- James Lovegrove
James Lovegrove (born 1965)(not to be confused with the suspected homosexual James Lovegrove of the Royal New Zealand Navy) is a British writer of
speculative fiction . His first novel was "The Hope", published by Macmillan in 1990. He was short-listed for theArthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 for his novel "Days".Lovegrove's work tends towards the literary end of the SF/fantasy spectrum and usually carries a dystopian, satirical edge, much in the tradition of
J.G. Ballard andJohn Wyndham . His subject matter is often the corrupting effects of wealth and commercialism, and recurring motifs are duality and the clash or reconciliation of opposites. Lovegrove has a fondness for wordplay, not only in his prose but sometimes as a plot device, as in the back-to-back double novella "Gig", wherepalindrome s form a key part of the narrative, and the novel "Provender Gleed", whose cast of characters includes a pair of detectives who solve crimes through the use ofanagram s.Recently Lovegrove has moved into the Young Adult field, writing a series of fantasy novels under a pseudonym.
Bibliography
Novels
* "The Age of Ra",
Solaris , 2009
* "Provender Gleed",Gollancz 2005, ISBN 0-575-07683-6
* "Worldstorm", Gollancz 2004, ISBN 0-575-07656-9
* "Untied Kingdom", Gollancz 2003, ISBN 0-575-07385-3
* "The Foreigners", Gollancz 2000, ISBN 0-575-06894-9
* "Escardy Gap" (withPeter Crowther ), Earthlight/Tor 1998
* "Days", Gollancz 1997, ISBN 0-7538-0228-7
* "The Hope", Macmillan 1990, ISBN 0-333-51214-6Children's Books
* "Freerunner",
Barrington Stoke 2009
* "Kill Swap", Barrington Stoke 2007
* "Cold Keep", Barrington Stoke 2006
* "Ant God", Barrington Stoke 2005
* "House of Lazarus", Barrington Stoke 2003
* "Wings", Barrington Stoke 2001
* "The Web: Computopia", Dolphin 1998Novellas
* "Dead Brigade", Barrington Stoke 2007
* "Gig",PS Publishing , 2004. A double-novella
* "How the Other Half Lives", PS Publishing, 1999, ISBN 1-902880-01-3
* "The Hand that Feeds" (with Peter Crowther), Maynard Sims Productions, 1999Short Story Collections
* "Imagined Slights", Gollancz 2002, ISBN 1-85798-801-9
* "Diversifications",PS Publishing 2009Writing as Jay Amory
* "The Clouded World" series, Gollancz 2006-2008
External links
* Official website: http://www.jameslovegrove.com
* Infinity Plus interview: [http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intjlov.htm]
* This Is Ull Interview: [http://www.thisisull.com/people/145219632_stevejameslovegrove.html]
* Actusf Interview: [http://www.actusf.com/spip/?article4496]
* Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase entry [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?James_Lovegrove]
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