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Books
by Nicola Griffith
Winner, Lambda Literary Award |
And Now We Are Going to Have a Party
...a life story wittily and bracingly told: brave, forthright, illuminating, passionate, rueful, and celebratory. If you melded Alison Bechdel's Fun Home with Aldiss's The Twinkling of an Eye and Delany's The Motion of Light in Water, you might come up with a similar tale of a wild girl with literary sensibilities.
--Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's
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Winner,
Reader's Choice award |
Always
Yowza! Griffith's six-foot-tall, cropped-haired heroine Aud Torvingen is back... Fist-slamming physicality is beautifully balanced with raised emotional stakes as Griffith dares to take her lethally forceful heroine to a new level.
--Booklist, *Starred Review*
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finalist, Lambda Literary Award |
With Her Body
...haunting, fiercely women-oriented tales of lesbians making their way in one world or another.
--books to watch out for
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Winner, Insight Out Best Novel |
Stay
Stay is simply gorgeous--a powerful character
study in the rough domain of mystery and adventure. It
is also a courageous and frank portrait of grief, deeply
complex and completely true. There was not one misstep,
not one moment when I was not being pulled along hoping
for some lifesaving miracle. And when it happens, it feels
real - stubborn human nature doing what it does. Stay
made me glad to read it.
--Dorothy Allison |
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Winner, Lambda Award |
The
Blue Place
It's hard to overpraise the taut plotting and broad intelligence
of this thriller. Beyond some smart narrative moves, what
makes The Blue Place stand out is its precision. You constantly
feel like you're getting the inside dope on new worlds,
including those of martial arts, woodworking, Norwegian
foods and dress styles, ice hiking and burglar alarms.
Griffith has already won herself Lambda and Nebula awards...and
she seems destined to add to her laurels.
--Washington Post Book World |
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Winner, Nebula, Spectrum, Lambda Awards |
Slow
River
Slow River now demonstrates that Griffith is the major
new voice in the field. ..In her depiction of a woman
struggling for control of her life, Griffith has fashioned
a paean to the human spirit, engaging both the mind and
heart. It's fashionable to say such books transcend the
genre, as if quality had no place in science fiction.
Rather, I think Slow River elevates the genre,
joining a select few books that shine as beacons of excellence.
--The Seattle Times |
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Winner, Tiptree, Lambda Awards
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Ammonite
Ammonite is a self-assured, unselfconscious, convincing
depiction of a world without men...doing what only SF
can do, and doing it with skill and brio.... It answers
the question 'When you eliminate one gender, what's left?'
('A whole world,' is the answer.) But a lot of books,
like Moby Dick, eliminate one gender, and yet nobody thinks
anything about it. I believe Kate Clinton has the answer:
'When women go off together it's called separatism; when
men go off together it's called Congress.'
--Ursula K. Le Guin |
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