thesis also focused on early women crime writers, the mothers of the genre. Contribution to science fiction and fantasy culture Sussex has participated in numerous conventions and conferences, either as guest or panelist. She has for many years maintained an active interest in encouraging emerging writers in the speculative fiction field, conducting a number of workshops, including at Aussiecon III, the 1999 World SF Convention in Melbourne. She was a teacher at Clarion West, in Seattle in 2001 and at Clarion South in 2004. She has regularly conducted workshops in her home city of Melbourne, of varying lengths and themes, most recently facilitating a Science Fiction Novel writing challenge in 2008-09. In 2003 Sussex was awarded the Chandler Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Australian Science Fiction", which recognised the scope of her achievements in the Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy fields as practitioner, academic and teacher. She was awarded the Peter McNamara award in 2010. Awards In 1989, she won her first Ditmar Award for short story "My Lady Tongue" about a lesbian feminist community. She won three further Ditmars, for her novel The Scarlet Rider (1997), novella "La Sentinelle" (2004), and short story "Absolute Uncertainty". "Merlusine" won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story in 1998, and "La Sentinelle" won an Aurealis Award in 2003. In 2008 her short story "Mist and Murder" won a Sir Julius Vogel Award. Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab won the History Publication Award in the Victorian Community History Awards in 2015. It was shortlisted for the 2017 Best Non Fiction prize in the Ngaio Marsh Awards. She was a judge for the international James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1995, and has subsequently judged the Age, Victorian Premier's and ASAL gold medal awards. Bibliography Novels Deersnake (Hodder and Stoughton, 1994) The Scarlet Rider (Forge, 1996) The Penguin Friend (Omnibus Books, 1997) Black Ice, (Hodder Headline Australia, 1997) The Revognase (Lothian, 2003) Short fiction Collections My Lady Tongue and Other Tales, (Heinemann, 1990) A Tour Guide in Utopia, (MirrorDanse, 2005) Absolute Uncertainty, (Aqueduct Press, 2006) Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex, (Ticonderoga Publications, 2011) Thief of Lives (Twelfth Planet, 2011) Stories "The Parish and Mrs Brown" (1983) in DreamWorks: Strange New Stories (ed. David King) "The Lipton Village Society" (1985) in Strange Attractors (ed. Damien Broderick) "Montage" (1985) in Urban Fantasies (ed. David King, Russell Blackford)