Castles Made Of Sand (Shortlisted For The British Science Fi

Description: 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.

Author Biography: Gwyneth Jones lives in Brighton with her husband and son. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for BOLD AS LOVE, the first book in this sequence; CASTLES MADE OF SAND was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award. She is the previous winner of the James Tiptree Memorial Award and two World Fantasy Awards; four of her previous books have been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Short-listed for the British Science Fiction Award.


Gwyneth Jones is an award-winning writer: BOLD AS LOVE, the first book in the sequence, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award (the fifth time she had been nominated for Britain's most prestigious SF award) and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. CASTLES MADE OF SAND was short-listed for the British Science Fiction Award. 'CASTLES MADE OF SAND manages to be both a worthy successor to BOLD AS LOVE and an even better book' Jon Courteney Grimwood "Gwyneth Jones is the finest British science fiction writer of her generation" Bruce Sterling "One of Britain's most brilliant SF writers" GUARDIAN "Gwyneth Jones is one of the finest and most important sf writers of the past decade, a writer who has altered the shape of science fiction" FOUNDATION 'Never has the nature of Englishness been sweeter, or more bitter' Jon Courtney Grimwood, GUARDIAN Beautiful frontispiece by acclaimed artist Bryan Talbot Special Website dedicated to the BOLD AS LOVE series: www.boldaslove.co.uk