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Castles Made of Sand (Gollancz S.F.) Paperback – 20 Jun. 2002

by Gwyneth Jones (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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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 getting stranger. 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, secret master of powers that are very old and very new, 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.
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  1. Print length
    368 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Gollancz
  4. Publication date
    20 Jun. 2002
  5. Dimensions
    15.3 x 2.9 x 23.3 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0575070331
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0575070332
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Gwyneth won the Arthur C Clarke award this year for Bold As Love, this novelis the next in this excellent series. These are not ordinary fantasy novels,there appeal reaches way beyond. Festival/Conventions:Gwyneth has made appearances at the Writing on the Wall event for radical writers in Liverpool. Is guest of honour at Readercon and will be appearing at Fantasycon. Interviews:Major interview in the Manchester Evening News - the day before the Glastonbury Festival. Profile and short interview in DREAMWATCH Short piece in STARBURST relating to Arthur C. Clarke award and mentioning Castles Made of Sand. Signings/Events: Signings at Forbidden Planet with Bryan Talbot.Signing at Waterstone's Manchester with Alastair Reynolds.Signing and talk at Hammicks Redill. Sales lunch with seven other major authors. Reviews: 'Her first novel was excellent - this is even better.'THE GUARDIAN 'Further proof that it's possible to do something triumphantly new with the fantasy genre.'DREAMWATCH 'Castles Made of Sand quickly establishes itself among her best work.'STARLOG 'Gripp

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Gwyneth Jones lives in Brighton with her husband and son. She has won the James Tiptree Memorial Award and two World Fantasy Awards and been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gollancz
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 20 Jun. 2002
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0575070331
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0575070332
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 565 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.3 x 2.9 x 23.3 cm
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    4.3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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Gwyneth Jones grew up in Manchester UK and lives in Sussex. Among other honours she's won the James Tiptree award, two World Fantasy awards, the Children of the Night award, the Philip K Dick award, the BSFA award, the Pilgrim award for Science Fiction criticism, and the Arthur C Clarke award; for Bold As Love, first episode of a techno-green Utopian "near future fantasy" series. She's a volunteer for Amnesty International, a member of the Soil Association, keeps a blog and lives in Brighton. Hobbies include playing fantasy games and staring out of the window.

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  • sfbuff
    5.0 out of 5 stars Like all of the 'Bold as Love' sequence
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2014
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    Like all of the 'Bold as Love' sequence: an impressively well written novel which encompasses and synthesises our underlying current societial issues in the UK should society as we know it fall apart while also acknowledging the implications of globalisation, clmate change and post peak oil transition, cultural power shifts and possible technological developments. All of which might be boring except there are characters you can care about, the return of magic and the attempt to protect the populaton from it, a compelling narrative and a gritty realism you can cut your teeth on. This is a believable world and possibly the best description of how an alternative society in Britain may come about, complete with a clear eyed vison of the down side and what it may involve for the excluded of the new order.
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  • George Stuart
    5.0 out of 5 stars It gets better
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 July 2002
    Format: Paperback
    I thought that Bold As Love was the best book I read last year and I couldn't wait to read Castles Made Of Sand. The wait was worth it.
    Gwyneth Jones brings together plot elements from Bold as Love and moves them towards a classic fantasy climax. More than this the 3 main characters Ax, Fiorinda and Sage get to develop further as powerful but human (and hence fallible) characters. The trials and travails of a menage a trois are explored in a way that is real, sexy and thought provoking.
    And, of course, the bad guy gets it (or does he?).
    I cannot recoomend this book highly enough.
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