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YAGUARA
Nicola Griffith




The 1996 Nebula Award for Best Novel was given to
Nicola GriffithтАЩs Slow River. Griffith was born in Leeds,
Yorkshire, England, and has been a laborer, an
insurance clerk (for forty-five days), a waitress
(forty-five minutes), and a lead singer and songwriter
for the womenтАЩs band Janes Plane. She has also taught
self-defense. Her first novel, Ammonite, won the
Georgia Council for the Arts Individual ArtistтАЩs Award,
the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award, and the Lambda
Literary Award. To quote from GriffithтАЩs entry in the St.
James Guide to Science Fiction Writers: тАЬThough a
relative newcomer, GriffithтАЩs mastery of language is
exceptional, her settings imaginative and well-drawn,
her characters compelling, and her plots fast and finely
tuned. Griffith is swiftly earning her place among the
vanguard of SF literature.тАЭ She has also won the
National Network of Women Writers Award in England
and an artistтАЩs project grant from the Atlanta Bureau of
Cultural Affairs. She is the coeditor, with Stephen Pagel,
of the Bending the Landscape series. Her latest novel,
The Blue Place (due from Avon in July 1998) is a noir
thriller.
Rather than publish an excerpt from Nicola GriffithтАЩs
Slow River, I have chosen to include her 1995 Nebula
Award finalist, the disquieting and evocative novella
тАЬYaguara.тАЭ About this story, the author writes:
тАЬEllen Datlow was soliciting stories for an anthology of
erotic horror. I came up with тАШYaguara.тАЩ It was
inevitable, reallyтАж
тАЬFirst of all, I was determined that I would not write
one of those fuck and die stories so beloved by the
writers of bad horror films. You know the onesтАФwhere
the teenagers are humping in the car/bed/classroom
when the Serial Killer gets them. Moral: Sex will kill you,
especially if youтАЩre female. YouтАЩre only allowed a
boyfriend after youтАЩve dispatched the Monster (and
even then it must be True Love, implying eventual
marriage, or youтАЩll end up starring in the next film
about Bad Girls Get Theirs. If youтАЩre the kind of girl who
would rather have a girlfriend, then youтАЩre dead meat
even before the opening credits).
тАЬSecond, much of my work is about the interaction of
people and their places. People, fictional and not, are
largely the products of their particular time and culture.