Gwyneth Jones (1) (1952–)
Autor(a) de White Queen
Para outros autores com o nome Gwyneth Jones, ver a página de desambiguação.
Gwyneth Jones (1) foi considerado como pseudónimo de Gwyneth A. Jones.
About the Author
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Séries
Obras por Gwyneth Jones
Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como Gwyneth A. Jones.
Deconstructing the Starships: Essays and Review (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts &… (1998) 39 exemplares
Imagination/Space: Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology, and Politics (2009) 25 exemplares
The Tomb Wife 8 exemplares
The Vicar of Mars [short story] 6 exemplares
La Cenerentola 5 exemplares
The Voyage Out 5 exemplares
Balinese Dancer [short fiction] 5 exemplares
Collision [short story] 4 exemplares
Cheats 3 exemplares
The Snow Apples [short fiction] 3 exemplares
Stone Free (Gollancz) 3 exemplares
Blue Clay Blues 2 exemplares
Gravegoods 2 exemplares
The Universe of Things {short story} 2 exemplares
Grandmother's Footsteps 2 exemplares
In The Forest Of The Queen 2 exemplares
Identifying the Object {short story} 1 exemplar
A Planet Called Desire (novelette) 1 exemplar
The Seventh Gamer 1 exemplar
Total Internal Reflection 1 exemplar
Grazing The Long Acre [short story] 1 exemplar
Destroyer Of Worlds 1 exemplar
Identifying The Project 1 exemplar
The Eastern Succession 1 exemplar
Bold as love; the back story 1 exemplar
End of Oil 1 exemplar
The Lovers 1 exemplar
Bold As Love [short story] 1 exemplar
A North Light 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como Gwyneth A. Jones.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006) — Contribuidor — 528 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (2008) — Contribuidor — 477 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997) — Contribuidor — 416 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2009) — Contribuidor — 392 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012) — Contribuidor — 239 exemplares
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (2006) — Contribuidor — 177 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016) — Contribuidor — 158 exemplares
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (2019) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind: An Anthology of Original Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 111 exemplares
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2: Stories for Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (2005) — Contribuidor — 99 exemplares
The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact (2018) — Contribuidor — 58 exemplares
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism (1999) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of the UK's Healthcare Workers (2020) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on Their Craft and Ideas (Insights) (1992) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction (2022) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Jones, Gwyneth Ann
- Outros nomes
- Halam, Ann
- Data de nascimento
- 1952-02-14
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK - Educação
- University of Sussex
- Ocupações
- novelist
critic - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1988)
Membros
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Listas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 67
- Also by
- 85
- Membros
- 2,200
- Popularidade
- #11,664
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 76
- ISBN
- 90
- Línguas
- 3
But to start with, I found the premise and characters in this novel not to my liking. I've always had something of a semi-detached relationship with the counterculture; and I suppose I identified as a Young Fogey back in the days when I was still young, although my knowledge of and contact with the counterculture was always sufficient for me to know about it, identify those places where I was in tune with it, and smile indulgently at everything else. That also meant that sometimes, I picked up on issues that others didn't immediately see, and my grasp of stuff sometimes confounded people who'd think things like "How does tweedy Robert know so much about lesbian symbiology?", which amused me. But hey, I've been to festivals and slept under canvas. My political alignment helps, too.
And yet, to begin with I was reading the novel and thinking "I don't identify with these characters." There's one character who looks and behaves like a walk-on nihilist grunge villain from Gotham. The novel, published around 2000, throws us into a near-future scenario that is now on a wholly divergent timeline. And Jones' idea of what Whitehall civil servants and politicians were like was perhaps ten years out of date in 2000; Tony Blair's "Cool Britannia" seems to have either passed her by or been treated as mere window-dressing, whereas that generation of politicians and officials were more in touch with the counterculture than people realise - even some of those supposedly in the loop, such as certain SpAds (special advisors), who put out an appeal for "weirdos and misfits" to join government whilst overlooking those already working away under their noses. Well, I've written about that before (https://robertday154.wordpress.com/2020/01/18/weirdos-and-misfits/), so enough said.
I was certainly contemplating not finishing the book if I didn't get any better vibes off it by the 50-60% point. But then some friends assured me that coming to terms with the characters was something of a slow burn; and sure enough, I found myself warming to the central triumvirate: Fiorinda, Ax Preston and Sage. Someone else pointed out that the book was subtitled A near future fantasy and had certain Arthurian themes; and that I could see, also. Perhaps i should have taken more notice of that, as fantasy isn't really my thing, especially if the writer is trying to combine it with a more ostensibly "realistic" setting at the outset.
There are also some other things I found problematical. There's a major thread in the book of rock musicians and child abuse. The attitude in Bold as Love seems to be "Everyone knew but no-one said." I'm sure that's true; it's what people said about Jimmy Saville (after the event). Sadly, that rather holes the argument about it being "fantasy" under the waterline, and some coming to this book now may want to reject it on those grounds. There is also some overt Islamophobia that goes directly unchallenged despite the question of Islam in Britain being addressed positively later on. The same goes for trans issues; Gwyneth Jones' treatment of themes which might resonate unfavourably with some readers twenty years later perhaps just goes to show how far we have come.
So: an important book from a major writer, to be sure; but some readers will have to work hard at it before they begin to get returns. There is an irreverent humour at play throughout the novel, and Jones knows her fantastic literature well enough to pepper the text with in-jokes. And the Gollancz hardcover is a lovely thing with an Anne Sudworth cover.… (mais)