Antony Jones
I'm Ant Jones, the current owner of SFBook and one of the team of reviewers. I have a deep love of most genre fiction (with the firm exception of romance and paranormal romance) and some years ago decided to start sharing that enthusiasm with anyone who'd listen, and some who wouldn't. After cutting my teeth on another site, I took over SFBook from its original creator and reviewer, TC, who ran it from 1999 to 2005.
I've been reading for over forty years, so there are plenty of novels I've worked through that aren't yet represented here. Some I hope to revisit and write about properly in time.
My earliest memory of the fantastic is Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree series, either read to me or by me at a very young age. It seized my imagination so completely that I had recurring dreams about that land and its inhabitants for years afterwards. Sometime later, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Alan Garner's debut) reawakened my appetite for stories alongside The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, borrowed from my Gran (who didn't seem to have other books).
Away from SFBook I'm a Senior Tech Lead at Future PLC, leading teams and working on the platforms behind a fair chunk of the company's specialist media. I've also spent years writing freelance for magazines and newspapers, with bylines in the LA Times amongst others. I'm currently finishing writing my first book, A Thirst For Silence, an Upmarket scifi novel that explores immortality, addiction, and the difference between being alone and being unrecognised.
This year I'm serving as a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the UK's longest-running prize for science fiction. It's a privilege, an education, and an enormous amount of reading.
Books reviewed by Ant (850)
