Les Auteures Australiennes et la Science-Fiction

[Priscilla]

Dans un article paru sur The best audience award, un site qui parle de tout ou presque, l'auteure australienne de fantasy Tansy Rayner Roberts s'interroge sur la méconnaissance dont sont victimes les femmes auteures de science-fiction en Australie. Car il y en a, et Tansy Rayner Roberts en cite quelques unes qui ont influencé son travail ou séduit son esprit. Elle leur rend hommage :

Among my favourite and best beloved works, the first one that comes to mind is the classic feminist-lesbian-shakespearian-dystopian short story by Lucy Sussex, “My Lady Tongue.” There’s also Less Than Human, an industrial-robots-in-near-future-Japan novel by Maxine McArthur, which I love for its characterisation and sense of place as well as a kick-ass crime plot.

Speaking of kick-ass, well, you can’t talk about Australian science fiction without mentioning Marianne de Pierres, who has kept the space opera flag flying in recent years, even as the rest of Australia’s meagre handful of SF writers leap aboard the fantasy ship instead.
Nylon Angel is an Australian classic (dytopia again, we do that so well), and her Sentients of Orion series comes well recommended. Even her recent YA debut, Burn Bright, which has all the hallmarks of a vampire paranormal, is science fictional in the extreme.

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