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Jane Gaskell is a British fantasy writer. Gaskell was born in 1941, in Lancaster, England.〔Sharon Yntema, ''More Than 100: Women Science Fiction Writers'' Crossing Press, 1988. ISBN 0895943018 (pp. 51-52).〕 She wrote her first novel ''Strange Evil'', when she was 14. It was published two years later. John Grant has described ''Strange Evil'' as "a major work of the fantastic imagination", and compared it to George MacDonald's ''Lilith'' and David Lindsay's ''A Voyage to Arcturus''.〔John Grant, "Gaskell, Jane" in ''St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers'', ed. David Pringle, London, St. James Press, 1996, ISBN 1-55862-205-5, (p. 224-6).〕 China Miéville lists ''Strange Evil'' as one of the top 10 examples of weird fiction.〔(China Mieville's weird fiction | Top 10s | guardian.co.uk Books )〕 John Clute called it "an astonishingly imaginative piece of fantasy by any standards."〔"Gaskell, Jane", ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute & John Grant, ed., p.190〕 Gaskell's horror novel ''The Shiny Narrow Grin'' (1964) featured a sympathetic, tormented vampire. ''The Shiny Narrow Grin'' was described by Brian Stableford as one of the first "revisionist vampire novels", whose most successful exemplar was ''Interview with the Vampire'' by Anne Rice.〔Brian Stableford, "The Gothic Lifestyle from Byron to Buffy", in ''Gothic Grotesques: Essays on Fantastic Literature'' Wildside Press,, 2009 ISBN 1434403394 (p.105).〕 ''The Shiny Narrow Grin'' was also listed by horror historian Robert S. Hadji in his list of "unjustedly neglected" horror novels.〔R.S. Hadji, "13 Neglected Masterpieces of the Macabre", in ''Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine'', July–August 1983 . TZ Publications, Inc. (p. 62)()〕 Her ''Atlan'' saga is set in prehistoric South America and in the mythical world of Atlantis. The series is written from the point of view of its clumsy heroine Cija, except for the last book, which is narrated by her daughter Seka.〔John Clute, "Jane Gaskell", in Clute and Peter Nicholls, '' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction''. London : Orbit, 1993. ISBN 1857231244 (p.477).〕 In 1970 she received the Somerset Maugham Award for her novel ''A Sweet Sweet Summer'' (jointly with Piers Paul Read who received it for his ''Monk Dawson.'') ''A Sweet, Sweet Summer'' features aliens visiting a violent future Earth;〔 Baird Searles stated the book makes " ''A Clockwork Orange'' look like ''Winnie the Pooh''".〔 From the 1960s to the 1980s, Gaskell worked as a journalist on the ''Daily Mail''.〔 She later became a professional astrologer.〔 ==Books== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jane Gaskell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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