#lisa tuttle

[paperbacks4today]

PAPERBACKS FOR TODAY # 19 : on through the nether we must go

I’m gonna throw a wild guess and say that Lost Futures cover might be a Marshall Arisman piece, or at the very least Arisman-lite? He was involved with the Dell Abyss line, though seemingly (as far as I can tell) with covering Kathe Koja’s novels.

Those in question…

Lost Futures by Lisa Tuttle, Dell Abyss 1992, art by [uncredited]

Death’s Master by Tanith Lee, DAW 1979, art by David Schleinkofer

Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky, Bantam 1979, art by Lou Feck (uncredited)

The Damnation Game by Clive Barker, Charter 1988, art by Marshall Arisman (uncredited)

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil!

I am a Masters Research Fellow for the University of Texas at El Paso, and I am currently helping with the Orlando database. This database is meant to be a comprehensive digital humanities project which documents female authors from the British isles or associated with the British isles. My focus is the era of 1968-present. I was wondering if you have any author suggestions we could look into from that time period, especially women of color!

Thanks in advance.

Noelle <3

I'd put in a vote for Josephine Saxton, who is, I'd say, an overlooked and unfairly forgotten writer who is a woman of colour.

And actually, all of these women are important writers -- L to R Josephine Saxton, Gwyneth Jones and Lisa Tuttle (originally from Texas but UK from the late 70s). Photo circa 1985 at a Forbidden Planet signing.

And thinking of other people you might not run into on regular lists, let me point you at Jane Gaskell and Mary Gentle.

[vamqira]

My Death, Lisa Tuttle

[feignedremote]

What happened then I can't describe, can barely remember. I think I saw something that I shouldn't have seen. But maybe it was nothing to do with sight, was purely a brain event. I flail around for an explanation, or at least a metaphor. It was like a lightning bolt, fairy-stroke, the touch of the Goddess, death itself, birth.

Lisa Tuttle, My Death

[taxidermied-hearts]

I just finished A Darker Shade, which is a collection of body horror short stories by women writers (edited by Joyce Carol Oates), and I've got to say.... wow. Some of them were grotesque, unsettling, and down right sickening, but all of them were thought provoking. It delves into the parts of the female experience that can't be sexualised/glamorised. I could write an essay on each individual story. It's definitely the sort of text that should be read for book clubs I think. It's not for the faint of heart, but I would definitely recommend this book.

[harsta]

Lisa Tuttle A Nest of Nightmares “The Memory of Wood”

[saintmaudes]

Like her spiritual godmother Shirley Jackson, she works mainly in a form of grounded psychological horror that Tuttle describes as “a kind of realism where something other breaks through.” But Tuttle’s heroines have forsaken Jackson’s domestic spaces to navigate the double and triple binds of post-second-wave womanhood, ping-ponging between satisfaction and regret, self-sufficiency and loneliness. As in Henry James’s ghost stories, hauntings, possessions, time loops, and doppelgängers follow with a perverse logic from these contradictions; monsters and ancient curses are not necessary to explain the eruption of the supernatural into our world. Unspeakable desire is enough.

—Amy Gentry, in the foreword to My Death by Lisa Tuttle

[book0ftheday]

Analog Magazine January 1980. Cover art by Paul Lehr with additional art by Bob Shore and Ron Miller.