![]() Yet despite lavishings of praise, Storm Constantine’s fiction has not always been received uncritically. Her novels – from ‘This Monstrous Regiment’ and ‘Hermetech’, to ‘Sign For The Sacred’ and ‘Stalking Tender Prey’, can high-jack the ‘toxic feminism’ of ‘Thelma And Louise’, then alternate personas to teasingly encourage a kind of androgyny – ‘if women wanted equality of the sexes, they’d encourage the female side of men, not try to subdue their own’ (‘This Monstrous Regiment’). ![]() And here, now, in that home, I swear she’s smiling, but I can’t be sure because there’s a blinding halo of sunlight blasting into my eyes through the window behind her. ‘Storm Constantine shares her birthday with Aleister Crowley, and her home with two cats, and a hidden variable.’ reveals her contributors notes to the ‘New Worlds no.1’ relaunch. But she’s never less than readable, encouraging a playful confrontation that gives her Science Fiction its uniqueness. ![]() A fusion of ‘Tank Girl’ and Morticia Adams, with more than a dose of ‘2000AD’s ‘Durham Red’ thrown in. From the hype you expect some kind of cross between Kruella DeVille and Siouxsie Sioux. At its most confrontational it can ram-raid the psyche. Her fiction is concerned with gender, fantasy, and sexual politics. ![]() Storm Constantine writes at Warp Factor Ten. ![]()
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