"A Tour Guide in Utopia"

Title"A Tour Guide in Utopia"
Year for Search1995
AuthorsSussex, Lucy [Jane](b. 1957)
Secondary AuthorsSussex, Lucy [Jane](b. 1957), and Buckrich, Judith Raphael
Secondary TitleShe's Fantastical
Pagination202-10
Date Published1995
PublisherSybylla
Place PublishedMelbourne, VIC, Australia
KeywordsAotearoa New Zealand author, Australian author, Female author
Annotation

Humor. A woman writing her thesis on Australian women writers of utopias meets one of them traveling into the future and acts as her guide. The utopia published in the past improved substantially on the future the writer visited.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 108-15; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 121-28.

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

1995 Sussex, Lucy [Jane] (b. 1957). “A Tour Guide in Utopia.” She’s Fantastical. Ed. Lucy [Jane] Sussex and Judith Raphael Buckrich (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sybylla, 1995), 202-10. Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia. Stories (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 108-15; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2011), 121-28. M, PSt

Humor. A woman writing her thesis on Australian women writers of utopias meets one of them traveling into the future and acts as her guide. The utopia published in the past improved substantially on the future the writer visited. The female author was born in Aotearoa/New Zealand and moved to Australia at age 14.