She's Fantastical
Lucy Sussex and Judith Buckrich (Eds)
The first anthology of Australian women’s speculative fiction, magic realism and fantasy.
A pregnant spaceman. A witch. A knight-errant princess. The nuns of St Mary Magdalene. A time traveller. Love and lyrebirds. Dreams and poetry. Philosophy. The creation of the universe. Two very different angels. Were marsupials – and more.
Fantasy has always been a rebel’s mode, a means of sneakily saying unwelcome or disturbing things about society, or of offering a more or less plausible alternative to it. The stories and poems in this book are all, one way or another, fantastic; all are rebellious, subversive, critical, or teasing, cheerfully or fiercely knocking the posts from under the Status Quo.… Mothers and daughters, women friends, women lovers, women and children, women and animals – the book is full of pairings, interweavings, minglings, transformations, transgressions of boundaries between generations, between species, between realms. Borders which we’re used to seeing well sprayed and marked with neat piles of scat become crossings, trysting places, meeting grounds…
—Ursula K. Le Guin
Shortlisted, World Fantasy Award
MAY 2011 | ISBN 9780908205127 | Paperback | 210 x 140 mm | 260 pages
eBook Available
For more paperback copies, please visit IPG Book in the US or Gazelle Book Services in the UK
Lucy Sussex and Judith Buckrich (Eds)
The first anthology of Australian women’s speculative fiction, magic realism and fantasy.
A pregnant spaceman. A witch. A knight-errant princess. The nuns of St Mary Magdalene. A time traveller. Love and lyrebirds. Dreams and poetry. Philosophy. The creation of the universe. Two very different angels. Were marsupials – and more.
Fantasy has always been a rebel’s mode, a means of sneakily saying unwelcome or disturbing things about society, or of offering a more or less plausible alternative to it. The stories and poems in this book are all, one way or another, fantastic; all are rebellious, subversive, critical, or teasing, cheerfully or fiercely knocking the posts from under the Status Quo.… Mothers and daughters, women friends, women lovers, women and children, women and animals – the book is full of pairings, interweavings, minglings, transformations, transgressions of boundaries between generations, between species, between realms. Borders which we’re used to seeing well sprayed and marked with neat piles of scat become crossings, trysting places, meeting grounds…
—Ursula K. Le Guin
Shortlisted, World Fantasy Award
MAY 2011 | ISBN 9780908205127 | Paperback | 210 x 140 mm | 260 pages
eBook Available
For more paperback copies, please visit IPG Book in the US or Gazelle Book Services in the UK
Lucy Sussex and Judith Buckrich (Eds)
The first anthology of Australian women’s speculative fiction, magic realism and fantasy.
A pregnant spaceman. A witch. A knight-errant princess. The nuns of St Mary Magdalene. A time traveller. Love and lyrebirds. Dreams and poetry. Philosophy. The creation of the universe. Two very different angels. Were marsupials – and more.
Fantasy has always been a rebel’s mode, a means of sneakily saying unwelcome or disturbing things about society, or of offering a more or less plausible alternative to it. The stories and poems in this book are all, one way or another, fantastic; all are rebellious, subversive, critical, or teasing, cheerfully or fiercely knocking the posts from under the Status Quo.… Mothers and daughters, women friends, women lovers, women and children, women and animals – the book is full of pairings, interweavings, minglings, transformations, transgressions of boundaries between generations, between species, between realms. Borders which we’re used to seeing well sprayed and marked with neat piles of scat become crossings, trysting places, meeting grounds…
—Ursula K. Le Guin
Shortlisted, World Fantasy Award
MAY 2011 | ISBN 9780908205127 | Paperback | 210 x 140 mm | 260 pages
eBook Available
For more paperback copies, please visit IPG Book in the US or Gazelle Book Services in the UK
Table of Contents
acknowledgements
saint martha according to deborah klein: cover art / Deborah Klein
foreward / Ursula Le Guin
introduction / Lucy Sussex and Judith Raphael Buckrich
two poems: ‘alinta’ and ‘maydina’ from women of the sun / Hyllus Maris
the master builder’s wife / Lisa Jacobson
the goddess wakes / Jane Routley
widow wilberforce and the lyrebird / Nadia Wheatley
the pumpkineater / Isobelle Carmody
aubade from tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / M. Barnard Eldershaw
one last picture of ruby-rose (a letter to kevin arnett) / Carmel Bird
angel thing / Petrina Smith
from the sea people / Maurilia Meehan
entropy / Leanne Frahm
science fiction / Sarah Carmela Helen Endacott
flight / Ania Walwicz
possum lover / Yvonne Rousseau
the blinding of bellevue hearn / Alison Goodman
from SAW / berni m. janssen
angel jacko / Gabrielle Lord
a sky full of ravens / Sue Isle
from a few hours in a far-off age / Henrietta Dugdale
a tour guide in utopia / Lucy Sussex
the know-all / Rosaleen Love
not with love / Philippa C. Madden
the padwan affair / Tess Williams
our mother land / Daisy Utemorrah
biographies