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A former journalist who moved into full-time fiction writing, Lisa Tuttle grew up in Texas, sold her first stories in the early 70s, and received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1974. She's the author of several novels, including Windhaven, which she wrote in collaboration with George R.R. Martin. In 1981 she moved to London and currently lives in western Scotland with her ...
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My Pathology

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Overview

About the Author

A former journalist who moved into full-time fiction writing, Lisa Tuttle grew up in Texas, sold her first stories in the early 70s, and received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1974. She's the author of several novels, including Windhaven, which she wrote in collaboration with George R.R. Martin. In 1981 she moved to London and currently lives in western Scotland with her family.

The sixteen stories in MY PATHOLOGY, which range from horror, to fantasy, to science fiction, concern worlds where paranoid fantasies come true and real monsters are born out of common neurotic fixations. This is a powerful and challenging collection by a veteran of feminist horror and fantasy.

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Editorial Reviews

Bentley Little
"['My Pathology'] concerns a woman who becomes romantically involved with a modern-day alchemist, and it manages to seem both classic and cutting edge, like a missing link between Arthur Machen and Clive Barker's BOOKS OF BLOOD. Unpredictable, filled with powerful imagery and possessing a strong literary subtext, 'My Pathology' is one of the best short stories I have read in quite some time." (Bentley Little, from Hellnotes)
Chris Morgan
Tuttle is at her best as a short story writer. The power and sheer quality of her work are unmistakable on every page. (Chris Morgan, of Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual)
David V. Barrett
Her stories are emotionally uncomfortable . . . they're powerful, they're brilliant, they hurt -- and they're very special. The not only make you think, they make you feel. (David V. Barrett, author of City Limits)
Independent on Sunday (London)
She brings to the literature a subtlety and power which, sometimes shading into horror, is a quite distinctive voice demanding to be heard
The Good Book Guide
Lisa Tuttle's short stories have a way of lingering long after you've read them
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940000079898
  • Publisher: Electricstory.com
  • Publication date: 9/1/2001
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 1,153,194
  • File size: 335 KB

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From "The Nest"

When the sky turned pale and gray morning lit the room I dressed myself in jeans, pullover, and boots. As an afterthought I pulled on a pair of heavy gloves and hefted a flashlight in my hand like a weapon. I knew that if I thought about what I was going to do I would be too frightened to go on. I had to do it, not for myself, but for Sylvia.

She didn't stir when I entered her room. I stood for a moment, looking at her sleeping shape humped beneath blankets, remembering her anger. All our lives I had helped her, and she had rarely been grateful. But I didn't need her gratitude. I wanted her safety.

There was no way to enter the attic other than headfirst, and with difficulty. I set the chair below the door and hesitated, sweat trickling down my back at the prospect of pulling myself up, defenseless, into the unknown. Finally I went ahead and did it, climbing onto the chair, lifting aside the lightweight board that served as a door, and then, wriggling and straining, hauling myself up through the opening as quickly as I could.

I found myself in a low, dim, dusty space piled with litter. Covering the floorboards thickly were leaves, twigs, fragments of board and brick, scraps of paper, dust, soil, and dead insects. Just the sort of place I hated most. If Sylvia had cleaned up, I could see no sign of her work. I switched on the flashlight and pointed it around, wishing the light had a purifying as well as illuminating power. I played it on a huge heap of rubbish which must have piled up and remained untouched for ages. Bits and pieces of it were recognizable within the mess as fragments of newspaper, food wrappings, and cloth. There was so much of it that I wondered dazedly if the previous owners of the house could have been so far gone as to use their own attic as a rubbish dump.

A rubbish dump. That's what I thought, shining the light at it. Bits and pieces blown in through the hole in the roof or deliberately left by tenants. Bits of newspaper, cloth, wood, and cardboard plastered together with mud and hay, twigs and leaves, and bits of string to form a coherent whole.

Rather like a nest.
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Table of Contents

My Pathology
Bug House
The Nest
A Friend in Need
The Other Mother
Treading the Maze
Flying to Byzantium
Memories of the Body
Skin Deep
Dead Television
Heart's Desire
Lizard Lust Bits and Pieces Honey, I'm Home! In Translation Replacements
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