Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee was born on 19 September 1947 in London, to professional dancers Bernard and Hylda Lee.{{cite book|author=Darrell Schweitzer|title =Speaking of Horror: Interviews with Writers of the Supernatural|publisher =Wildside Press LLC|year =1994|pages=59–60|isbn =978-1-880448-81-6|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=cbKHtMCHcvkC&pg=PA59}}{{cite web|url=http://www.daughterofthenight.com/tlbio.html|title=Author Biography: Tanith Lee|author1=Jim Pattison |author2=Paul A. Soanes |author3=Allison Rich |name-list-style=amp |date=17 April 2011|publisher=Daughter of the Night†: An Annotated Tanith Lee Bibliography|access-date=25 July 2011}}{{cite journal |author=Moran, Maureen F |title=Tanith Lee |journal=British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Since 1960 in Dictionary of Literary Biography|volume=261 |year=2002}} Despite a persistent rumour, she was not the daughter of Bernard Lee (the actor who played "M" in the James Bond series films between 1962 and 1979). According to Lee, although her childhood was happy, she was the "traditional kid that got bullied," and had to move around frequently due to her parents' work.{{cite web|url=http://www.starshipsofa.com/2011/02/08/starshipsofa-no-175-jeff-carlson/|title=StarShipSofa Interrogation: Tanith Lee in StarShipSofa No.175|author=Jeff Carlson|date=2 August 2011|publisher=StarShipSofa|access-date=1 October 2012}} - An audio interview with Tanith Lee Although her family was poor, they maintained a large paperback collection, and Lee read weird fiction, including "Silken Swift" by Theodore Sturgeon and "Gabriel Ernest" by Saki, and discussed such literature as Hamlet and Dracula with her parents.{{cite web | url= http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/09/tanith-lee-on-the-weird/ | title= Tanith Lee on the Weird | author= Luis Rodrigues | year= 2011 | publisher= Weird Fiction Review | access-date= 15 October 2012}} Lee attended many different schools in childhood. She was at first "incapable" of reading due to a mild form of dyslexia, which was diagnosed later in life, but when she was aged 8, her father taught her to read in a few months,{{Cite web |last=jeffvandermeer |date=2012-09-03 |title=Tanith Lee on The Weird |url=https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/09/tanith-lee-on-the-weird/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=Weird Fiction Review |language=en-US}} and she began to write at the age of 9.

Because Lee's parents had to move for jobs, Lee attended numerous primary schools, then the Prendergast Grammar School for Girls. After secondary school, Lee attended Croydon Art College for a year. Realising that was not what she wanted to do, she dropped out of her course and held a number of jobs, including file clerk, waitress, shop assistant, and assistant librarian.{{cite web|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/interviews/09/13/tanith-lee-queer-authors/|title=Tanith Lee: Channeling Queer Authors|author=Craig Gidney|date=13 September 2010|access-date=16 October 2012}}

She began publishing with The Betrothed (1968), a short story privately printed by a friend, but started serious writing with several children's fantasies. Of these, The Dragon Hoard (1971), her first novel, is a comic fantasy, in which an enchantress compels the quest-ridden protagonist to shapeshift into a raven at unpredictable moments. Princess Hynchatti & Some Other Surprises (collection of linked stories in 1972) puts its cast through various travails. In Companions on the Road (1975) the companions are the villains, a trio of hellish revenants who kill through their control of Dreams as they search for the holders of a magic chalice. The Winter Players (1976) – assembled with the previous book as Companions on the Road and The Winter Players: Two Novellas (1977) – dramatises the interaction between a young woman and the accursed wanderer whom she ultimately redeems. Even in these early works, several characteristic motifs dominate: the Rite of Passage whereby a young protagonist comes to terms – often via Metamorphosis – with his or her extraordinary nature, and strives for Balance in a riven world; vivid, but indeterminate, landscapes serving as almost interchangeable backdrops for psychic dramas; and a fine indifference to any moralistic settling of scores, her tales tending to close with Good and Evil characters settling into uneasy equipoise.{{Cite web|url=http://sf-encyclopedia.uk/fe.php?nm=lee_tanith|title=Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) – Lee, Tanith|website=sf-encyclopedia.uk|language=en|access-date=6 April 2019}}

Her first professional sale came from "Eustace," a ninety-word vignette at the age of 21 in 1968. She continued to work in various jobs for almost another decade, due to rejection of her books. Her first novel (for children) was The Dragon Hoard, published in 1971 by Macmillan. Her career took off with the acceptance in 1975 by DAW Books USA of her adult fantasy epic The Birthgrave – a mass-market paperback. Many British publishers rejected The Birthgrave so she approached DAW Books. Lee subsequently maintained a prolific output in popular genre writing.{{cite book|author1=George R. R. Martin |author2=Gardner Dozois |name-list-style=amp |title =Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love|publisher =Simon and Schuster|year =2010|page=361|isbn =978-1-4391-5014-6|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=T71Fraq4P5QC&pg=PA361}}{{cite web|url=http://www.whc2010.org/goh-tanithlee01.html|title=Tanith Lee – Author Guest of Honour|year=2010|publisher=World Horror Convention 2010|access-date=25 July 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630072523/http://www.whc2010.org/goh-tanithlee01.html|archive-date=30 June 2011}} The Birthgrave allowed Lee to be a full-time writer and stop doing "stupid and soul-killing jobs."{{cite web|url=http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Horror/TanithLee.html|title=A History of Horror: On the Lee Side|author1=David Carroll |author2=Kyla Ward |year=1994|access-date=16 October 2012}}

During the nineties her "career went through the doldrums" because of trends in publishing.{{cite news |last1=Kaveney |first1=Roz |title=Tanith Lee obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/01/tanith-lee |access-date=9 October 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=1 June 2015}} Major publishing companies were less accepting of Lee's later works.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/aug/27/fantasy-death-master-tanith-lee|title=World of Fantasy: Death's Master by Tanith Lee|author=Alison Flood|date=27 August 2010|work=The Guardian |access-date=16 October 2012}}.Contains different text than other Alison Flood article. The companies which Lee worked with for years refused to look at her proposals.{{cite web|url=http://www.rofmag.com/author-interviews/interview-with-tanith-lee/|title=Interview: Tanith Lee|author=Darrell Schweitzer|year=2011|publisher=Realms of Fantasy|access-date=16 October 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330021324/http://www.rofmag.com/author-interviews/interview-with-tanith-lee/|archive-date=30 March 2012}} Smaller companies were publishing just a few of Lee's works. The refusals did not stop her from writing and she had numerous unpublished novels and short stories. Letters from fans asked if she were dead because no new work had been published. Lee tried changing her genre, but to no success. However, Internet sales succeeded in reviving her writing.

Lee had "quietly phenomenal sales" at certain periods throughout her career. When she tried changing genres, some of her works were liked by critics and published by small publishers, but it made no difference. The royalties were good before the publishers went bankrupt.

In 1987, Lee met artist and writer John Kaiine. In 1992, the couple married. They lived in the south of England.

Lee died at her home in East Sussex of breast cancer on 24 May 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/05/tanith-lee-1947-2015/|title=Locus Obituary|date=26 May 2015}}{{Cite news |title=Tanith Lee, Fantasy and Horror Novelist, Dies at 67 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/books/tanith-lee-fantasy-and-horror-novelist-dies-at-67.html?ref=obituaries |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=1 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602204640/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/books/tanith-lee-fantasy-and-horror-novelist-dies-at-67.html?ref=obituaries |archive-date=2 June 2015 |access-date=24 August 2023 |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |author-link=Sam Roberts (newspaper journalist)}}

Lee often uses the transitional character of the bildungsroman, or coming-of-age stories. For instance, the protagonist of Lee's The Birthgrave undertakes a journey to understanding her identity and culture.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XmOSHrtlBK8C&q=tanith+lee&pg=PA10|title=The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene|last=Haut|first=Mavis|date=12 November 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786483686|language=en}}

Lee's two longest werewolf stories, "Wolfland" and Lycanthia, follow Lee's custom of reversing the images of popular culture icons. Lee approximates the werewolves' behaviours according to the social and hunting patterns of wild wolves. In altering this trope, she endows werewolf stories with a new and more positive mythos.{{Cite journal|last=Heldreth|first=Lillian M.|date=1989|title=Tanith Lee's Werewolves Within: Reversals of Gothic Traditions|journal=Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts|volume=2|issue=1 (5)|pages=14–23|issn=0897-0521|jstor=43310205}}

Lee's 1971 debut was the children's book The Dragon Hoard; her first adult book was The Birthgrave in 1975.{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/1998/Issues/04/Lee.html |title=Tanith Lee: Love & Death & Publishers|work=Locus Online |access-date=17 March 2009 |date=April 1998}} Lee's prolific output spans a host of different genres, including adult fantasy, children's fantasy, science fiction, horror, Gothic horror, Gothic romance, and historical fiction. Her series of interconnected tales called The Flat-Earth Cycle, beginning with Night's Master and Death's Master, is similar in scope and breadth to Jack Vance's The Dying Earth.{{cite book|author=Mavis Haut|title =The hidden library of Tanith Lee: themes and subtexts from Dionysos to the immortal gene|publisher =Wildside Press LLC|year =2001|isbn =978-0-7864-1085-9|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=XmOSHrtlBK8C}}

Night's Master contains allegorical tales involving Azhrarn, a demonic prince who kidnaps and raises a beautiful boy and separates him from the sorrow of the real world. Eventually, the boy wants to know more about the earth, and asks to be returned, setting off a series of encounters between Azhrarn and mankind, some horrific and some positive. Later tales are loosely based on Babylonian mythology. In the science fiction Four-BEE series, Lee explores youth culture and identity in a society which grants eternally young teenagers complete freedom. They are even killed and receive new bodies, gender and/or identity over and over again. Lee has also written a historical novel with The Gods are Thirsty, set during the French Revolution.
During the late 1980s she published three collections - Dreams of Dark and Light (1986), Women as Demons (1989) and The Forests of the Night (1989).

A large part of Lee's output was children's fantasy, which has spanned her career from The Dragon Hoard in 1971 to the more recent The Claidi Journals containing Wolf Tower, Wolf Star, Wolf Queen and Wolf Wing in the late 1990s and early 2000s.{{cite book|author=Pam Spencer Holley|title =Quick and Popular Reads for Teens|publisher =ALA Editions|year =2009|page=146|isbn =978-0-8389-3577-4|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=a1s36QUsvLcC&pg=PA146}}

Lee was published by various imprints, particularly depending on whether she is offering adult fiction or children's fantasy. Her earlier children's fantasy novels were published in hardcover by Macmillan UK and subsequently printed as paperbacks in the US often by DAW, with occasional hardcovers by St. Martin's Press. Some of her work was only printed in paperback, mainly in the US by DAW in the 1970s to the early 1980s. She has received some small press treatment, such as the Arkham House edition of short stories Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee in 1986, and in the first "Night Visions" instalment published by Dark Harvest.

Lee's style is frequently remarked upon for its use of rich poetic prose and striking imagery. Critics describe her style as weird, lush, vibrant, exotic, erotic, rich, elegant, perverse, and darkly beautiful.{{cite web | url= http://www.morbidoutlook.com/nonfiction/articles/2005_03_tanithlee.html | title= Delirium's Mistress: The Weird & Beautiful Fiction of Tanith Lee | author= Craig L. Gidney| date= March 2005 | publisher= Morbid Outlook | access-date= 15 October 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/09/weirdfictionreview-coms-101-weird-writers-10-tanith-lee/|title=101 Weird Writers: Tanith Lee.|author=Desirina Boskovich|date=3 September 2011|publisher=Weird Fiction Review|access-date=16 October 2012}} The technique she used is very descriptive and poetic to match the themes she used in her mythical stories.{{cite web|url=http://nerdredefined.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/two-reviews-thor-2011-and-nights-master-by-tanith-lee/|title=Two Reviews: Thor (2011) and Night's Master by Tanith Lee|date=30 September 2012|publisher=Wordpress|access-date=16 October 2012}} She was praised for her ability to balance her weird style with the challenges of writing a faraway world,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/aug/27/fantasy-death-master-tanith-lee|title=World of Fantasy: Death's Master by Tanith Lee.|author=Alison Flood|date=27 August 2010|work=The Guardian|access-date=16 October 2012}} but some critics counter that her style is not always easy on the reader; she sometimes leaves the reader with unanswered questions.

Lee's writing frequently featured nonconformist interpretations of fairy tales, vampire stories, myths, and the fantasy genre; as well as themes of feminism and sexuality.{{cite book|author=Robin Anne Reid|title =Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Overviews|publisher =ABC-CLIO|year =2009|pages=38, 199, 219|isbn =978-1-4391-5014-6|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=jKr0jWY8FLkC}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/StudentProjects/Student_FairyTales/WebProject/Bios/Tanith%20Lee.htm|title=Tanith Lee|author=Angel Fernandez|year=2003|publisher=Modern and Traditional Fairy Tales, San José State University|access-date=25 July 2011}} She also wrote lesbian fiction under the pseudonym Esther Garber.{{cite book|author=Donald Haase|title =The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: G-P|publisher =Greenwood Publishing Group|year =2008|pages=568–569|isbn =978-0-313-33443-6|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=-sj5cJz0_OsC&pg=PA558}} Other than feminism and sexuality, Lee used a wide range of other themes in her stories. From 1975 to 1980, she began writing Gothic science fiction; her first Gothic novel "Sabella or the Bloodstone" features themes of loneliness and fear. Lee's most celebrated story "Elle Est Trois", which examines the relationship between self-destruction and creativity "has themes of psychosis and sexuality, the subjugation of women, and the persuasive power of myth interwoven through it". Myth is again apparent (along with race) in her stories "The Storm Lord", "Anackire", and "The White Serpent". Three unique horror series were produced by Lee in the '90s; the first story, The Book of the Damned, features themes of body thievery and shape-shifting. Themes of homophobia, racism, and sexism are seen in Lee's sequence The Blood Opera, and The Venus Cycle features themes of love, loss, and revenge. Her collection Disturbed By Her Song features themes of eroticism, despair, isolation, and the pressure of an unforgiving and unwelcoming society.{{cite web| url= http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/09/queering-sff-new-booksdisturbed-by-her-song-by-tanith-lee | title= Queering SFF: New Books-Disturbed by Her Song by Tanith Lee| author= Mandelo, Lee| date= 20 September 2010| publisher= Tor.com| access-date= 15 October 2012}} These themes reoccur in her 1976 novel Don't Bite the Sun where the characters are involved in a very erotic lifestyle and the protagonist experiences despair. Eroticism shows up again in her novel "Death's Master" which examines the childhood origins of eroticism and the "later conflicts that arise from it". The sequel to Don't Bite the Sun, Drinking Sapphire Wine, is thematically similar to her other works, in that it features themes of Death and renewal, sexuality, and love. The theme of recognition also appears in Drinking Sapphire Wine, where the characters are forced to recognize others and themselves in a world where physical form is so readily alterable.

Tanith Lee was influenced by multiple genres, including other writers, music, movies, and "small things".{{cite web|url= http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/?p=3360|title= Tanith Lee Interview |author= Administrator |date=17 November 2009|publisher= Innsmouth Free Press|access-date=15 October 2012}} - An interview with Tanith Lee Her Flat Earth Series was inspired by a game she played with her mother; some of her other works are influenced by fairy tales her mother told her. Much of her work comes from "small things" rather than major inspirations.{{cite web|url= http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-nonfiction/author-spotlight-tanith-lee-2/|title= Author Spotlight: Tanith Lee |author= T.J. McIntyre |date=March 2011|publisher= Fantasy Magazine |access-date=15 October 2012}} - An interview with Tanith Lee

Lee was inspired by writers and playwrights, including Graham Greene, Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen, Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Angela Carter, Jane Gaskell, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, William Blake, Anton Chekov, Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Ibsen, August Strindberg, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Bunin, James, Rosemary Sutcliff, Mary Renault, Jean Rhys, John Fowles, John le Carré, Brontë family, E.M. Forster, W. Somerset Maugham, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Ruth Rendell, Lawrence Durrell, Elroy Flecker, and Ted Hughes.{{cite web |url= http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/536440-the-object-of-desire-our-interview-with-tanith.html |title= The Object of Desire – Our Interview with Tanith Lee - Science Fiction Fantasy Chronicles: Forums |author= Teresa Edgerton |date= November 2004 |publisher= SFF Chronicles |access-date= 15 October 2012 |archive-date= 3 December 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121203072926/http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/536440-the-object-of-desire-our-interview-with-tanith.html |url-status= dead }} - Our interview with Tanith Lee Lee considered Virginia Woolf and C.S. Lewis to be influential on her from a young age.

Lee was influenced by painters, movies, television, and music. She cites Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Shostakovich (whose symphonies influenced certain scenes in Anackire), George Frideric Handel, Annie Lennox and Johnny Cash as musical influences. Film influences include Ben-Hur, Caesar and Cleopatra (with Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains), Coppola's Dracula, The Brotherhood of the Wolf (subtitled version), Olivier's Hamlet. The various Quatermass TV series and films inspired Lee, along with the films Forbidden Planet (1956), Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) and Plunkett & Macleane (1999). The TV version of Georg Büchner's play Danton's Death (1978), inspired her to write her French historical novel. The painters that have inspired her include Vincent van Gogh, Cotman, J. M. W. Turner, Gustav Klimt, Rousseau, Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and several pre-Raphaelites.

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Nebula Awards

• 1975: The Birthgrave (nominated, best novel){{Cite web |last=Fictions |first=© 2025 Science |last2=SFWA® |first2=Fantasy Writers Association |last3=Fiction |first3=Nebula Awards® are registered trademarks of Science |last4=America |first4=Fantasy Writers of |last5=SFWA |first5=Inc Opinions expressed on this web site are not necessarily those of |title=Tanith Lee |url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominees/tanith-lee/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=The Nebula Awards® |language=en-US}}
• 1980: Red As Blood (nominated, best short story)

World Fantasy Awards{{cite web|author=World Fantasy Convention|title=Award Winners and Nominees|url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/|access-date=4 February 2011|archive-date=1 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html|url-status=dead}}

• 1979: Night's Master (nominated, best novel){{Cite web |title=Nominees {{!}} World Fantasy Convention |url=https://worldfantasy.org/awards/nominees/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |language=en-US}}
• 1983: The Gorgon (winner, best short story){{Cite news |last=Moreno-Garcia |first=Silvia |date=2025-03-30 |title=The Essential Tanith Lee |url=https://www.nytimes.com/article/tanith-lee-books.html |access-date=2025-04-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1984: Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) (winner, best short story){{Cite web |title=1984: The 10th World Fantasy Convention℠ {{!}} World Fantasy Convention |url=https://worldfantasy.org/1984-the-10th-world-fantasy-convention/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |language=en-US}}
• 1984: Nunc Dimittis (nominated, best novella)
• 1984: Red As Blood, or, Tales From The Sisters Grimmer (nominated, best anthology/collection)
• 1985: Night Visions 1 (nominated, best anthology/collection){{Cite web |title=Nominees {{!}} World Fantasy Convention |url=https://worldfantasy.org/awards/nominees/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |language=en-US}}
• 1987: Dreams of Dark And Light (nominated, best anthology/collection)
• 1988: Night's Sorceries (nominated, best anthology/collection)
• 1999: Scarlet And Gold (nominated, best novella){{Cite web |title=The SF Site: World Fantasy Award Nominees |url=https://www.sfsite.com/09a/wfa88.htm |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=www.sfsite.com}}
• 2006: Uous (nominated, best novella){{Cite web |title=Locus Online News: World Fantasy Awards finalists |url=https://www.locusmag.com/2006/News/08_WfaFinalists.html |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=www.locusmag.com}}
• 2013: Life Achievement Award{{cite web|url=http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/11/2013-world-fantasy-award-winners |title=Announcing the 2013 World Fantasy Award Winners |publisher=Tor.com |date=3 November 2013 |access-date=28 June 2014}}

World Horror Convention

• 2009: Grand Master AwardWikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 2 June 2006. Web. 13 October 2015.

British Fantasy Awards

• 1979: Quest for the White Witch (nominated, best novel){{Cite web |title=SFE: Lee, Tanith |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lee_tanith |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}
• 1980: Death's Master (winner, best novel)Hardy, Graham. "August Derleth Award." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 5 October 2014. Web. 13 October 2015.
• 1980: Red As Blood (nominated, best short story{{Cite web |title=sfadb : Tanith Lee Awards |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Tanith_Lee |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=www.sfadb.com}})
• 1981: Kill The Dead (nominated, best novel)
• 1999: Jedella Ghost (nominated, best short story)
• 2000: Where Does The Town Go at Night? (nominated, best short story)

Lambda Awards

• 2010: Disturbed by Her Song (nominated, best LGBT speculative fiction)[https://locusmag.com/2011/03/2011-lambda-awards-sffh-shortlist/]

Infinity Award

• 2024: Posthumous lifetime achievement award{{cite web|url=https://www.sfwa.org/2024/03/12/tanith-lee-announced-as-2024-sfwa-infinity-award-recipient/ |title=Tanith Lee Announced as 2024 SFWA Infinity Award Recipient |publisher=SFWA |date=12 March 2024 |access-date=12 March 2024}}

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• Barron, Neil, ed. Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction (5th ed.). (Libraries Unlimited, 2004) {{ISBN|1-59158-171-0}}.
• Clute, John and Grant, John. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (2nd US edition). New York: St Martin's Griffin, 1999. {{ISBN|0-312-19869-8}}. (Paperback)
• Clute, John. Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1995. {{ISBN|0-7513-0202-3}}.
• Clute, John, and Peter Nicholls, eds., The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. St Albans, Herts, UK: Granada Publishing, 1979. {{ISBN|0-586-05380-8}}.
• Clute, John, and Peter Nicholls, eds., The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. {{ISBN|0-312-13486-X}}.
• Disch, Thomas M. The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of. Touchstone, 1998.
• Reginald, Robert. Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975–1991. Detroit, MI/Washington, DC/London: Gale Research, 1992. {{ISBN|0-8103-1825-3}}.
• Westfahl, Gary, ed. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders (three volumes). Greenwood Press, 2005.
• Wolfe, Gary K. Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Glossary and Guide to Scholarship. Greenwood Press, 1986. {{ISBN|0-313-22981-3}}.

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• [http://www.daughterofthenight.com/ Daughter of the Night] – annotated Tanith Lee bibliography
• [http://voyageronline.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/tanith-lee-on-the-silver-metal-lover Tanith Lee on The Silver Metal Lover (1981)] – 2009 account by Lee
• [http://www.iblist.com/author.php?id=354 Biography] on the Internet Book List
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