Imagination/Space by Gwyneth Jones

[randy_byers]

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[bibliofile]

THanks for posting about this book. I'd forgotten that G Jones had two books of nonfiction, not just one.

I read her Bold as Love and IIRC three of the books that followed. Enjoyed them, but with the rock & roll and the politics and manner of dystopia (and, probably, British setting) all are specific soft spots for me. With some polyamory too.

I read extra Joan Sloncewski books when she was WisCon GoH a couple of years ago, and they're all good. She was a very enthusiastic and participatory GoH, too.

[randy_byers]

Thanks! I did find the political aspect of Bold as Love interesting for how it foreshadowed the Brexit, but I still had a hard time following the factions and their agendas. Sloncewski is a lot easier to follow in my chemo-addled state and a lot more fun, which of course says nothing about ultimate quality.

Have you read Jones' Life or Spirit?

[bibliofile]

Yes, I've read Life. It's good! Very near future, science and ethics issues.

I own an ARC of Spirit (never released in the US), but I haven't read it yet. It's in a box, somewhere in storage.

I know that addled brains can make reading harder. At one point, I could not read a book that had eight characters that were eight different kinds of alien -- each with odd names. Too hard! Hmm, we're probably both same from War and Peace at the moment.