Bold As Love, Gwyneth Jones
Bold As Love, Gwyneth Jones
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Bold As Love

Author: Gwyneth Jones

Narrator: Mel Hudson

Unabridged: 12 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 11/12/2020


Synopsis

"Gwyneth Jones is the finest British science fiction writer of her generation" - Bruce Sterling

"One of Britain's most brilliant sci-fi writers" - GUARDIAN

"A tour de force of faith, politics, technology, magic, humanity and England as it's never before been seen" - Amazon Reviewer

It's Dissolution Summer. The anti-globalisation movement threatens stability throughout Europe, supported by rioting youth, bitterly disaffected voters, and encroaching environmental doom. Looking for any opportunity to cling to power, a Countercultural Think Tank tries to help the UK government look cool.

For three rockers - Ax Preston, soft-spoken biracial guitar virtuoso; Sage Pender, techno-wizard-king of the indie scene; and Fiorinda Slater, baby punk-diva with a horrendous past - the world will never be the same. Will rock-and-roll's revolutionary promise finally deliver, or will violence drown hippie idealism in rivers of blood?

About Gwyneth Jones

Gwyneth Jones lives in Brighton with her husband and son. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for BOLD AS LOVE; 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.She has also won the Pilgrim Award, for lifetime achievement in SF scholarship; the BSFA Short Fiction Award, for 'La Cenerentola'; and, as Ann Halam, the Children of the Night Award from the Dracula Society, for The Fear Man.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bruce

Generally I am only adding books as I read them, but I thought I would throw this in there, because it is unlikely that anyone will find it without being told to go look for it... OK, so in the mid eighties when I discovered Gene Wolfe (the shadow of the torturer series, etc.) I was totally blown awa......more

Goodreads review by Rob

(7/10) This book was published in 2001, but it seems like a relic of the 60s and 70s, taking seriously the idea that rock and roll can change the world. That's not a bad thing, just kind of odd. Bold as Love rests on the improbable idea of a bunch of counterculture rockers taking over the government......more