"The Lipton Village Society"

Year for Search
1985
Secondary Title
Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction
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Annotation

This story is tangential to Sussex's utopianism in that it posits a group of young people on the margins of society in the process of willing a utopia into existence, one that they have created collectively in their imaginations. Only brief indications of what the utopia will be like.

Pagination
14-28
Published Date

1985

Publisher
Hale & Iremonger
Place Published
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Keywords
Full Text

1985 Sussex, Lucy [Jane] (b. 1957). “The Lipton Village Society.” Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Damien [Francis] Broderick (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1985), 14-28. Rpt. in her My Lady Tongue and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1990/Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1990), 213-36; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 135-50. A, M, NZ

This story is tangential to Sussex’s utopianism in that it posits a group of young people on the margins of society in the process of willing a utopia into existence, one that they have created collectively in their imaginations. Only brief indications of what the utopia will be like. The female author was born in Aotearoa/New Zealand and moved to Australia at age 14.

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Rpt. in her My Lady Tongue and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1990/Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1990), 213-36; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 135-50.

Author Note

The female author (b. 1957) was born in Aotearoa/New Zealand and moved to Australia at age 14.

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