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	Gwyneth Jones (novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gwyneth Jones (February 14, 1952 –), a British science fiction and fantasy writer and critic.
		Jones' works are mostly science fiction and near future high fantasy with strong themes of gender and feminism.
		Gwyneth Jones lives in Brighton, England, with her husband and son.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gwyneth_Jones_(novelist) (324 words)

	BBC - Pobol Y Cwm - Gwyneth Jones - Llinor ap Gwynedd
		Gwyneth made her first appearance at the beginning of 2003 as a somewhat mysterious character in the background of Dai Sgafalde's life.
		Gwyneth has a casual attitude to relationsips and has become involved with Mark Jones and Hywel Llewellyn, using the former to exact revenge on Kath Jones for throwing her out of her tattoo unit.
		Gwyneth is a person that will cause a stir wherever she is especially in a small village like Cwmderi.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/pobolycwm/characters/pages/gwynethjones.shtml (306 words)

	Reviews: March 2001
		Gwyneth Jones is one of the two or three most important writers of the current sf boom in the UK, and a highly regarded exponent of recent feminist sf.
		Jones does not strive to be an original theorist, and her references to deconstruction are only occasional and somewhat idiosyncratic.
		Jones is the only other critic, in my experience, who sees what I consider one of Gibson’s dominant positive traits as a writer: his sense of pity for his characters, and grief for the ruined world they must inhabit.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/birs/bir83a.htm (4890 words)

	Review: Gwyneth Jones's Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality, reviewed by Wendy Pearson
		Jones carries this process through in several of the novel's essays and some of the book reviews to a consideration of specific areas of SF writing, most notably cyberpunk and feminist SF.
		One of the dilemmas Jones, a self-proclaimed feminist, sees in certain schools of feminist SF is the recourse to essentialism (women are women and what is most quintessential in all women is their femaleness) as a strategy for validating the lives of women in the face of a hostile patriarchal world.
		Indeed, Jones writes with a kind of British understatement that depends on her ability to say what she means with precision, while at the same time exhibiting a nice sense of humour, a penchant for irony and, occasionally, a touch of outrage.
	www.strangehorizon.com /2001/20010910/taking_apart_SF.shtml (2420 words)

	The Independent (London, England) : Books: Biography Gwyneth Jones - The music of the future; Gwyneth Jones is one of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Start / T / The Independent (London, England) / December 12, 2003 / Books: Biography Gwyneth Jones - The music of the future; Gwyneth Jones is one of this country's finest and most original writers of science fiction.
		Gwyneth Jones may have some of the accoutrements of New Agery, down to the nose-ring, but there's nothing wishy-washy about the fecund intelligence that glitters behind her wary eyes.
		Jones is considered to be one of this country's finest science fiction practitioners, a writer of visionary skills with a striking and poetic narrative style.
	static.highbeam.com /t/theindependentlondonengland/december122003/booksbiographygwynethjonesthemusicofthefuturegwyne/index.html (359 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		In Life, author Gwyneth Jones manages a delicate balancing act, showing the massive implications of a slight shift in the genes that control human gender while, at the same time, reminding readers that life goes on.
		Jones' prose is deeply engaging, drawing readers fully into her near-future setting.
		Life is, however, as elegantly structured as the DNA it examines, and in it Jones has tackled a number of tough subjects with depth and subtlety: gender roles, environmental issues, the successes and failures of feminism in addressing women's real-life problems.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue394/books2.html (659 words)

	Gwyneth Jones, Bold As Love
		Gwyneth Jones is the author of more than a dozen novels, notably her Aelutian Trilogy (White Queen, North Wind and Phoenix Cafe), which explores the invasion of Earth by a race of telepathic, hermaphroditic aliens.
		I met Gwyneth Jones at 2001: A Celebration of British Science Fiction, an academic conference held this summer in Liverpool, UK.
		She is a pleasant and personable English lady with the look of a suburban mom and the mind of a professor.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Sep01/gwynethjones.htm (192 words)

	Gwyneth Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gwyneth Jones is one of the world's leading dramatic sopranos.
		Her extensive discography includes the famous Bayreuth 1976 Centenary Ring Cycle which is also available on video, Salome, Lohengrin, Der Rosenkavalier, and Ägyptische Helena.
		In recognition of her great achievements and enormous contributions to music, Gwyneth Jones was made Dame of the British Empire in 1986.
	www.ffaire.com /events/jones.html (287 words)

	Gallery
		Gwyneth Anne Jones is the Maryland Public Television Teacher of the Year.
		Gwyneth is committed to the NTTI's "turn-key" philosophy of peer training, mentoring, sharing resources, and teaching technology skills through her school, county and state-wide programs.
		Gwyneth is a former Maryland Public Television (MPT) 1998 NTTI Master Teacher and a 1999 MPT Internet workshop presenter.
	www.thirteen.org /edonline/ntti/gallery/mpt_gwyneth.html (258 words)

	The SF Site: Letters to the SF Site
		So when Jones states she feels safe in finding a premise that won't soon become outdated by actual events indicates to me that she recognizes this as well.
		Gwyneth Jones raises a number of interesting issues here, much of which is largely tangential to what I was half-facetiously saying in the original review.
		Jones assumes that I'm some "wet behind the ears" kid whose knowledge of the Sixties is derived from Classic Rock Radio and maybe seeing the Woodstock movie a couple of times.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/mail122.htm (2493 words)

	Gwyneth Jones
		Gwyneth became best known in the 1980's when three complex adult sf books were published.
		No dates are given but Gwyneth's enormously complex Southeast Asia venue has a dying Earth feel; and the matriarchal society she depicts is riven by profound ambivalences.
		Gwyneth was born in Manchester and educated in a convent.
	www.hairy1.demon.co.uk /psfg/jones.htm (759 words)

	The SF Site: A Conversation With Gwyneth Jones
		Born in Manchester, Gwyneth Jones is a winner of both the World Fantasy Award and the James Tiptree, Jr.
		The novels are infused with themes of Arthurian romance, Celtic lore, mysticism, neuroscience, the Hollywood star machine, and, rock 'n roll (the novel titles are all taken from Jimi Hendrix songs), among other tropes that cross genre boundaries, from science fiction, fantasy and horror to the detective and road novel.
		Jones is also the author of James Tiptree Memorial Award co-winner White Queen, and sequels North Wind and Phoenix Café; Divine Endurance, Escape Plans, Kairos, and Flowerdust.
	www.sfsite.com /02b/gj170.htm (2910 words)

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		It is true the voice was on the unwieldy side for Norma, but Jones the artist showed an instinctive understanding of the style, making one wish she had tackled the role earlier in her career.
		Gwyneth Jones was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1986, is a Kammersangerin of both the Vienna and Bavarian Operas and a recipient of the German Cross of Merit, and the President of the British Wagner Society, amongst other awards.
		But primarily Gwyneth Jones is an artist of the theatre with a voice of immense richness and power that makes her a favorite in the balconies and amphitheaters of the world's opera houses where her notes hit with force and cling to the farthest corners.
	www.parterre.com /jonesbio.htm (707 words)

	Article Abstracts: #85
		Gwyneth Jones’s Aleutian novels explore the idea of humanness through her characterization of the Aleutian aliens.
		In the novels, Jones plays with the double meaning of identity as both that which uniquely identifies and that with marks sameness to explore and ultimately to deconstruct the boundary between human and alien subjectivity.
		In conclusion, I suggest that the novels also perform their own call for a new type of human subjectivity, a subjectivity articulated against that of the liberal humanist self_contained and autonomous individual.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/abstracts/a85.htm (666 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Those who are familiar only with the work of dramatic soprano Gwyneth Jones from the mid-1970s onward owe it to themselves to hear this CD, originally an LP she recorded in 1966.
		By the '70s Jones had developed a severe wobble and her pitch could be suspect; as the years progressed both of these flaws became worse.
		Since Jones was known mostly for her German-language roles (and Turandot), the two Verdi arias will come as a great surprise.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=8709 (362 words)

	Gwyneth Jones - an infinity plus profile
		Gwyneth Jones writes science fiction and fantasy for both adults and young people.
		For more information, take a look at the home page of Gwyneth Jones and her alter ego Ann Halam.
		Gwyneth's Bold as Love website covers the series: Bold as Love, Castles Made of Sand, Midnight Lamp and Band Of Gypsys.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /misc/gwyneth.htm (254 words)

	Amazon.com: Life: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		While Jones does a wonderful job of establishing the fundamental conflicts (traditional gender roles in both family and career), I feel much of her message gets lost in complex characters, subplots and otherwise trivial events.
		It is this reader's opinion that Jones spent too much time trying to shock the reader with controversial and sometimes uncomfortable characters and situations and far too little time developing the main message of gender roles in the 21st century.
		Jones truly cares for her characters and uses them to illustrate a series of fables, or in some cases folleys.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0974655929?v=glance (1758 words)

	Locus Online: Gwyneth Jones interview excerpts
		Gwyneth Jones grew up in Manchester, England, and after earning a BA degree in 1973 spent several years in the Civil Service, part of the time living in Singapore and Malaysia.
		“The ‘Bold as Love’ series, my current Gwyneth Jones project, is a big departure for me. It’s a very English story, at least at the outset: about the breakup of the United Kingdom, and what would happen if the daydreams of rock music were brought to life.
		My next Ann Halam is about a search for a lost mother, and I’m not sure about the earlier Gwyneth Jones books, but the ‘Bold as Love’ books do seem to be about fathers: dangerous fathers, demanding fathers.
	www.locusmag.com /2004/Issues/01Jones.html (982 words)

	Castles Made of Sand by Gwyneth Jones - an infinity plus review
		Jones explores the inevitable realities of such a relationship, knowing that jealousy, bitterness and guilt must all feature.
		Jones cunningly avoids middle-book-of-three syndrome, which typically delivers an unsatisfactory cliff-hanger non-ending.
		But there is such a sense of closure to this part of the story that I doubt she has any such intention.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/castlesmadeof.htm (833 words)

	InterContact '98 PR2_5
		Gwyneth Jones has a love for the alien.
		Gwyneth Jones' alien world is our world in the 21st century and beyond.
		Gwyneth Jones is, like American science fiction writer Octavia Butler, a "master" at describing love-hate relationships.
	www.ii.uib.no /~bjornts/ICW/PR2/PR2_5.html (966 words)

	Books \| The crazy world of Gwyneth Jones
		That album gave Gwyneth Jones the title for her last novel, which featured a flamboyant guitar hero destined to became the unlikely dictator of England.
		Central to the narrative is Fiorinda's continuing fear of her father, the reluctance of Ax to become Dux, and Sage's quest for a state of narcotic zen wisdom in which everything simultaneously just is.
		Jones melds modern and ancient: computer technology meets dark age religion.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4478639-99935,00.html (399 words)

	Bold as Love: Gwyneth Jones [Review © T Brown, 2001] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Jones' future England is deftly drawn, with minutiae that are more convincing than any infodump in portraying the demographic and social changes between Now and Then.
		Jones portrays these interesting times with an unfailing, occasionally grim attention to psychological and social detail.
		The music scene is healthier than ever (and Gwyneth Jones resists the temptation to describe future gigs in tedious detail).
	www.avnet.co.uk /amaranth/Critic/gjones1.htm (628 words)

	BBC - South East Wales - Hall of Fame - Gwyneth Jones - acclaimed opera singer
		Born to a musical family in Monmouthshire, Dame Gwyneth's vocal talents were recognised at school and Eisteddfodau.
		Dame Gwyneth did for Wagner and Strauss in the 70s and 80s what Callas did for Bellini and Donizetti in the 40s and 50s....that is not only to infuse the heroines with vocal power and beauty, but to give them a hightened sense of drama and womanliness, thus engendering new interest in the music.
		Dame Gwyneth was magnificent in Strauss' Elektra with Leonie Rysanek and Deberoh Voit.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/halloffame/arts/gwyneth_jones.shtml (658 words)

	Verdi: Aida - Bonaldo Giaiotti , Giuseppe Verdi , Riccardo Muti , Viorica Cortez , Wiener Staatsopernchor und Orchester ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a live performance of Verdis masterpiece of grand opera sung by British diva Gwyneth Jones, Placido Domingo and conducted by Ricardo Muti and the Vienna forces.
		Gwyneth Jones has too big an instrument to properly portray the Ethiopian princess.
		Frankly, I initially approached this set with trepidation as Jones is a rather erratic singer and her voice can be afflicted with wobble.
	www.rapmusicville.com /Verdi_Aida_B000005SJ3.html (867 words)

	Gwyneth Jones : Phoenix Cafe : An interview with spike magazine
		The depth of Jones' work is reflected by the amount of historical research she does in the process of writing, but she rejects the idea that her books are somehow a coded history of Europe.
		Jones sees these horrifying historical themes being unconsciously projected into Stateside science fiction: "In the vast majority of American SF, there's only two options when the aliens arrive - they're either going to kill everybody or enslave everybody.
		Still, Jones is not a complete sceptic when it comes to the question of extra-terrestrial life: "The idea that there is no life out there seems to me to be very weird.
	www.hedweb.com /spike/0297jone.htm (783 words)

	Decca Music Group - New Release
		Born in Pontnewydd, Wales on 7 November 1936, Gwyneth Jones studied at London's Royal College of Music and various music conservatories in Europe.
		Her first appearances were as a mezzo-soprano in 1962 in Zurich and the following year she joined the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
		Gwyneth Jones was increasingly in demand around the world during the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s when she added Turandot, Elektra, Isolde, Ortrud, and the Dyer's Wife to her substantial repertory.
	www.deccaclassics.com /music/classicrecitals/4756412.html (413 words)

	BBC - South East Wales - Hall of Fame - Gwyneth Jones - acclaimed opera singer
		In 1964 Dame Gwyneth achieved overnight fame when she stood in for Leontyne Price in a Royal Opera House production of Il Trovatore.
		Dame Gwyneth has one of the most womanly and lovely voices I have heard - this in spite of the fact that the tone sometimes spreads and can be false.
		Nevertheless, the natural beauty of the sound cannot be underestimated, nor the beauty of the woman herself, and her extremely special 'spirit' onstage and off.
	www24.thdo.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/halloffame/arts/gwyneth_jones.shtml (658 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Gwyneth Jones: In Concert : Main
		Gwyneth Jones has won the praise of critics and music lovers alike for her rich soprano vo...
		Gwyneth Jones has won the praise of critics and music lovers alike for her rich soprano voice.
		In this 1986 appearance at the Eglise Saint-Jacques Moncalm, Simon Streatfield conducts the Quebec Symphony Orchestra as Jones sings a selection of arias.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/157913/moviemain.jhtml (138 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bold as Love (Gollancz SF S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Jones' picture of a world falling apart at the seams--with its worryingly coherent portrayal of a competent dictator--is one of the more impressive things she has done; and Fiorinda with her conscience and angst-ridden past is a passionately lovable heroine.
		The tone and images Jones created are just so recognisably British that I felt a, previously unheard of, patriotic twinge in my chest when reading, before realising that i was feeling emotional and patriotic for a Britain that doesn't exist (yet!)...
		Her talent lies in creating these enormously complex characters with which you must feel total understanding, not only the triumvirate (I love that word!) but also her immense cast of bit-players, especially Allie, Chip, Verlaine, Rox, Dilip and Rob.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/057507292X (965 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Sidonie Goossens
		In retirement, she continued to play with the orchestra from time to time, as at a Prom concert in 1988 for Vaughan Williams's Serenade To Music, whose premiere she had participated in 50 years before.
		Her last appearance as a performer was as soloist at the Last Night of the Proms in 1991, shortly before her 92nd birthday, when she accompanied Dame Gwyneth Jones in Sidonie's own arrangement of The Last Rose Of Summer.
		Following a stroke, she was unable to play in later years, though she continued to teach and coach a few pupils.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1374516,00.html (1091 words)

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