"Runaways"

Title"Runaways"
Year for Search2003
AuthorsSussex, Lucy [Jane](b. 1957)
Secondary AuthorsSparks, Cat[riona](b. 1965)
Secondary TitleAgog! Terrific Tales: New Australian Speculative Fiction
Pagination33-48
Date Published2003
PublisherAgog! Press
Place PublishedWollongong, NSW, Australia
KeywordsAotearoa New Zealand author, Australian author, Female author
Annotation

Anthropological science fiction describing a multi-generational extended family (both related and not related) that originated as runaways and now exists in the interstices of a collapsed, dystopian world. The runaway society has eutopian elements to it.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 213-33; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 415-33.

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

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

Full Text

2003 Sussex, Lucy [Jane] (b. 1957). “Runaways.” Agog! Terrific Tales: New Australian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Cat[riona] Sparks (Wollongong, NSW, Australia: Agog! Press, 2003), 33-48. Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia. Stories (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 213-33; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 415-33. PSt

Anthropological science fiction describing a multi-generational extended family (both related and not related) that originated as runaways and now exists in the interstices of a collapsed, dystopian world. The runaway society has eutopian elements to it. The female author was born in Aotearoa/New Zealand and moved to Australia at age 14.