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y separately published work icon A Tour Guide in Utopia selected work   short story   novella   prose   fantasy   science fiction   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 A Tour Guide in Utopia
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Parramatta, Parramatta area, Sydney, New South Wales,:MirrorDanse Editions , 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy
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.
 (p. 7-17)
The Queen of Erewhon, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy science fiction (p. 18-42)
The Gloaming, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy (p. 43-50)
La Sentinelle, Lucy Sussex , single work novella horror fantasy (p. 51-107)
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. 108-115)
Kay and Phil, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction (p. 116-139)
The Lottery, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction (p. 140-148)
The Ghost of Mrs Rochester, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction
In 'The Ghost of Mrs Rochester,' Sussex 'links past and present, in this case an illustration of Mrs Rochester in an edition of Jane Eyre, to provide a most effective ghost story' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.54).

 (p. 149-168)
Merlusine, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy science fiction (p. 169-199)
Frozen Charlottes, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy (p. 200-212)
Runaways, Lucy Sussex , single work short story fantasy (p. 213-233)
Absolute Uncertainty, Lucy Sussex , single work short story science fiction (p. 234-262)
Afterword, Lucy Sussex , single work prose (p. 263-265)
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