Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies single work   short story   fantasy  
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies
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The 'true' account of the events that led to the story recounted in Waltzing Matilda by A. B. Paterson. The story is told through the voice of the bunyip who inhabits the billabong at which the events are said to have unfolded.

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    y separately published work icon Dreaming Down-Under Jack Dann (editor), Janeen Webb (editor), Pymble : Voyager , 1998 Z1016851 1998 anthology short story science fiction fantasy Pymble : Voyager , 1998 pg. 88-95
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    y separately published work icon Dreaming Down-Under : Book Two Jack Dann (editor), Janeen Webb (editor), Sydney : Voyager , 2000 Z954723 2000 anthology short story science fiction fantasy horror Sydney : Voyager , 2000 pg. 93-106
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    y separately published work icon A Tour Guide in Utopia Lucy Sussex , Parramatta : MirrorDanse Editions , 2005 Z1228043 2005 selected work short story novella prose fantasy science fiction horror A small press collection of short stories, all previously published, some dating from 1994. Parramatta : MirrorDanse Editions , 2005 pg. 7-17
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    y separately published work icon Absolute Uncertainty : Short Fiction Lucy Sussex , Seattle : Aqueduct Press , 2006 Z1481478 2006 selected work short story interview science fiction fantasy Seattle : Aqueduct Press , 2006 pg. 48-60
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    y separately published work icon Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies : The Essential Lucy Sussex Lucy Sussex , Greenwood : Ticonderoga Publications , 2011 Z1770352 2011 selected work short story 'Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex collects 25 stories spanning the amazing 28 year career of one of the legends of Australian genre fiction.' (Publisher's blurb) Greenwood : Ticonderoga Publications , 2011 pg. 491-500
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Related Works

y separately published work icon Waltzing Matilda : Carrying a Swag Waltzing Matilda i "Oh! there once was a swagman camped in the billabong,", A. B. Paterson , 1895 (Manuscript version)x401512 Z1233834 1895 single work poetry
— Appears in: Saltbush Bill, J. P., and Other Verses 1917; (p. 23-24) Salt , 27 April vol. 3 no. 4 1942; (p. 8-9) Australian Bush Songs and Ballads 1944; (p. 77-78) The Boomerang Book of Australian Poetry 1956; (p. 145) The Penguin Australian Song Book 1964; (p. 160-161) Old Australian Ballads : An Anthology 1967; (p. 45)
— Appears in: Australia Antologio 1988; (p. 404-406)
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Works about this Work

Australian Fantasy Colin Steele , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction , November no. 84 2012; (p. 68)
— Review of Sea Hearts Margo Lanagan , 2012 single work novel ; Mistification Kaaron Warren , 2010 single work novel ; Metro Winds Isobelle Carmody , 2012 selected work short story ; The Vanishing Act Mette Jakobsen , 2011 single work novel ; The Hall of Lost Footsteps Sara Douglass , 2011 selected work short story ; Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies Lucy Sussex , 1998 single work short story ; The Wicked Wood 2011 anthology short story
Australian Fantasy Colin Steele , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction , November no. 84 2012; (p. 68)
— Review of Sea Hearts Margo Lanagan , 2012 single work novel ; Mistification Kaaron Warren , 2010 single work novel ; Metro Winds Isobelle Carmody , 2012 selected work short story ; The Vanishing Act Mette Jakobsen , 2011 single work novel ; The Hall of Lost Footsteps Sara Douglass , 2011 selected work short story ; Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies Lucy Sussex , 1998 single work short story ; The Wicked Wood 2011 anthology short story
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