Interviews With The Fantastic
InterGalactic Interview With Tanith Lee
by Darrell Schweitzer
It's very hard to sum up the career of Tanith Lee so far. There's just so much of it.
She first came to the attention of most readers with The Birthgrave (1975) which
clearly announced the arrival of a major talent. She is perhaps best known for her
Flat Earth novels, and tends to focus on exotic, fantastic adventure in exotic
settings, but she has written science fiction, straight horror (such as Dark Dance
and its sequels), historical novels, detective fiction, screenplays (including a couple
episodes of Blake's 7) and quite a bit more. Two special issues of Weird Tales have
been devoted to her, which is only appropriate since it seemed to me when I was
co-editor of that magazine that her work expressed the Weird Tales aesthetic more
perfectly than that of any other living writer. Among her awards are two World
Fantasy Awards for best short fiction (1983, 1984) plus eight more nominations;
and a British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1980 for Death's Master plus five
more nominations. She has published over eighty books.
