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Lucy has written over 30 short stories. Several have been nominated for or won awards. Three books collecting some of her short stories have been published, while other short stories have been published in a wide variety of anthologies and magazine.
Upcoming
Albert & Victoria/ Slow Dreams
This story about New Zealand’s glaciers and their naming has been published in Baggage ed Gillian Pollack (Eneit Press 2010) Buy Baggage from Eneit Press.
My Lady Tongue & Other Tales
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The Man Hanged Upside Down |
Reprinted in Tales of Magic Realism by Women ed. S. Sturgis (Crossing Press, US). |
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Quartet in Death Minor |
Reprinted in The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories ed. K Gelder. |
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Montage |
Reprinted in Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies |
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My Lady Tongue |
Ditmar winner 1989, reprinted four times. |
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Red Ochre |
Lucy's first film option! Reprinted twice, including the upcoming Australis Imaginarium ed. Tehani Wesley (Fablecroft, 2010) |
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The Parish and Mrs Brown |
Reprinted in Glass Reptile ed. Van Ikin (CSAL) |
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Go-To |
Translated into Japanese, Hayakawa’s SF magazine |
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The Lipton Village Society |
This story led to a letter from a children’s editor suggesting Lucy write in that genre - "So I did!" |
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God and Her Black Sense of Humour |
A story about vampire groupies
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A Tour Guide in Utopia
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Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies |
Originally published in the World Fantasy-award winner Dreaming Down Under ed. Dann and Webb |
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The Queen of Erewhon |
Originally in F&SF, appeared in Year’s Best SF 5 (2000) ed. Hartwell |
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The Gloaming |
Set around Melbourne’s General Cemetery. Originally illustrated by Trudi Canavan |
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La Sentinelle |
Won two awards, shortlisted for the IHG
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A Tour Guide in Utopia |
Originally ‘commissioned’ by The Bulletin, reprinted in The Australian Women’s Stories ed. K. Goldsworthy (OUP) |
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Kay and Phil |
Reprinted in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (won the World Fantasy Award against "She’s Fantastical") |
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The Lottery |
Originally ‘commissioned’ by The Bulletin |
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The Ghost of Mrs Rochester |
Originally illustrated by Shaun Tan |
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Merlusine
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Frozen Charlottes |
Selected for The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 18 (eds. Datlow, Link & Grant), also Encounters ed. B. Oakley |
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Runaway
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Absolute Uncertainty |
Appeared in F&SF, translated into Czech and Polish
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Absolute Uncertainty
A similar lineup to "A Tour Guide in Utopia", but with the addition of:
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Duchess |
About Margaret Cavendish, the utopia-writing Duchess of Newcastle and fashionista
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A Small Star of Cold |
Also published as "The Revenant". The Revenant was published in Eidolon I. |
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A Sentimental, Sordid Education |
The product of a sudden fascination with Cabaret Voltaire |
Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: the essential Lucy Sussex
The best of the previous anthologies, with one addition
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Merlusine |
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Kay & Phil |
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My Lady Tongue |
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The Lottery |
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Robots & Zombies, Inc. |
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Duchess |
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Montage |
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Albert & Victoria/Slow Dreams |
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Short stories published in other anthologies
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The Parish and Mrs Brown |
Dreamworks: Strange New Stories (Norstrilia Press, 1983) |
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The Lipton Village Society |
Strange Attractors (Hale & Iremonger, 1985) |
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Montage |
Urban Fantasies (Ebony Books, 1985) |
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My Lady Tongue |
Matilda at the Speed of Light (Angus & Robertson Childrens, 1988) |
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The Bogeyman |
Spine Chilling: Ten Horror Stories (Omnibus, 1992) |
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The Lottery |
The Lottery: Nine Science Fiction Stories (Omnibus, 1994) |
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Kay and Phil |
Alien Shores (Aphelion, 1994) reprinted in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women (Penguin, 1997) |
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The Lady with the Ermine |
Strange Fruit: Tales of the Unexpected (Penguin, 1995) |
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The Ghost of Mrs Rochester |
Eidolon #21, Autumn 1996 |
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Adeline |
Aurealis #18 (1996) |
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Merlusine |
The Horns of Elfland (Penguin, 1997) |
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Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies |
Dreaming Down-Under (Tor Books, 1998) |
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The Queen of Erewhon |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September 1999 |
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The Morgue |
Tales from the Wasteland: Stories from the 13th Floor (Hodder Headline, 2000) |
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The Gloaming |
Eidolon No.29/30, Autumn 2000 |
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Absolute Uncertainty |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 2001 |
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The Work of Giants — Minimus' story |
The Road to Camelot (Random House Australia, 2002) |
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Frozen Charlottes |
Forever Shores (Wakefield Press, 2003) |
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Runaway |
Agog! Terrific Tales (Agog! Press, 2003) (also known as Runaways) |
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La Sentinelle |
Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural (Sandglass Enterprises, 2003) |
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Matricide |
The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume Two (Mirrordanse Books, 2005) |
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The Revenant |
Eidolon I (Eidolon Books, 2006) |
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Mist and Murder |
New Ceres #2 (Twelfth Planet Press, 2007). Winner of the Julius Vogel Award 1998 for Best Short Story. Translated into Russian |
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Ardent Clouds |
About volcanos and their lovers, appeared in The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Datlow (Del Ray, 2008) |
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Robots and Zombies, Inc |
Published in Dreaming Again (Eos, 2008) ed. Dann. Do you want to know the truth about Ronald Reagan, Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher? |
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Riot on the State Library Lawn |
Books behaving badly… Published in Overland in short form. Contact Lucy for the longer, better form.
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Something Better than Death |
Aurealis #42 (2009). About the musicians of Bremen, a Grimm tale retold without a skerrick of Freud. Reprinted in Cat Tales (ed. Datlow) |
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