Bibliothèque des Refusés

Susan Maxwell

This is the website of Susan Maxwell, who writes Literary / Slipstream / Irreal / SFF works for adult and younger readers. Her first published novel Good Red Herring (Little Island) was included in the Irish Times Best books of 2014 for children and young adults. Her short story 'Necrologue' (reprinted in Fluctuation in Disorder) was the title story of the 2004 Lambda Award-winning anthology edited by H. Sandler. [read more]

"The essence of the irreal is to create a reality that convinces the writer (and, with luck, the reader) of a world in which unexplained absurdities will happen, and will not be resolved."

(Introduction, Fluctuation in Disorder)

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