James Lovegrove

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James Lovegrove (b. 1965) is a British writer of speculative fiction. His first novel was The Hope, published by Macmillan in 1990. He was short-listed for the Arthur 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 and John 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, where palindromes 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 of anagrams.

Recently Lovegrove has moved into the Young Adult field, writing a series of fantasy novels under a pseudonym.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Novels 1.2 Children's Novels 1.3 Novellas 1.4 Short Story Collections 2 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

• Provender Gleed, Gollancz 2005, ISBN 0-575-07683-6
• Worldstorm, Gollancz 2005, 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 (with Peter Crowther), Earthlight/Tor 1998
• Days, Gollancz 1997, ISBN 0-7538-0228-7
• The Hope, Macmillan 1990, ISBN 0-333-51214-6

[edit] Children's Novels

• 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 1998

[edit] Novellas

• 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, 1999

[edit] Short Story Collections

• Imagined Slights, Gollancz 2002, ISBN 1-85798-801-9
• Diversifications, PS Publishing 2009

[edit] External links

• Official website: http://www.jameslovegrove.com
• Infinity Plus interview: [1]
• This Is Ull Interview: [2]
• Actusf Interview: [3]
• Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase entry [4]