Lisa Tuttle Again
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darkling_talesI remember dfordoom posting about Lisa Tuttle, so now I've got more time here are some links and stuff about the author if anyone is interested.
Here is the author's own page. It is somewhat amateurish for a published author but is quite interesting.
Have a peep in the Electriclight archive for a Melanie Fazi interview with Tuttle.
My favourite story so far by Tuttle is My Pathology. I remember this as being a very good tale. I read it in one of the Dark Terrors anthologies, and it definitely stood out from the rest of the collection. It is about an aspiring alchemist who persuades women to assist with the discovery of the Philosopher's Stone in a very odd way... Though the theme seems somewhat lurid the story is anything but, and the parts of the story where the heroine catches glimpses of what is going on in the “philosophers” house are written with great restraint and very eerie. There are liberal doses of "body horror" but there is never any gratuitous gore. I think this would go down well with fans of David Cronenberg.
Meeting The Muse (available online here, though with several typos and an unappetizing backdrop) tells the story of a Texan student who falls in love with the photograph of an English poet in a newspaper clipping and tracks him down to his house in London. This story reminded me somewhat of My Pathology in that it deals with the dynamics between a manipulative, driven man and the women he draws around him. As in My Pathology the used women either fail altogether to realize what they have in common and so band together, or only achieve this when it is too late. In both stories Tuttle weaves a magical, supernatural atmosphere while making some clever points about human politics in the “real” world.
A Cold Dish (online here) contains the wise observation that “pregnancy is an altered state”. The dark sci-fi story, set in a future where pregnancy is enforced on women as federal punishment for "vice", starts out with the narrator making a very clear statement on one of the evils of patriarchy: the tendency of the patriarch to treat his wife(s) and children as owned goods. Tuttle has plenty to say on gender inequality, but her work always retains a glimmer of mystery and never falls into mere pamphleteering. In fact it makes a pleasant change to see women stand up for themselves in the still male-dominated areas of horror and sci-fi genre fiction!
dfordoom posting about Lisa Tuttle, so now I've got more time here are some links and stuff about the author if anyone is interested.Here is the author's own page. It is somewhat amateurish for a published author but is quite interesting.
Have a peep in the Electriclight archive for a Melanie Fazi interview with Tuttle.
My favourite story so far by Tuttle is My Pathology. I remember this as being a very good tale. I read it in one of the Dark Terrors anthologies, and it definitely stood out from the rest of the collection. It is about an aspiring alchemist who persuades women to assist with the discovery of the Philosopher's Stone in a very odd way... Though the theme seems somewhat lurid the story is anything but, and the parts of the story where the heroine catches glimpses of what is going on in the “philosophers” house are written with great restraint and very eerie. There are liberal doses of "body horror" but there is never any gratuitous gore. I think this would go down well with fans of David Cronenberg.
Meeting The Muse (available online here, though with several typos and an unappetizing backdrop) tells the story of a Texan student who falls in love with the photograph of an English poet in a newspaper clipping and tracks him down to his house in London. This story reminded me somewhat of My Pathology in that it deals with the dynamics between a manipulative, driven man and the women he draws around him. As in My Pathology the used women either fail altogether to realize what they have in common and so band together, or only achieve this when it is too late. In both stories Tuttle weaves a magical, supernatural atmosphere while making some clever points about human politics in the “real” world.
A Cold Dish (online here) contains the wise observation that “pregnancy is an altered state”. The dark sci-fi story, set in a future where pregnancy is enforced on women as federal punishment for "vice", starts out with the narrator making a very clear statement on one of the evils of patriarchy: the tendency of the patriarch to treat his wife(s) and children as owned goods. Tuttle has plenty to say on gender inequality, but her work always retains a glimmer of mystery and never falls into mere pamphleteering. In fact it makes a pleasant change to see women stand up for themselves in the still male-dominated areas of horror and sci-fi genre fiction!
