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'In her story "Memory of Breathing," Lyn Battersby posits a future where criminals are executed then reanimated in order to work as slaves. It’s an intriguing blend of modern sci-fi and a more classical conception of zombies, but the story plays out — predictably but poignantly — as a more intimate human drama, in which a hardened death camp commander gradually develops fatherly fondness for a reanimated child-corpse' (Tim Kroenert, Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus).
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Works about this Work
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Maternal Instincts: An Interview with Lyn Battersby
2009
single work
interview
— Appears in: Studies in Australian Weird Fiction , no. 3 2009; (p. 79-84)
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Maternal Instincts: An Interview with Lyn Battersby
2009
single work
interview
— Appears in: Studies in Australian Weird Fiction , no. 3 2009; (p. 79-84)
Awards
- 2006 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Novella or Novelette
- 2005 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Short Story
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