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The Duchess of Newcastle – Lucy Sussex

Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction
Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction
The Duchess of Newcastle - Lucy Sussex
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Appeared in Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores (DreamHaven Books)

Lucy Sussex was born in New Zealand in 1957. She has degrees in English and Librarianship from Monash University, and is a freelance researcher, editor and writer. She has published widely, writing anything from literary criticism to horror and detective stories. In addition she is a literary archaeologist, rediscovering and republishing the nineteenth-century Australian crime writers Mary Fortune and Ellen Davitt. Her short story, `My Lady Tongue’ won a Ditmar (Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award) in 1988. In 1994 she was a judge for the international Tiptree award, which honours speculative fiction exploring notions of gender. Her first adult novel, The Scarlet Rider, is about biography, Victorian detective fiction, voodoo and a ghost.

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Keith Stevenson reviews  Managing Death by Trent Jamieson.

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