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Jon Courtenay Grimwood Stamping Butterflies Reviewed by Rick Kleffel Grimwood's gritty and detailed prose evokes the sounds the smells, the sights and the emotions of those who live there. Grimwood's concept of what a novel can do and how it should go about doing it is quite complex, and his execution is flawless. Grimwood is a formidably skilled writer, and he rewards a skilled reader. trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2004/grimwood-stamping.htm   (940 words)

Jon Courtenay Grimwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the bestselling and highly-praised redRobe, begins a new series which is the SF equivalent of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, with the free city of EL Iskandryia as much a character as any human. Praise For Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s redRobe and remix Jon Courtenay Grimwood was born into a naval family and christened in the upturned bell of his uncle’s destroyer in Malta. www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/joncourtenaygrimwood.html   (2409 words)

Article: Interview: Jon Courtenay Grimwood, by Cheryl Morgan on Courtenay Grimwood is one of the hottest of the new breed of British SF writers. JCG: Yes, and at least one friend of mine has pointed out this may not be the best time to have novels out with Arabic lettering all over their covers. JCG: The first third of Effendi is the last third of Pashazade seen from a different angle and through a different character's eyes, because I wanted to subvert what Raf took for granted. www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020812/grimwood.shtml   (4656 words)

Phoenix Convention (P-Con): Guest Profile : Jon Courtenay Grimwood Jon Courtenay Grimwood was born in Malta, where he was christened in the upturned bell of his uncle's destroyer, and, as he was brought up in a Service family, grew up variously in Britain, Scandinavia and all over the Far East. When he is not writing books, he acts as the Guardian’s science fiction reviewer and writes for a number of other newspapers and magazines. These are not Jon's only forays into writing, however, as he also wrote the best-selling Thatcher Bedside Book, as well as its follow-ups, The Royal Bedside Book and The Election Bedside Book, which managed to sell well over 200,000 copies between them. www.slovobooks.com /phoenix/phoenix_2003/guest_profile_grimwood.html   (260 words)

Stamping Butterflies by Jon Courtenay Grimwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Grimwood does it by spinning a multiple perspective tale with cyberpunk sensibilities, at times poetic, and at times prone to narrative vertigo. In short chapters, Grimwood, whose notable Arabesk crime thriller/alternate history trilogy was set in a world where the Ottoman Empire never fell, cycles us here through the far flung twists of the plot. From there Grimwood takes us to a simulacrum of our present day political imbroglio to meet President Gene Newman, head of a United States still evidently in a headlong flight into the Middle East fires, while at the same time engaged in brinkmanship with China over human rights. www.scifidimensions.com /Jan05/stamping.htm   (603 words)

Jon Courtenay Grimwood 9Tail Fox Reviewed by Rick Kleffel Grimwood's previous novels have all been densely imagined science fiction with blends of mystery, alternate history and literary fiction, pretty much unidentifiable hybrids. By and large, Grimwood has written a straight-ahead, gritty police procedural, and by all calculations, one might suspect that Grimwood's prose would somehow reflect this change. One of Grimwood's talents is his ability to create likable, flawed characters that remain in your memory long after you finish the novel. trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2005/grimwood-9tail_fox.htm   (1110 words)

Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Interviews | SCI FI Weekly Grimwood: The four books in the Claire Fabio sequence split off from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, which in my novels is won by the French, meaning the German empire is never born and the third Napoleonic empire never falls. Grimwood: Stamping Butterflies is a novel about the birth of punk, the outsourcing of torture and an empire on the other edge of the galaxy. Grimwood: With the Ashraf Bey novels I bought a modern map of Alexandria and an historical map and changed most of the streets back to their old names and then reintroduced some of the old buildings and made changes to public squares and gardens to reflect changes in history. www.scifi.com /sfw/interviews/sfw2757.html   (3383 words)

Jon Courtenay Grimwood interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction JCG: Well, in the first draft it was a love story between an English guy who ran a biker bar in Tokyo and a girl from the end of the world. JCG: Without wishing to be rude, most publishers would love to publish the same book repeatedly, with a slightly different cover and perhaps a slight change of location. Jon Courtenay Grimwood also spoke to Claire Weaver at NewCon 3 about San Franciscan police, Chinese mythology and whether he would survive in his own novels. www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/intjcg.htm   (2432 words)

Jon Courtenay Grimwood Interview Jon Courtenay Grimwood belongs to the special group of SFF novelists who write compelling Science Fiction that keeps the reader's interest without employing the short cuts of cliché, formulae or fantasy. Jon Courtenay Grimwood: I was born in Malta and grew up in the UK, Malta again, the Far East and Scandinavia. JCG: What we see in the Ashraf Bey novels is a mid-21st century North Africa where peace between London and Berlin was brokered in 1915 by the American President and World War One remained the third Balkan conflict... www.sfcrowsnest.com /sfnews2/03_aug/news0803_5.shtml   (2973 words)

Jon Courtenay Grimwood on Courtenay Grimwood is an author and freelance journalist who is fast becoming one of the rising stars in UK SF. JCG: I have a problem with this question because cyberpunk is dead, and I get endless requests to write features or turn up as a talking head on something about cyberpunk. JCG: Well, a pashazade is the son of a pasha — which is roughly the equivalent to a fairly junior duke. www.cold-print.freeserve.co.uk /jcg.htm   (1738 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Felaheen (Arabesk): Books: Jon Courtenay Grimwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Raf - or Grimwood - uses others as crowbars to pry the story into existence, and just like great detective novels, we are treated to an explaination near the end. As the potential son of the Emir of Tunis, Bey is unwillingly drawn from the claustrophobic streets and souks of El Iskandryia to the more open spaces of Ifriqikas deserts and palaces by an unusual assassination attempt on his putative father. Jon Courtney Grimwood's North African cyberpunk noir detective series comes to a triumphant conclusion with "Felaheen", in which the truth of Ashraf Bey's origins are revealed, or at least hinted at. www.amazon.co.uk /Felaheen-Arabesk-Jon-Courtenay-Grimwood/dp/0671773704   (1412 words)

Amazon.de: Felaheen: The Third Arabesk: English Books: Jon Courtenay Grimwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) In the Arabesk universe, where the Ottoman Empire still exists, twisted political intrigues and tensions serve as a challenging backdrop to the gritty investigations of Ashraf Bey, a genetically altered sleuth who may be related to the royal family. But JCG does such a masterpiece of describing the fears and at the same time the ingenuity of an eleven year old that it makes you weep at times. Grimwood waits until the very last pages to finally give you the (again that word) wicked conclusion. www.amazon.de /Felaheen-Arabesk-Jon-Courtenay-Grimwood/dp/0553383787   (699 words)

[Stumblings in the dark] » Grimwood, Jon Courtenay - Felaheen Jon Courtenay Grimwood does a good job of qualifying as a sort of British William Gibson. Grimwood is a genius at page-turning plotting, and at the same time his worlds are remarkably well-drawn. Grimwood makes great use of italicised flashback segments in each novel, and the revelations in that parallel plot are essential to the main narrative. www.frogworth.com /blog/archives/2003/05/29/grimwood-jon-courtenay-ifelaheeni   (726 words)

Pashazad by Jon Courtenay Grimwood Pashazade, the first book in Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s Arabesk trilogy, is just interesting enough to do the trick. Grimwood is determined to keep the reader guessing. The first is Grimwood’s inclusion of interesting female characters – characters who are all the more interesting because of the story’s conservative Muslim setting (indeed, the child would just be irritating if it weren’t for the cultural context). www.scifidimensions.com /Apr05/pashazade.htm   (503 words)

Amazon.com: Pashazade: Books: Jon Courtenay Grimwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Grimwood artfully unveils the changed world that has developed in the many decades since WWI ended differently. Grimwood's story is a fairly off-the-rack "reluctant hero" tale about Ashraf, a small time hoodlum unexpectedly sprung from jail in the U.S. and brought to Alexandria/Iskandriya by an aunt he didn't know he had. And Grimwood can turn a phrase, too - there are a lot of subtle gems of prose, nothing too garish for someone who does *not* like an obtrusive or mannered style. www.amazon.com /Pashazade-Jon-Courtenay-Grimwood/dp/0553587439   (2791 words)

Fictionwise eBooks: Jon Courtenay Grimwood Part mystery, part speculative fiction, and wholly unforgettable, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's celebrated Arabesk series portrays the dark, hard-boiled story of a man out to prove his innocence in an alternate world where the facts aren't always the same as the truth... Set in a 21st-century Ottoman Empire, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's acclaimed Arabesk series is a noir action-thriller with an exotic twist. A mystery, a thriller, and a cutting-edge sci-fi adventure all in one, Stamping Butterflies bends time, genre, and consciousness itself to tell the spellbinding story of two worlds, three lives, one future--and the question upon which everything depends: who is dreaming whom.... www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/JonCourtenayGrimwoodeBooks.htm   (376 words)

Amazon.com: Remix: Books: Jon Courtenay Grimwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) This is not Gibson remixed (no pun), this is Grimwood, and stands very much alone and of itself. Grimwood's writing has the same sort of manic energy that made Gibson's 'Sprawl Trilogy' such a treat, but (in my honest and humble opinion), Grimwood is a much better story teller. The future, as seen by Grimwood, is fast, deadly, and technology has pretty-much gone berserk. www.amazon.com /Remix-Jon-Courtenay-Grimwood/dp/0743224132   (922 words)

» Book Review: ‘reMix’ by Jon Courtenay Grimwood » Velcro City Tourist Board » Blog ... But there are a lot of other factions who want to get their hands on her for various reasons, all of whom collide and entangle in LizAlec’s wake as she flees headlong from those who would return her to Paris and her mother. reMix is the third of four novels from Grimwood’s early body of cyber-splatter work, standing in marked contrast to his more recent novels, which are notably more grounded in baseline reality - to the extent of hardly being science fiction at all. Here, Grimwood wears his cyberpunk influences on his sleeve, openly acknowledging his antecedents. www.velcro-city.co.uk /book-review-remix-by-jon-courtenay-grimwood   (859 words)

Locus Online: Jon Courtenay Grimwood interview excerpts Jon Courtenay Grimwood grew up in Britain, the Far East, and Norway. Grimwood’s first SF books were cyberpunk/vampire novels neoAddix (1997) and its sequel, Lucifer’s Dragon (1998), followed by related novels reMix (1999) and redRobe (2000). Grimwood lives in Winchester, south of London, with his family. www.locusmag.com /2003/Issue12/Grimwood.html   (771 words)

This Writing Life: Jon Courtenay Grimwood Jon has a new blog over here, and I'm sure he'll be a worthy edition to the blogosphere. Until recently, Jon had a column in the UK's Guardian Review, where he was, unusually, quite happy to review new fiction. For example, he wrote a flattering review of some jumped-up POD, Cornish author when he could have been reading the latest skiffy blockbusters. ianhocking.com /2006/09/jon-courtenay-grimwood.html   (336 words)

Bantam Dell Publishing Group: Stamping Butterflies by Jon Courtenay Grimwood From acclaimed author Jon Courtenay Grimwood comes an exotic new novel that defies expectation at every turn. A mystery, a thriller, and a cutting-edge sci-fi adventure all in one, Stamping Butterflies bends time, genre, and consciousness itself to tell the spellbinding story of two worlds, three lives, one future–and the question upon which everything depends: who is dreaming whom.... Jon Courtenay Grimwood is British SF's best kept secret. www.randomhouse.com /bantamdell/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553383775   (217 words)

Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Felaheen: The Third Arabesk. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Web Site Throughout the three books, Grimwood does not let up, there not being a moment of downtime, no sections of padding. But the question of who he really is still nags as sharp as a broken tooth and that answer lies in the city of Tunis, with a man whoi might just be his father. With the bleak, noir atmospehre of Raymond Chandler, the living, breathing background of the Alexandria Quartet and a unique charismatic detective who is 100% Jon Courtenay Grimwood, this is page turning fiction at it's best. www.eternalnight.co.uk /books/g/grimwoodjoncourtenay/felaheen.html   (516 words)

The SF Site: An Interview with Jon Courtenay Grimwood Jon Courtenay Grimwood was born in Malta, and grew up in Malta, England, the Far East and Norway. and Grimwood repeats the sequence of blows in the air, laughing. Given that he invests so much time in the background of his story it's no surprise to find that Grimwood also puts a lot of thought into the plot and characters. www.sfsite.com /12b/sajcg214.htm   (723 words)

[No title] RSS feed for Jon Courtenay Grimwood (what is this? Marrakech is brought to vivid life, along with its inhabitants. Grimwood has produced, imago-like, an inspiring butterfly of humanity and hope from a hard shell of despair." www.orionbooks.co.uk /11401-0/author-Jon-Courtenay-Grimwood.htm   (85 words)

Dragon/kolibri: 9Tail Fox by Jon Courtenay Grimwood Bobby sets out to investigate who killed him and why, and learns a lot more that in the process. I've not read any other Grimwood's books before although we have some on the self - but I would definitely consider them after this. I can definitely recommend 'Pashazade', 'Effendi' and 'Felaheen' by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. www.dejahthoris.net /blog/archives/2006/04/9tail_fox_by_jon_courtenay_grimwood.html   (236 words)

Locus Online: Jon Courtenay Grimwood excerpt No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Click here to visit Bantam Spectra, home of Jon Courtenay Grimwood and many other great fantasy and SF authors. You can also sign-up for the Spectra Pulse e-newsletter to receive exclusive previews, interviews and author essays from legends and new voices of SF&F. © 2006 by Locus Publications. www.locusmag.com /2006/Features/CourtenayGrimwood_Excerpt.html   (1280 words)

Jon Courtenay Grimwood - an infinity plus profile Jon Courtenay Grimwood - an infinity plus profile I'm a freelance journalist and single father (the kid lives with me in North London). © Jon Courtenay Grimwood 17 January 1998, udpated August 2006 www.infinityplus.co.uk /misc/jcg.htm   (289 words)

SFX And one of the items auctioned off was the chance for the winning bidder to have a character in Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s next novel based on them! In the event, two people both bid £9500 for this honour: one the finance director of a fashion group; the other the CEO of an Icelandic-owned bank (ah, so now we know why they’ve got money to burn!). So for his next novel, Grimwood will be creating characters with their names, physical descriptions and characteristics! www.sfx.co.uk /page/sfx?entry=jon_courtney_grimwood_characters_auctioned   (267 words)

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