Along with Stephen Pagel, she puts together the Bending the Landscape anthologies - BTL:Fantasy (White Wolf, March 97) won the 1997 Lambda Literary Award for Anthology Editor, and the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. Griffith's award winning extends to editorial work as well. it's no more a book about being lesbian than Neuromancer is a book about coming to terms with ones heterosexuality.' My protagonist is a lesbian, and she has a lesbian love affair. In an interview about the novel Ammonite for the radio program Reality Break, she said, 'I'm the author, I'm a lesbian. The denizens of her worlds have problems, they battle with insecurities, yet Lore Van Oester of Slow River is no less capable than the almost superhuman Aud Torvingen.Īnd like Ammonite' s Marghe Taishan, Griffith and her main characters have another commonality, but one she insists should not categorize the work. She is not enamored of labels, either of her work, or herself, and while her move from science fiction to mystery novel was dictated solely by the material, her characters walk along similar paths. Her protagonist, Aud Torvingen, is a character fully formed, and could be a product of the science-fiction genre as much as any other - a physically perfect security consultant, beautiful martial-arts expert and cobalt-hard sensualist whom the New York Daily News called the love child of Smilla and Nikita. The Blue Place is a taut thriller that lives up to the suspenseful promises of her previous work.

Griffith's latest breaks into new territory. She chose instead to define who she really was. During that time she realized that as a stranger in a foreign land, she could reinvent herself without expectations. Her Yaguara won the 1996 Nebula for Best Novella.Ī native of Leeds, England, Nicola Griffith first came to the United States in 1988 for the Clarion Workshop in Science Fiction and Fantasy.

and Lambda Literary Awards, and the ecologically-oriented Slow River (Del Rey, 95) was winner of the 1997 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1996 Lambda Award. Her first novel, the paperback original Ammonite (Del Rey, 93), won the James Tiptree Jr. Convinced of my own worth.' Her work shows proof of that conviction. When asked what kind of writer she is, Nicola Griffith responds frankly, 'Determined. If what happened to her had happened to me at that age, maybe that's how I would have turned out.

The main character, Aud Torvingen, is me and not me. I think characters in fiction are a bit like characters in dreams: all aspects of oneself.

Slow river by nicola griffith