SUSSEX, Lucy

(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 andNorman Talbot, and a co-editor of AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW: SECOND SERIES for its first 2 years (1986-7). At about the same time she began publishing promising sf FABULATIONS like "The Lipton Village Society" (1985), about alienated people creating an ALTERNATE WORLD byforce of will. This and "My Lady Tongue" (1988), about life inside (and outside) a utopian FEMINIST lesbian community, and "God and Her Black Sense of Humour" (1990), about immortal semen-swallowing vampires (SUPERNATURAL CREATURES), are assembled with others in My Lady Tongue \& Other Tales (coll 1990). LS'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.

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