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Jon Courtenay GrimwoodJon Courtenay Grimwood is a British science fiction author. He was born in Malta, grew up in Britain, Southeast Asia and Norway in the 1960s. He studied at Kingston College, then worked in publishing and as a freelance writer for magazines and newspapers including The Guardian. He now lives in Winchester and is married to the journalist and novelist Sam Baker, with a son, Jamie, from a previous marriage. Much of his work can be described as shocking cyberpunk. He won a British Science Fiction Association award for Felaheen in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award for Pashazade, the year before. His fourth book is loosely based on Stanley Weyman's Victorian novel Under the Red Robe (ISBN 5552051289). Grimwood's work tends to be of a quasi-alternate history genre that could be dubbed "alternate future"; whilst set in an alternate universe, they are still set in the future. In the first four novels, set in the 22nd century, the point of divergence is the Franco–Prussian War of 1870, where Grimwood posits a reality where Napolon III's France defeats Otto von Bismarck's Prussia, causing the German Empire never to form and the Second French Empire never to collapse. In the Arabesk trilogy, the point of divergence is in 1915, with Woodrow Wilson brokering an earlier peace so that World War I barely expanded outside of the Balkans; the books are set in a liberal Islamic Ottoman North Africa in the 21st century, mainly centering around Alexandria. By contrast, there is little in Stamping Butterflies to suggest that it's not set in our reality. Grimwood also tends to write about characters with a somewhat unusual form of (often artificial) inner monologue. The lead character of the Arabesk trilogy has an internal AI generally referred to as "The Fox", which, to some extent, acts as a pseudo-conscience. In Stamping Butterflies, as well as some of the protagonists having a mental link (across several centuries), one of the protagonists has conversations with an alien AI, known as "The Library". Novels - neoAddix (1997) ISBN 0340674725
- Lucifer's Dragon (1998) ISBN 0743478274
- reMix (1999) ISBN 0671022229
- redRobe (2000) ISBN 0671022601
- Stamping Butterflies (2004) ISBN 0575076135
External link Grimwood, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Jon Courtenay
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