Absolute Uncertainty collects seven stories�three of them new�by Lucy Sussex, as well as an interview conducted by Maureen Kincaid Speller. In these stories, a fashionista becomes obsessed with the uncanny resemblance of the dazzling, eccentric "Lady Sanspareille" to the seventeenth-century Duchess of Newcastle; a young man loses his virginity in more than one sense of the word; an older writer shares her insight with Philip K. Dick, who really needs it; in Biocultural Studies 101, a class examines moral ambiguities and the limits of biography in the case of Werner Heisenberg, "a real slippery customer," via a high-tech "interactive template." y Lady Tongue�. This is an Australian edition. Book DetailsISBN | 1-933500-06-9 | Format | Paperback | Category | Fiction | Publisher | Aqueduct Press | Publication Date | 2006 | Pages | 280 |
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