![]() ![]() Set in a Ruined Earth Inland, which is governed on deep- Ecology lines by women, the Zanne series – comprising The Daymaker ( 1987), Transformations ( 1988) and The Skybreaker ( 1990), all as by Halam – is framed bracingly as sf, though the elements of magic in the tale seem at times distortive. King Death's Garden: A Ghost Story ( 1986), as by Halam, is a darkly subtle, smoothly stark tale set in Brighton, where Jones lives (though no longer in the house by the cemetery which inspired the story). (1952- ) UK author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Felicia" (in Junior Winter's Tales, anth 1975, ed M R Hopkins), and who became widely known in the 1980s after she began to publish adult novels over the reach of her career, however, most of her books have been juveniles, beginning with Water in the Air ( 1977), a fantasy from Dear Hill ( 1980), she has written sf and fantasy almost exclusively and from 1981 – with Ally, Ally, Aster ( 1981) as by Ann Halam and The Alder Tree ( 1982) as by Ann Halam, which exploit Norse and Gothic material – she has released almost all her Young Adult novels as by Ann Halam. ![]()
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