Gwyneth Jones – författare

Experimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, meanwhile, helped shape the field and still exercise a powerful influence in both SF and feminist literary studies.Award-winning author and critic Gwyneth Jones offers a new appraisal of Russ's work and ideas. After years working in male-dominated SF, Russ emerged in the late 1960s with Alyx, the uber-capable can-do heroine at the heart of Picnic on Paradise and other popular stories and books. Soon, Russ's fearless embrace of gender politics and life as an out lesbian made her a target for male outrage while feminist classics like The Female Man and The Two of Them took SF in innovative new directions. Jones also delves into Russ's longtime work as a critic of figures as diverse as Lovecraft and Cather, her foundational place in feminist fandom, important essays like "Amor Vincit Foeminam," and her career in academia.

Experimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, meanwhile, helped shape the field and still exercise a powerful influence in both SF and feminist literary studies.Award-winning author and critic Gwyneth Jones offers a new appraisal of Russ's work and ideas. After years working in male-dominated SF, Russ emerged in the late 1960s with Alyx, the uber-capable can-do heroine at the heart of Picnic on Paradise and other popular stories and books. Soon, Russ's fearless embrace of gender politics and life as an out lesbian made her a target for male outrage while feminist classics like The Female Man and The Two of Them took SF in innovative new directions. Jones also delves into Russ's longtime work as a critic of figures as diverse as Lovecraft and Cather, her foundational place in feminist fandom, important essays like "Amor Vincit Foeminam," and her career in academia.

On a desperately overcrowded future Earth, crippled by climate change, the most unlikely hope is better than none. Governments turn to Big Science to provide them with the dreams that will keep the masses compliant. The Needle is one such dream, an installation where the most abstruse theoretical science is being tested: science that might make human travel to a habitable exoplanet distantly feasible. When the Needle's director offers her underground compound as a training base, Kir is thrilled to be invited to join the team, even though she knows it's only because her brain is host to a quantum artificial intelligence called Altair. But Altair knows something he can't tell. Kir, like all humans, is programmed to ignore future dangers. Between the artificial blocks in his mind, and the blocks evolution has built into his host, how is he going to convince her the sky is falling?

"Gwyneth Jones is the finest British science fiction writer of her generation" - Bruce Sterling"One of Britain's most brilliant sci-fi writers" - GUARDIAN"A tour de force of faith, politics, technology, magic, humanity and England as it's never before been seen" - Amazon ReviewerIt's Dissolution Summer. The anti-globalisation movement threatens stability throughout Europe, supported by rioting youth, bitterly disaffected voters, and encroaching environmental doom. Looking for any opportunity to cling to power, a Countercultural Think Tank tries to help the UK government look cool.For three rockers - Ax Preston, soft-spoken biracial guitar virtuoso; Sage Pender, techno-wizard-king of the indie scene; and Fiorinda Slater, baby punk-diva with a horrendous past - the world will never be the same. Will rock-and-roll's revolutionary promise finally deliver, or will violence drown hippie idealism in rivers of blood?

The BOLD AS LOVE series is a world of daring, dread and enchantment, a world that could almost be ours: a brilliant combination of myth, magic and pop culture.Ax Preston, Sage Pender and Fiorinda, charismatic leaders of the Rock-n-Roll Reich, have beaten the cascade of disasters that followed the collapse of the former United Kingdom. Now they have to find some resolution to the impossible dynamics of their own relationship, while the world keeps falling apart. There are fearsome things going on in England's rural hinterland, and in Continental Europe the green nazis are planning a final solution to desperate environmental damage. But there's nothing the Triumvirate can't handle - until Fiorinda's father, a monster of the kind the world has never before known, reaches out to reclaim his magical child, the flower-bride.And that's when darkness falls over Ax's England . . .Harrowing . . . enchanting - a dark fairy tale with an epic sweep, set in a world very like our own.

"Seductively weird ... populated by characters that live on in the mind long after the book's been put back on the shelf" - Iain Banks"a true, sophisticated modern classic" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars2038. Earth has been ravaged by a series of natural disasters. Retroviruses run rampant throughout its population. Economic failure has destabilised the world.Then the aliens arrive.With no understanding of their intent, the anti-alien group White Queen works to turn humans against these extraterrestrial tourists. Caught in the middle is Johnny Guglio, an American exile whose only fault was living near the landing site, and Braemar Wilson, a cutthroat reporter who will do whatever she needs to get ahead of the story. It seems that being caught in the middle is the best place for them to uncover the truth.White Queen is the first in Gwyneth Jones' critically acclaimed Aleutian Trilogy.

"profound skill as a writer ... Jones does a remarkable job" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars"Would recommend for those looking for something a little different. If this is like your usual read, are you ok?" - Goodreads ReviewerThe world is saved. The world is ending. Both of these things are true.The UK's Conservative government is responsible for increased wealth disparity, an ever-more militant police state, and rising civil discontent.Kairos - a pharmaceutical breakthrough - allows the user not just to see a different world but shape it.As disparate groups of people try to bend the world to their will, reality itself reaches breaking point. With society so divided, is there any way to pull the world back together?

Anna Senoz is a brilliant young scientist, working towards her PhD and a bright career when she makes a discovery that could change the world of genetics forever.The 'Transferred Y' chromosome, however, isn't as welcomed by her peers, or the wider society. Anna is forced to choose between her dedication to her discovery, the progress of her career, and her responsibilities to her family. Does scientific integrity mean speaking out against the naysayers? Are the potential ramifications of her discovery too wide-reaching for her to risk pursuing it?Winner of the 2004 Philip K. Dick award, Life examines society's fixation on biological sex, the struggles of women in STEM, and the pressures placed upon them by families, colleagues and friends alike. Perfect for fans of alternate histories and near-future feminist SFF, like The Handmaid's Tale and Vox.