Gwyneth Jones (novelist)
English novelist (b. 1952)
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 .[ 1] 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 ,[ 2] 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
Name
Published
ISBN
Notes
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[ 3]
Kairos
London: Unwin Hyman, 1988
ISBN 0-04-440163-9
Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1989[ 4]
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; James Tiptree, Jr. Award Winner (tie), 1991;[ 5]
Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1992[ 6]
North Wind
London: Gollancz, 1994
ISBN 0-575-05449-2
Book 2 of The Aleutian Trilogy; BSFA nominee, 1994;[ 7] Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1995[ 8]
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; Arthur C. Clarke Award winner , 2002;[ 9] BSFA nominee, 2001;[ 10] British Fantasy Award nominee, 2002[ 9]
Castles Made of Sand
London: Gollancz, 2002
ISBN 0-575-07032-3
Book 2 in the Bold As Love Cycle; British Science Fiction Award nominee, 2002[ 9]
Midnight Lamp
London: Gollancz, 2003
ISBN 0-575-07470-1
Book 3 in the Bold As Love Cycle; British Science Fiction Award nominee, 2003;[ 11] Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 2004[ 12]
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
Philip K. Dick Award winner , 2005;[ 13]
James Tiptree, Jr. Award shortlist, 2004;[ 14]
Spirit: or The Princess of Bois Dormant [ 15]
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
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
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
^ Brown, Steven T. (1 November 2008). "Machinic desires: Hans Bellmer's Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence " . In Lunning, Frenchy (ed.). Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human . University of Minnesota Press . p. 248, Note 7. ISBN 978-0816654826 . Retrieved 2 December 2017 . 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.
^ World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees" . Archived from the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2011 .
^ "1987 Award Winners & Nominees" . Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 June 2009 .
^ "1989 Award Winners & Nominees" . Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 June 2009 .
^ "1991 Winners" . James Tiptree, Jr. Award . Retrieved 10 December 2010 .
^ "1992 Award Winners & Nominees" . Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 June 2009 .
^ "1994 Award Winners & Nominees" . Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 June 2009 .
^ "1995 Award Winners & Nominees" . Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 June 2009 .
^ a b c "2002 Award Winners & Nominees" . Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 June 2009 .
^ "2001 Award Winners & Nominees" . Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 June 2009 .
^ "2003 Award Winners & Nominees" . Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 June 2009 .
^ "2004 Award Winners & Nominees" . Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 June 2009 .
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"2005 Award Winners & Nominees" . Worlds Without End . Retrieved 26 August 2024 .
^ "2004 Short List" . James Tiptree, Jr. Award . 12 March 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2010 .
^ Jones has published a webpage giving the background to Spirit , and which also includes several linked short stories: Spirit Archived 3 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ Tilton, Lois (7 December 2010). "Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early December" . Locus . Retrieved 6 January 2015 .
^ Seel, Nigel (11 April 2011). "Book Review: Engineering Infinity (ed) Jonathan Strahan" . ScienceFiction.com. Retrieved 6 January 2015 .
^ Waters, Robert E. (8 March 2011). "Engineering Infinity , edited by Jonathan Strahan" . Tangent . Archived from the original on 13 April 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2015 .
^ "Not A Blog: Venus In March" . GRRM.livejournal.com . 19 June 2014. Archived from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014 .
External links
Retrospective winners 1991–2000
A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason (1991, tie)
White Queen by Gwyneth Jones (1991, tie)
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh (1992)
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (1993)
"The Matter of Seggri " by Ursula K. Le Guin (1994, tie)
Larque on the Wing by Nancy Springer (1994, tie)
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand (1995, tie)
The Memoirs Of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Theodore Roszak (1995, tie)
"Mountain Ways" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1996, tie)
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (1996, tie)
Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey (1997, tie)
"Travels With The Snow Queen" by Kelly Link (1997, tie)
"Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation " by Raphael Carter (1998)
The Conqueror's Child by Suzy McKee Charnas (1999)
Wild Life by Molly Gloss (2000)
2001–2010
The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto (2001)
Light by M. John Harrison (2002, tie)
"Stories for Men" by John Kessel (2002, tie)
Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls by Matt Ruff (2003)
Camouflage by Joe Haldeman (2004, tie)
Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo (2004, tie)
Air by Geoff Ryman (2005)
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente (2006, tie)
Half Life by Shelley Jackson (2006, tie)
James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (2006, special recognition)
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall (2007)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (2008, tie)
Filter House by Nisi Shawl (2008, tie)
Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales by Greer Gilman (2009, tie)
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga (2009, tie)
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić (2010)
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