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Lucy Sussex

New Zealand (b.1957)

Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author. Her first story to gain notice might be 1985's The Lipton Village Society, which involved the creation of an alternate world. In 1989 she won the Ditmar Award for My Lady Tongue about a lesbian feminist community, and her short story "Mist and Murder" won a 2008 Sir Julius Vogel Award. Her first novel came out in 1995. She is often associated with feminist science fiction.

Genres: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy

Novels

   The Peace Garden (1989)
   Deersnake (1994)
   Black Ice (1997)
   Alien Invasions (2000) (with Kerry Greenwood and Shannah Jay)
   The Scarlet Rider (2007)

Collections

   My Lady Tongue & Other Tales (1990)
   Shadow Alley (1995)
   Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies (2011)

Anthologies edited

Altered Voices (1999)
She's Fantastical (2002)

Series contributed to

Quentaris Chronicles
3. The Revognase (2003)

Conversation Pieces
12. Absolute Uncertainty (2006)

Twelve Planets
3. Thief of Lives (2012)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Lucy Sussex

Borderlands - Riding the Slipstream (2024)
edited by
Paul Collins

Oz is Burning (2020)
edited by
Phyllis Irene Radford

Aurum (2018)
A Golden Anthology of Original Australian Fantasy
edited by
Russell B Farr

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Awards

	2004 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette : La Sentinelle
	2003 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story : La Sentinelle
	2002 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story : Absolute Uncertainty
	1997 Ditmar Award for Best Novel : The Scarlet Rider
	1997 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story : Merlusine
	1989 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story : My Lady Tongue

Award nominations

	2024 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Antarctica Starts Here
	2012 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex
	2012 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Alchemy
	2009 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : Something Better than Death
	2006 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Matricide
	2006 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The Revenant
	2004 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Frozen Charlottes
	2001 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (nominee) : Absolute Uncertainty
	1999 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (nominee) : The Queen of Erewhon
	1999 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The Queen of Erewhon
	1997 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (nominee) : Merlusine
	1997 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Black Ice
	1996 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : She's Fantastical: The First Anthology of Australian Women's Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism and Fantasy
	1995 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Deersnake
	1994 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Lottery
	1991 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : God and Her Black Sense of Humour
	1991 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : My Lady Tongue & Other Tales
	1986 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Montage
	1986 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Lipton Village Society

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