Gwyneth Jones (novelist)
{{Short description|English novelist (b. 1952)}}
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| pseudonym = Ann Halam
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| birth_place = Manchester, England
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| occupation = Novelist, critic
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| alma_mater = University of Sussex
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| genre = Science fiction, high fantasy
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| notableworks = Bold as Love (2001)
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| awards = World Fantasy Award, BSFA short story award, Children of the Night Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Philip K. Dick Award, James Tiptree Jr. Award
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Gwyneth Jones (born 14 February 1952) is an English science fiction and fantasy writer and critic, and a young adult/children's writer under the pen name Ann Halam.
Biography and writing career
Jones was born in Manchester, England. Education at a convent school was followed by an undergraduate degree in European history of ideas at the University of Sussex. She has written for younger readers since 1980 under the pseudonym Ann Halam and, under that name, has published more than twenty novels. In 1984 Divine Endurance, a science fiction novel for adults, was published under her own name and in which she created the term gynoid.{{cite book |author-last= Brown |author-first= Steven T. | editor-last= Lunning |editor-first= Frenchy |title= Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human |publisher= University of Minnesota Press|date=1 November 2008 |page=248, Note 7| chapter= Machinic desires: Hans Bellmer’s Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence| quote= As Tatsumi Takayuki points out, the term "gynoid" was first coined by British science fiction novelist Gwyneth Jones in Divine Endurance […] and later appropriated by other authors and artists, from Richard Calder to Sorayama Hajime. |isbn=978-0816654826| chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FM9Y5EKSOakC&pg=PA248| access-date= 2 December 2017}} She continues to write using these two names for the respective audiences.
Jones' works are mostly science fiction and near future high fantasy with strong themes of gender and feminism. She is the winner of two 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 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |archive-date=1 December 2010 |df=dmy-all }} BSFA short story award, Children of the Night Award from the Dracula Society, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and co-winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award. She is generally well-reviewed critically and, as a feminist science fiction writer, is often compared to Ursula K. Le Guin, though the two authors are very much distinct in both content and style of work.
Gwyneth Jones lives in Brighton, England, with her husband and son.
Bibliography
=Novels=
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|Water in the Air |London: Macmillan, 1977 |{{ISBN|0-333-22757-3}} |as Gwyneth A Jones |
| The Influence of Ironwood
|London: Macmillan, 1978 |{{ISBN|0-333-23838-9}} |as Gwyneth A Jones |
| The Exchange
|London: Macmillan, 1979 |{{ISBN|0-333-26896-2}} |as Gwyneth A Jones |
| Dear Hill
|London: Macmillan, 1980 |{{ISBN|0-333-30106-4}} |as Gwyneth A Jones |
| Divine Endurance
|London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984 |{{ISBN|0-04-823246-7}} | |
| Escape Plans
|London: Allen & Unwin, 1986 |{{ISBN|0-04-823263-7}} |Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1987{{cite web | url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1987 | title = 1987 Award Winners & Nominees | work = Worlds Without End | access-date=29 June 2009 }} |
| Kairos
|London: Unwin Hyman, 1988 |{{ISBN|0-04-440163-9}} |Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1989{{cite web | url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1989 | title = 1989 Award Winners & Nominees | work = Worlds Without End | access-date=29 June 2009 }} |
| The Hidden Ones
|London: The Women's Press, 1988 (paper) |{{ISBN|0-7043-4910-8}} | |
| Flower Dust
|London: Headline, 1993 |{{ISBN|0-7472-0846-8}} | |
| White Queen
|London: Gollancz, 1991 |{{ISBN|0-575-04629-5}} |Book 1 of The Aleutian Trilogy; | url = http://tiptree.org/?page_id=54 | title = 1991 Winners | work = James Tiptree, Jr. Award | access-date=10 December 2010 }} Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1992{{cite web | url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1992 | title = 1992 Award Winners & Nominees | work = Worlds Without End | access-date=29 June 2009 }} |
| North Wind
|London: Gollancz, 1994 |{{ISBN|0-575-05449-2}} |Book 2 of The Aleutian Trilogy; | url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1994 | title = 1994 Award Winners & Nominees | work = Worlds Without End | access-date=29 June 2009 }} | url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1995 | title = 1995 Award Winners & Nominees | work = Worlds Without End | access-date=29 June 2009 }} |
| Phoenix Cafe
|London: Gollancz, 1997 |{{ISBN|0-575-06068-9}} |Book 3 of The Aleutian Trilogy |
| Bold as Love
|London: Gollancz, 2001 |{{ISBN|0-575-07030-7}} |Book 1 in the Bold As Love Cycle; | url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2002 | title = 2002 Award Winners & Nominees | work = Worlds Without End | access-date=29 June 2009 }} | url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2001 | title = 2001 Award Winners & Nominees | work = Worlds Without End | access-date=29 June 2009 |
| Castles Made of Sand
|London: Gollancz, 2002 |{{ISBN|0-575-07032-3}} |Book 2 in the Bold As Love Cycle; |
| Midnight Lamp
|London: Gollancz, 2003 |{{ISBN|0-575-07470-1}} |Book 3 in the Bold As Love Cycle; | url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2003 | title = 2003 Award Winners & Nominees | work = Worlds Without End | access-date=29 June 2009 }} | url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2004 | title = 2004 Award Winners & Nominees | work = Worlds Without End | access-date=29 June 2009 }} |
| Band of Gypsys
|London: Gollancz, 2005 |{{ISBN|0-575-07043-9}} |Book 4 in the Bold as Love Cycle |
| Rainbow Bridge
|London: Gollancz, 2006 (paper) |{{ISBN|0-575-07715-8}} |Book 5 in the Bold As Love Cycle |
| Life
|Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2004 (paper) |{{ISBN|0-9746559-2-9}} | {{cite web | url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2005 | title = 2005 Award Winners & Nominees | work = Worlds Without End | access-date=26 Aug 2024 }} James Tiptree, Jr. Award shortlist, 2004;{{cite web | url = http://tiptree.org/?page_id=137 | title = 2004 Short List | work = James Tiptree, Jr. Award | date = 12 March 2010 | access-date=10 December 2010 }} |
| Spirit: or The Princess of Bois DormantJones has published a webpage giving the background to Spirit, and which also includes several linked short stories: [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gwynethann/SPIRIT.htm Spirit] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003022341/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gwynethann/SPIRIT.htm |date=3 October 2008 }}
|London: Gollancz, 2008 |{{ISBN|978-0-575-07473-6}} |Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 2010 |
| The Grasshopper's Child
|London: Self-published, 2014 (ebook) |ISBN |Book 6 in the Bold As Love Cycle |
=Fiction collections=
- Identifying the Object. Austin: Swan Press, 1993 (paper). No ISBN
- Seven Tales and a Fable. Cambridge: Edgewood Press, 1995 (paper). {{ISBN|0-9629066-5-4}}
- Grazing the Long Acre. Hornsea: PS Publishing, 2009. {{ISBN|978-1-906301-56-9}}
- The Buonarotti Quartet. Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2009 (paper).
- The Universe of Things. Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2011 (trade paper). {{ISBN|978-1-933500-44-7}}
=Short stories=
- "Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland" (1996) in Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex (anthology) and (2007) in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (anthology)
- "Saving Tiamaat" (2007) in The New Space Opera (anthology)
- "The Ki-anna" (2010) in Engineering Infinity (anthology){{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2010/12/lois-tilton-reviews-short-fiction-early-december/#enginfinity |title=Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early December |work=Locus |first=Lois |last=Tilton |author-link=Lois Tilton |date=7 December 2010 |access-date=6 January 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://sciencefiction.com/2011/04/11/book-review-engineering-infinity-ed-jonathan-strahan/ |title=Book Review: Engineering Infinity (ed) Jonathan Strahan |first=Nigel |last=Seel |publisher=ScienceFiction.com |date=11 April 2011 |access-date=6 January 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.tangentonline.com/print--other-reviewsmenu-263/anthologies-reviewsmenu-107/1528-engineering-infinity-edited-by-jonathan-strahan |title=Engineering Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan |first=Robert E. |last=Waters |website=Tangent |date=8 March 2011 |access-date=6 January 2015 |archive-date=13 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413081542/http://www.tangentonline.com/print--other-reviewsmenu-263/anthologies-reviewsmenu-107/1528-engineering-infinity-edited-by-jonathan-strahan |url-status=dead }}
- "A Planet Called Desire" (2015) in Old Venus (anthology){{cite web|url=http://grrm.livejournal.com/374059.html?thread=19204907 |title=Not A Blog: Venus In March |date=19 June 2014 |website=GRRM.livejournal.com |access-date=27 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821044623/http://grrm.livejournal.com/374059.html?thread=19204907 |archive-date=21 August 2014 |df=dmy-all }}
=Non-fiction=
- Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. {{ISBN|0-85323-783-2}}
- Imagination / Space. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2009 (paper).
- Joanna Russ. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2019. {{ISBN|978-0-252-05148-7}}
=As Ann Halam=
- Ally, Ally, Aster. London: Allen & Unwin, 1981. {{ISBN|0-04-823192-4}}
- The Alder Tree. London: Allen & Unwin, 1981. {{ISBN|0-04-823205-X}}
- King Death's Garden. London: Orchard Books, 1986. {{ISBN|1-85213-003-2}}
- The Inland trilogy
- The Daymaker. London: Orchard Books, 1987. {{ISBN|1-85213-019-9}}
- Transformations. London: Orchard Books, 1988. {{ISBN|1-85213-119-5}}
- The Skybreaker. London: Orchard Books, 1990. {{ISBN|1-85213-183-7}}
- Dinosaur Junction. London: Orchard Books, 1992. {{ISBN|1-85213-369-4}}
- The Haunting of Jessica Raven. London: Orion, 1994. {{ISBN|1-85881-050-7}}
- The Fear Man. London: Orion, 1995. {{ISBN|1-85881-158-9}}
- The Powerhouse. London: Orion, 1997. {{ISBN|1-85881-405-7}}
- Crying in the Dark. London: Dolphin, 1998 (paper). {{ISBN|1-85881-394-8}}
- The N.I.M.R.O.D. Conspiracy. London: Dolphin, 1999 (paper). {{ISBN|1-85881-677-7}}
- Don't Open Your Eyes. London: Dolphin, 1999 (paper). {{ISBN|1-85881-791-9}}
- The Shadow on the Stairs. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2000 (paper). {{ISBN|1-902260-57-0}}
- Dr. Franklin's Island. London: Orion/Dolphin, 2001. {{ISBN|1-85881-396-4}}
- Taylor Five. London: Dolphin, 2002 (paper). {{ISBN|1-85881-792-7}}
- Finders Keepers. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2004 (paper). {{ISBN|1-84299-203-1}}
- Siberia. London: Orion, 2005. {{ISBN|1-84255-129-9}} (shortlist, Booktrust Teenage Prize)
- Snakehead. London: Orion, 2007. {{ISBN|1-84255-526-X}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.boldaslove.co.uk/blog/ Gwyneth's personal blog] [http://www.boldaslove.co.uk/blog/index.php?/archive since 2009]
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- [http://www.spikemagazine.com/0297jone.php 1997 interview] at Spike Magazine
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081202074546/http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/interviews/article82235.ece Interview] Independent Online
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