Lucy Sussex
Author of Altered Voices
About the Author
Works by Lucy Sussex
She's Fantastical: The First Anthology of Australian Women's Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism and Fantasy (1995) — Editor, Contributor — 33 copies
Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre (2010) 11 copies
My Lady Tongue [short story] 5 copies
Absolute Uncertainty [short story] 4 copies
The Queen of Erewhon 4 copies
Kay and Phil 4 copies
Frozen Charlottes 4 copies
Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies 3 copies
The Lipton Village Society 3 copies
A Sentimental Sordid Education 3 copies
Ardent Clouds 3 copies
Robots And Zombies Inc 2 copies
The Lottery [short story] 2 copies
Apocalypse Now [short story] 2 copies
Mist and Murder 2 copies
A Tour Guide in Utopia [short story] 2 copies
Contrary modes : proceedings of the World Science Fiction Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 1985 (1985) — Editor — 2 copies
Montage 2 copies
Matricide 2 copies
Runaways 2 copies
The Ghost of Mrs Rochester 2 copies
Merlusine 2 copies
Red Ochre 2 copies
The Parish and Mrs Brown 2 copies
La Sentinelle 2 copies
Duchess 1 copy
Something Better Than Death 1 copy
Adeline 1 copy
A Small Star of Cold 1 copy
The Lady with the Ermine 1 copy
The Man Hanged Upside Down 1 copy
Quartet in Death Minor 1 copy
The Gloaming 1 copy
The Revenant 1 copy
Go-To 1 copy
Associated Works
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices (2008) — Contributor — 132 copies
Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction (2008) — Contributor — 95 copies
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950–1985 (2021) — Contributor — 69 copies
The Women Who Walk Through Fire : Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction (1990) — Contributor — 39 copies
The Road to Camelot: Tales of the Young Merlin, Arthur, Lancelot and More (2002) — Contributor — 38 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 2008, Vol. 115, No. 6 (1973) — Contributor — 23 copies
Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse (2013) — Contributor — 12 copies
Science Fiction Eye #07, August 1990 — Contributor — 1 copy
The Only one in the World — Contributor — 1 copy
Science Fiction Eye #08, Winter 1991 — Contributor — 1 copy
The Detectives' Album: Stories Of Crime And Mystery From Colonial Australia (2003) — Editor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Sussex, Lucy
- Birthdate
- 1957
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Australia
- Birthplace
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Places of residence
- France
United Kingdom
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
New Zealand - Education
- Monash University
University of Wales - Occupations
- author
editor
reviewer
academic
teacher - Organizations
- Australian Science Fiction Review: Second Series (co-editor)
- Awards and honors
- A. Bertram Chandler Memorial Award (2003)
Members
Reviews
Blockbuster!: Fergus Hume & the Mystery of a Hansom… by Lucy Sussex
Fascinating semi-autobiography of Fergus Hume and a full biography of his blockbuster crime novel, "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab". A huge amount of research has obviously gone into this book.
This is a wonderful collection of historical personal writings, although I must say that I find (at a few weeks remove) it difficult to match the pieces themselves with the descriptors from the back:
"...including: a bride of 16; one of the first men to play Australian Rules football; a woman running away from a brutal husband; another staving off a breakdown with drugs; a family fleeing imprisonment for debt; and her own great-grandmother, who was lucky to survive the first white settlement in the Kimberleys."
In each chapter, the writing itself is bookended at front with the description of a contemporary item (possibly all from Sussex's family possessions) and some other context providing information, and at the end with what follow up Sussex has gleaned about the writers themselves. Each piece is related to some aspect of sea travel in the mid 1800s, from wealthy individuals in 'first class' to those in steerage.
It was a fascinating read, and I was finding every spare moment to come back to it. Even though the writings themselves implied that the ships did not founder on the trip in question, there were certainly moments when this was in no way convincing. Thoroughly recommended.… (more)
"...including: a bride of 16; one of the first men to play Australian Rules football; a woman running away from a brutal husband; another staving off a breakdown with drugs; a family fleeing imprisonment for debt; and her own great-grandmother, who was lucky to survive the first white settlement in the Kimberleys."
In each chapter, the writing itself is bookended at front with the description of a contemporary item (possibly all from Sussex's family possessions) and some other context providing information, and at the end with what follow up Sussex has gleaned about the writers themselves. Each piece is related to some aspect of sea travel in the mid 1800s, from wealthy individuals in 'first class' to those in steerage.
It was a fascinating read, and I was finding every spare moment to come back to it. Even though the writings themselves implied that the ships did not founder on the trip in question, there were certainly moments when this was in no way convincing. Thoroughly recommended.… (more)
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, written in the mid 1880s, was a world-wide publishing phenomenon. The story of its publication deserves a book like Blockbuster!. Reviewed at Newtown Review of Books.
why am I reading this book?
This is another book for the Australian Women's Writers Challenge. This brilliant challenge maybe found at www.goodreads.com/group/show/59176, https://www.facebook.com/AustralianWomenWriters?sk=wall.Australian_Women_Writers..., and rel="nofollow" target="_top">http://www.australianwomenwriters.com/p/australian-women-writers-book-challenge_.... It's not too late to get involved. Get reading.
about this book
This is part of a series of novella size books which is currently being by published Twelfth Planet Press (http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/). These books are short story collections. This book is a series of fairly unrelated stories;
Alchemy
Fountain of Justice
The Story of O
Thief of Lives
What I thought
This book is an interesting introduction to the work of an interesting writer. I will definitely read more from this author.
… (more)
This is another book for the Australian Women's Writers Challenge. This brilliant challenge maybe found at www.goodreads.com/group/show/59176, https://www.facebook.com/AustralianWomenWriters?sk=wall.Australian_Women_Writers..., and rel="nofollow" target="_top">http://www.australianwomenwriters.com/p/australian-women-writers-book-challenge_.... It's not too late to get involved. Get reading.
about this book
This is part of a series of novella size books which is currently being by published Twelfth Planet Press (http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/). These books are short story collections. This book is a series of fairly unrelated stories;
Alchemy
Fountain of Justice
The Story of O
Thief of Lives
What I thought
This book is an interesting introduction to the work of an interesting writer. I will definitely read more from this author.
… (more)
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