Authors: Gwyneth Jones
Tags: #Human-Alien Encounters—Fiction, #Reincarnation—Fiction, #Feminist Science Fiction, #Science Fiction, #Gender War--Fiction, #scifi, #sf
North Wind (41 page)
The north wind cut through her clothes. She would die before instantaneous travel was more than a fragile dream. She would go out of this room and shut the door and never return, having known nothing in this life on Earth but war and danger and spreading dissolution. No home, no safety, no permanence. Sid’s body warmed her side. The prospect of dying had never worried her before, why start now? Bella who had been “Goodlooking” took the apple that Sid held out, and bit into it. The juice spurted into her mouth.
Acknowledgments
A short bibliography:
A list of works that went into the writing of
North Wind
would include:
At the Back of the North Wind,
George MacDonald, 1871;
A Tale of Two Cities,
Charles Dickens, Chapman and Hall, London, 1859;
The Way of an Eagle,
Ethel M. Dell, Ernest Benn London Ltd, 1912;
On the Face of the Waters,
Flora Annie Steel, Heinemann, London, 1896;
Kim,
Rudyard Kipling, Macmillan, London 1901;
Lost Horizon,
James Hilton, Macmillan, London 1933;
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos,
Denis Overbye, Macmillan, London, 1991;
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire,
Gerald Edelman, Penguin, London,1992;
The Ape That Spoke,
John McCrone, Macmillan, London 1990;
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian,
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Macmillan, London 1951;
Casino Royale,
Ian Fleming, Jonathon Cape, London, 1953;
Remembrance of Things Past,
Marcel Proust, tr C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Penguin Books. London, 1983;
Black Dog,
Alison de Vere, Lee Stork, Channel 4, 1987;
Wings of Desire,
Wim Wenders, 1987
Quotations:
Sid’s love song at the North West Frontier Trading Post, from the Habanera
L’amour est un oiseau rebelle,
George Bizet’s
Carmen.
Breakfast song at Aditya’s cottage: from
The Ghost,
Walter de la Mare, courtesy the Literary Trustees of Walter De La Mare and the Society of Authors as their representative. Sid’s “Habeas Corpus” quote from the Magna Carta trs Harry Rothwell, MA, PhD. Aditya’s declamation on the battlefield, from
Dover Beach,
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888). Aditya’s death speech from
An Irish Airman Forsees His Death,
W.B. Yeats. Intro to the virtuality Ramayana, from
Ramayana
, C. Rajagopalachari, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay 1978. Clavel’s surrender
(Since there’s no help)
from a sonnet by Michael Drayton 1563-1631. Bella’s mourning from
The Light of Other Days,
Thomas Moore; Sir John Stevenson. Sid at the sarcophagus, from “Rasputin,” Boney M. 1978. Bella’s consolation for Sid
(Call no man happy),
in the Epilogue, from Oedipus at Colonnus, Sophocles. Genesis 22:8; Genesis 8:11; John 4:19-24.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Gwyneth Jones, writer and critic of science fiction and fantasy, is the author of many novels for teenagers, mostly using the name Ann Halam, and several genre novels for adults, often addressing feminist, popular culture, and gender issues. Her critical essays and reviews are collected in
Deconstructing the Starships,
1999, and
Imagination/Space
, 2009. Recent honors include the P. K. Dick award for
Life
, published by Aqueduct Press, and the Pilgrim award for science fiction criticism. She’s done some extreme tourism in her time, and enjoys mountain walking, playing with her websites, and watching old movies. Her latest novel is
Spirit, or The Princess of Bois Dormant
(Gollancz UK). She lives in Brighton UK.
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