Dawes, Sue
Entry updated 31 March 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author whose first novel, The Mune (2025), which is set an Alternate-History 1860s world and told in the style of an early Scientific Romance, follows the hegira of a group of variously "surplus" (ie "fallen") women (see Feminism; Women in SF) who have been evicted from England on the kind of ship that may have been used to transport convicts to Australia. They are shipwrecked on a unknown Island, where they found the eponymous Utopia. At the heart of the island is a portal – possibly, given the seeming Multiverse of pathways to which it gives access, a Time Gate – which opens the text and its several narrators to a "No Place"; here various instantiations of the idea of utopia (see Thought Experiment), with an instructional life-affirming take on Gender issues, are multiply brought to life. [JC]
Sue Dawes
born UK
works
- The Mune (London: Goldsmiths Press, University of London: 2025) [in the publisher's Gold SF series: pb/]
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