Gwyneth Jones (1) (1952–)
Autore di White Queen
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Gwyneth Jones (1) ha come alias Gwyneth A. Jones.
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Lynne Fox
Serie
Opere di Gwyneth Jones
Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias Gwyneth A. Jones.
Deconstructing the Starships: Essays and Review (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts &… (1998) 38 copie
The Tomb Wife 8 copie
The Vicar of Mars [short story] 6 copie
La Cenerentola 5 copie
The Voyage Out 5 copie
Balinese Dancer [short fiction] 5 copie
Collision [short story] 4 copie
Cheats 3 copie
The Snow Apples [short fiction] 3 copie
Stone Free (Gollancz) 3 copie
Blue Clay Blues 2 copie
Gravegoods 2 copie
Grandmother's Footsteps 2 copie
In The Forest Of The Queen 2 copie
The Seventh Gamer 1 copia
Total Internal Reflection 1 copia
Destroyer Of Worlds 1 copia
Identifying The Project 1 copia
The Eastern Succession 1 copia
Bold as love; the back story 1 copia
End of Oil 1 copia
The Lovers 1 copia
Bold As Love [short story] 1 copia
A North Light 1 copia
Opere correlate
Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias Gwyneth A. Jones.
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (2006) — Collaboratore — 177 copie
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (2019) — Collaboratore — 130 copie
Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind: An Anthology of Original Stories (1985) — Collaboratore — 112 copie
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2: Stories for Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (2005) — Collaboratore — 99 copie
The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact (2018) — Collaboratore — 58 copie
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Collaboratore — 53 copie
Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism (1999) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of the UK's Healthcare Workers (2020) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on Their Craft and Ideas (Insights) (1992) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction (2022) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Jones, Gwyneth Ann
- Altri nomi
- Halam, Ann
- Data di nascita
- 1952-02-14
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK - Istruzione
- University of Sussex
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
critic - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1988)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 67
- Opere correlate
- 85
- Utenti
- 2,191
- Popolarità
- #11,711
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 76
- ISBN
- 90
- Lingue
- 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.… (altro)