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'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)

Notes

  • Dedication: In memory of Joanna Russ and Peter McNamara.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Greenwood, Joondalup area, Northern Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Ticonderoga Publications , 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Merlusine, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy science fiction (p. 21-48)
Kay and Phil, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction (p. 49-69)
My Lady Tongue, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction (p. 71-112)
The Lottery, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction (p. 113-120)
A Tour Guide in Utopia, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy
Sussex has a fictional meeting with the young Victorian writer Ida Pemberton, who has been projected forward into the Melbourne of 1993, a world Pemberton predicted in an actual short story a century earlier. Since Ida Pemberton died at the early age of twenty-six in 1894 from tuberculosis, Sussex is able to weave an effective "what if" story from what actually was' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.54).

 (p. 121-128)
Robots & Zombies, Inc., Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction (p. 129-134)
The Lipton Village Society, Lucy Sussex , single work short story (p. 135-150)
Duchess, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy (p. 151-164)
Montage, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction (p. 165-178)
Albert and Victoria : Slow Dreams, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy (p. 179-194)
Ardent Clouds, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction (p. 195-215)
La Sentinelle, Lucy Sussex , single work novella horror fantasy (p. 217-268)
Frozen Charlottes, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy (p. 269-280)
Matricide, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction (p. 281-297)
Something Better Than Death, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy (p. 299-314)
The Revenant, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy (p. 315-324)
Mist and Murder, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy (p. 315-368)
Absolute Uncertainty, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction (p. 325-349)
Red Ochre, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction

Fogarty's Animal Show, mistaken for carriers of the DNA plague that turned humans and animals into 'Muties', runs into prejudice that has Murri employee Ian Limrock hospitalised in the Mutie reserve. Drawing analogs between lepers, Aboriginal persecution, and the Muties, Ian finds - or redefines - his roots.

 (p. 369-389)
The Queen of Erewhon, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy science fiction (p. 391-415)
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Works about this Work

Locus Looks at Books Gary K. Wolfe , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Locus , September vol. 67 no. 3 (608) 2011; (p. 18-19, 61)
— Review of Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies : The Essential Lucy Sussex Lucy Sussex , 2011 selected work short story
Impressive Collections Colin Steele , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 December 2011; (p. 24)
— Review of The Hall of Lost Footsteps Sara Douglass , 2011 selected work short story ; Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies : The Essential Lucy Sussex Lucy Sussex , 2011 selected work short story
Impressive Collections Colin Steele , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 December 2011; (p. 24)
— Review of The Hall of Lost Footsteps Sara Douglass , 2011 selected work short story ; Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies : The Essential Lucy Sussex Lucy Sussex , 2011 selected work short story
Locus Looks at Books Gary K. Wolfe , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Locus , September vol. 67 no. 3 (608) 2011; (p. 18-19, 61)
— Review of Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies : The Essential Lucy Sussex Lucy Sussex , 2011 selected work short story
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