(1957- ) New Zealand-born writer and critic, in Australia since the age of 14. She was one of the co-editors of the anthology of sf criticism Contrary Modes (anth 1985) with Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford and Norman Talbot, and a co-editor of Australian Science Fiction Review: Second Series for its first two years (1986-1987). At about the same time she began publishing promising sf Fabulations like "The Lipton Village Society" (in Strange Attractors, anth 1985, ed Damien Broderick), about alienated people creating an Alternate History by force of will. This and "My Lady Tongue" (in Matilda at the Speed of Light, anth 1988, Damien Broderick), about life inside (and outside) a utopian Feminist lesbian community, are assembled with others including "God and Her Black Sense of Humour" – a new story about immortal semen-swallowing Vampires – in My Lady Tongue & Other Tales (coll 1990). Sussex's racy, slangy narrative voice sometimes jars with a content that seems to require a less aggressive tone. Her earlier The Peace Garden (1989), for children, is not sf or fantasy. [PN]
Lucy Sussex
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