Lucy Sussex was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has abiding interests in women’s lives, Australiana, and crime fiction. Her award-winning fiction includes the novel, The Scarlet Rider (1996, reprint Ticonderoga 2015), and her anthology She’s Fantastical was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. She has five short story collections. Her Women Writers and Detectives in the Nineteenth Century (2012) examines the mothers of the mystery genre. Blockbuster: Fergus Hume and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (Text), won the 2015 Victorian Community History Award and was shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award. In 2018 she was a Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria.

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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 – and more.

Fantasy has always been a rebel’s mode, a means of sneakily saying unwelcome or disturbing things about society, or of offering a more or less plausible alternative to it. The stories and poems in this book are all, 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

Shortlisted, World Fantasy Award

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Lucy Sussex and Judith Buckrich (Eds)

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 – and more.

Fantasy has always been a rebel’s mode, a means of sneakily saying unwelcome or disturbing things about society, or of offering a more or less plausible alternative to it. The stories and poems in this book are all, one way or another, fantastic; all are rebellious, subversive, critical, or teasing, cheerfully or fiercely knocking the posts from under the Status Quo.
—Ursula K. Le Guin

ISBN 9781742195209 | 260 pp

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Lucy Sussex and Judith Buckrich (Eds)

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 – and more.

Fantasy has always been a rebel’s mode, a means of sneakily saying unwelcome or disturbing things about society, or of offering a more or less plausible alternative to it. The stories and poems in this book are all, one way or another, fantastic; all are rebellious, subversive, critical, or teasing, cheerfully or fiercely knocking the posts from under the Status Quo.
—Ursula K. Le Guin

ISBN 9781742195209 | 260 pp