born in New Zealand and is published widely as a reviewer and literary critic. She is also an author of sci-fi, horror and detective stories. She edited The Fortunes of Mary Fortune (1989) and was co-editor of She's Fantastical (1995), among others. Her short story "My Lady Tongue" won the Ditmar (Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award) in 1988. In 1994 she was a judge for the International Tiptree Award for speculative fiction. Among her books are My Lady Tongue and Other Tales (1990), The Scarlet Rider (1996). She has published novels for children, young adults and adults. Her first book was The Peace Garden (1989), followed by Deersnake (1994), The Penguin Friend (1997) and Black Ice (1997). The Revognase, part of the Quentaris series, was published in 2003 and Absolute Uncertainty (2006). Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies, a collection of her best writing is due out in 2011. She writes a weekly review column in the Sunday Age and the West Australian.
Reviews
'Fantasy has always been a rebel's mode, a means of sneakily saying unwelcome or disturbing things about one's society, or of offering a more or less plausible alternative to it. The stories and poems in this book are all, in one way or another, fantastic, all are rebellious, subversive, critical, or teasing, cheerfully or fiercely knocking the posts from under the Status Quo... Mothers and daughters, women friends, women lovers, women and children, women and animals - the book is full of pairings, interweavings, minglings, transformations, transgressions of boundaries between generations, between species, between realms. Borders which we're used to seeing well sprayed and marked with neat piles of scat become crossings, trysting places, meeting grounds... ' - Ursula K. Le Guin
Book Information
ISBN 9780908205127
Author Lucy Sussex
Format Paperback
Page Count 260
Imprint Spinifex Press
Publisher Spinifex Press
Weight(grams) 370g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 10mm
About the Author
Judith Raphael Buckrich was born in Budapest and emigrated to Australia in 1958. She is the author of several local histories, a biography of George Turner (1999) and co-editor of She's Fantastical (1995). She has been very active in PEN in Australia and is convenor of International PEN's International Women Writers' Committee. Lucy Sussex was born in New Zealand and is published widely as a reviewer and literary critic. She is also an author of sci-fi, horror and detective stories. She edited The Fortunes of Mary Fortune (1989) and was co-editor of She's Fantastical (1995), among others. Her short story "My Lady Tongue" won the Ditmar (Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award) in 1988. In 1994 she was a judge for the International Tiptree Award for speculative fiction. Among her books are My Lady Tongue and Other Tales (1990), The Scarlet Rider (1996). She has published novels for children, young adults and adults. Her first book was The Peace Garden (1989), followed by Deersnake (1994), The Penguin Friend (1997) and Black Ice (1997). The Revognase, part of the Quentaris series, was published in 2003 and Absolute Uncertainty (2006). Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies, a collection of her best writing is due out in 2011. She writes a weekly review column in the Sunday Age and the West Australian.
Reviews
'Fantasy has always been a rebel's mode, a means of sneakily saying unwelcome or disturbing things about one's society, or of offering a more or less plausible alternative to it. The stories and poems in this book are all, in one way or another, fantastic, all are rebellious, subversive, critical, or teasing, cheerfully or fiercely knocking the posts from under the Status Quo... Mothers and daughters, women friends, women lovers, women and children, women and animals - the book is full of pairings, interweavings, minglings, transformations, transgressions of boundaries between generations, between species, between realms. Borders which we're used to seeing well sprayed and marked with neat piles of scat become crossings, trysting places, meeting grounds... ' - Ursula K. Le Guin
Book Information
ISBN 9780908205127
Author Lucy Sussex
Format Paperback
Page Count 260
Imprint Spinifex Press
Publisher Spinifex Press
Weight(grams) 370g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 10mm
