Gwyneth Jones (novelist) explained

Gwyneth Jones
Pseudonym:	Ann Halam
Birth Date:	1952 2, df=yes
Birth Place:	Manchester, England
Occupation:	Novelist, critic
Language:	English
Alma Mater:	University of Sussex
Genre:	Science fiction, high fantasy
Notableworks:	Bold as Love (2001)
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

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

Width=22%	Name	Width=23%	Published	Width=21%	ISBN	Notes
Water in the Air	London: Macmillan, 1977		as Gwyneth A Jones
The Influence of Ironwood	London: Macmillan, 1978		as Gwyneth A Jones
The Exchange	London: Macmillan, 1979		as Gwyneth A Jones
Dear Hill	London: Macmillan, 1980		as Gwyneth A Jones
Divine Endurance	London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984
Escape Plans	London: Allen & Unwin, 1986		Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1987^[3]
Kairos	London: Unwin Hyman, 1988		Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1989^[4]
The Hidden Ones	London: The Women's Press, 1988 (paper)
Flower Dust	London: Headline, 1993
White Queen	London: Gollancz, 1991		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		Book 2 of The Aleutian Trilogy; BSFA nominee, 1994;^[7] Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1995^[8]
Phoenix Cafe	London: Gollancz, 1997		Book 3 of The Aleutian Trilogy
Bold as Love	London: Gollancz, 2001		Book 1 in the Bold As Love Cycle; Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, 2002;^[9] BSFA nominee, 2001;^[10] British Fantasy Award nominee, 2002
Castles Made of Sand	London: Gollancz, 2002		Book 2 in the Bold As Love Cycle; British Science Fiction Award nominee, 2002
Midnight Lamp	London: Gollancz, 2003		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		Book 4 in the Bold as Love Cycle
Rainbow Bridge	London: Gollancz, 2006 (paper)		Book 5 in the Bold As Love Cycle
Life	Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2004 (paper)		Philip K. Dick Award winner, 2004;James Tiptree, Jr. Award shortlist, 2004;^[13]
Spirit: or The Princess of Bois Dormant^[14]	London: Gollancz, 2008		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).
• Grazing the Long Acre. Hornsea: PS Publishing, 2009.
• The Buonarotti Quartet. Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2009 (paper).
• The Universe of Things. Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2011 (trade paper).

Short stories

• "Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland" (1996) in (anthology) and (2007) in (anthology)
• "Saving Tiamaat" (2007) in The New Space Opera (anthology)
• "The Ki-anna" (2010) in Engineering Infinity (anthology)^{[15] [16] [17]}
• "A Planet Called Desire" (2015) in Old Venus (anthology)^[18]

Non-fiction

• Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999.
• Imagination / Space. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2009 (paper).
• Joanna Russ. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2019.

As Ann Halam

• Ally, Ally, Aster. London: Allen & Unwin, 1981.
• The Alder Tree. London: Allen & Unwin, 1981.
• King Death's Garden. London: Orchard Books, 1986.
• The Inland trilogy
  • The Daymaker. London: Orchard Books, 1987.
  • Transformations. London: Orchard Books, 1988.
  • The Skybreaker. London: Orchard Books, 1990.
• Dinosaur Junction. London: Orchard Books, 1992.
• The Haunting of Jessica Raven. London: Orion, 1994.
• The Fear Man. London: Orion, 1995.
• The Powerhouse. London: Orion, 1997.
• Crying in the Dark. London: Dolphin, 1998 (paper).
• The N.I.M.R.O.D. Conspiracy. London: Dolphin, 1999 (paper).
• Don't Open Your Eyes. London: Dolphin, 1999 (paper).
• The Shadow on the Stairs. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2000 (paper).
• Dr. Franklin's Island. London: Orion/Dolphin, 2001.
• Taylor Five. London: Dolphin, 2002 (paper).
• Finders Keepers. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2004 (paper).
• Siberia. London: Orion, 2005. (shortlist, Booktrust Teenage Prize)
• Snakehead. London: Orion, 2007.

External links

• Gwyneth's personal blog since 2009
  • 1997 interview at Spike Magazine
• Interview Independent Online

Notes and References

1. Book: Brown . Steven T. . Lunning . Frenchy . Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human . University of Minnesota Press. 1 November 2008 . 248, Note 7. Machinic desires: Hans Bellmer’s Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. 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. . 978-0816654826. https://books.google.com/books?id=FM9Y5EKSOakC&pg=PA248. 2 December 2017.
2. Web site: World Fantasy Convention . Award Winners and Nominees . 4 February 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html . 1 December 2010 . dmy-all .
3. Web site: 1987 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 29 June 2009.
4. Web site: 1989 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 29 June 2009.
5. Web site: 1991 Winners. James Tiptree, Jr. Award. 10 December 2010.
6. Web site: 1992 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 29 June 2009.
7. Web site: 1994 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 29 June 2009.
8. Web site: 1995 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 29 June 2009.
9. Web site: 2002 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 29 June 2009.
10. Web site: 2001 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 29 June 2009.
11. Web site: 2003 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 29 June 2009.
12. Web site: 2004 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 29 June 2009.
13. Web site: 2004 Short List. James Tiptree, Jr. Award. 12 March 2010. 10 December 2010.
14. Jones has published a webpage giving the background to Spirit, and which also includes several linked short stories: Spirit
15. Web site: Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early December . . Lois . Tilton . Lois Tilton . 7 December 2010 . 6 January 2015.
16. Web site: Book Review: Engineering Infinity (ed) Jonathan Strahan . Nigel . Seel . ScienceFiction.com . 11 April 2011 . 6 January 2015.
17. Web site: Engineering Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan . Robert E. . Waters . Tangent . 8 March 2011 . 6 January 2015 . 13 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170413081542/http://www.tangentonline.com/print--other-reviewsmenu-263/anthologies-reviewsmenu-107/1528-engineering-infinity-edited-by-jonathan-strahan . dead .
18. Web site: Not A Blog: Venus In March . 19 June 2014 . GRRM.livejournal.com . 27 September 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140821044623/http://grrm.livejournal.com/374059.html?thread=19204907 . 21 August 2014 . dmy-all .