Jane Gaskell is a British fantasy writer. Gaskell was born in 1941. She wrote her first novel Strange Evil, when she was 14. It was published two years later. In 1970 she received the Somerset Maugham Award

Somerset Maugham Award

The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. It is awarded to whom they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a book published in the past year. The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus...

 for her novel A Sweet Sweet Summer (jointly with Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read, FRSL is a British novelist and non-fiction writer.-Background:Read was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire...

 who received it for his Monk Dawson

Monk Dawson (novel)

Monk Dawson, is a novel by English author Piers Paul Read, published in 1969 by Secker and Warburg in the UK and in 1970 by Lippincott in the US, the year it won both the Somerset Maugham Award and Hawthornden Prize. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1998...

.) She later became a professional astrologer.

Her Atlan saga is set in prehistoric South America and in the mythical world of Atlantis

Atlantis

Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....

. 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.

China Miéville

China Miéville

China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...

 lists Strange Evil as one of the top 10 examples of weird fiction. John Clute

John Clute

John Frederick Clute is a Canadian born author and critic who has lived in Britain since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history."...

 called it "an astonishingly imaginative piece of fantasy by any standards."

Standalone novels

• Strange Evil (1957) (ISBN 0090014308 or ISBN 9780090014309)
• King's Daughter (1958) (ISBN 0090016807 or ISBN 9780090016808)
• The Shiny Narrow Grin (1964)
• All Neat in Black Stockings
  All Neat in Black Stockings
  All Neat in Black Stockings is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Christopher Morahan and starring Victor Henry, Susan George and Jack Shepherd. It is based on a novel by Jane Gaskell...
  
  (1968) (ISBN 0722137842 or ISBN 9780722137840)
• Attic Summer (1969) (ISBN 0722137788 or ISBN 9780722137789)
• A Sweet, Sweet Summer (1969) (ISBN 9780340110003)
• Summer Coming (1972) (ISBN 0704310996 or ISBN 9780704310995)
• Sun Bubble (1990) (ISBN 0297797190 or ISBN 9780297797197)

The Atlan Saga

• The Serpent
  The Serpent (novel)
  The Serpent is a novel by Jane Gaskell. It was first published in 1963. It is the first part of the Atlan series, a set of four fantasy novels set in prehistoric times...
  
  (1963)
• The Dragon (the 2nd half of 'The Serpent' in later editions - 1975)
• Atlan (1965)
• The City (1966)
• Some Summer Lands (1977)

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