Life by Gwyneth Jones (@AnnHalam) is in The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle!
Life by Gwyneth Jones is in The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle!
Life by Gwyneth Jones is a
richly textured fictional biography of the brilliant Anna Senoz, a scientist
who makes a momentous discovery about the X and Y chromosomes. Anna’s discovery
provokes widespread sexual rage and cruelly impacts her career, her marriage,
and her child. Ultimately, Anna faces a challenge that the practice of science
alone cannot meet.
Gwyneth Jones, born in Manchester UK, 14th February 1952, is the author of many
novels for teenagers, fantasy, horror and thrillers, using the name Ann Halam, and several highly regarded
SF and fantasy novels for adults. Her critical essays and reviews are collected
in Deconstructing The Starships,
1999 and Imagination/Space 2009.
Among other honours she's won two World
Fantasy awards, the Children of the
Night award, the Philip K Dick award,
the BSFA award and the Pilgrim award for Science Fiction criticism.
Several of her novels have been nominated for the Arthur C Clarke award, the latest being Spirit, 2009; she won the award for Bold As Love in 2002. She lives in Brighton, UK, with her husband
and son, some goldfish and two cats called Ginger and Milo; likes old movies,
practices yoga & has done some extreme tourism in her time. Hobbies include
gardening, cooking, staring out of the window, and playing zelda.
Follow her on Twitter and check out her website.
So
there you have it, my friends. The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle includes
Aestival Tide by Elizabeth Hand
(PKD Finalist), Life by Gwyneth
Jones (PKD Winner), The Cipher by
Kathe Koja (PKD Finalist), Points of Departure by Pat Murphy (PKD Winner), Dark Seeker by K. W. Jeter (PKD Finalist), Summer of Love by Lisa Mason (PKD Finalist), Frontera
by Lewis Shiner (PKD Finalist), Acts
of Conscience by William Barton (PKD
Special Citation), Maximum Ice by
Kay Kenyon (PKD Finalist), Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams (PKD Finalist), and Reclamation by Sarah Zettel
(PKD Finalist).
The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle runs only until October 15. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Download yours today at http://storybundle.com/pkdaward
and enjoy world-class, award-winning
reading right now and into the holidays.
And for more kick-ass sci-fi, check out my novel EYE CANDY. It's a sweet, romantic, daring adventure with an ensemble of characters you'll love. And follow me on Instagram for daily writing inspiration and sneak peeks of my work.
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