Jon Courtenay Grimwood's most recent book is Effendi.Sitting somewhere on the borders of dark fantasy, literary fiction and SF, Castles Made of Sand manages to be both a worthy successor to Bold as Love and an even better book. Now theyve to find some resolution to the impossible dynamics of their own relationship, while the world keeps getting stranger. Jones melds modern and ancient: computer technology meets dark age religion. 4 reviews Ax Preston, Sage Pender and Fiorinda have beaten the cascade of disasters that followed the collapse of the former UK.Central to the narrative is Fiorinda's continuing fear of her father, the reluctance of Ax to become Dux, and Sage's quest for a state of narcotic zen wisdom in which everything simultaneously just is. This is a retelling of the Arthurian myth in which Arthur is in love with Lancelot and Guinevere is in love with both her king and his champion, who are equally in love with her. A computer virus has resulted in Europe being isolated and contained. Following Dissolution Summer, the Scots and the Welsh have gone their own way, as has Ulster, now contained within a federated Ireland. Somehow the refusal of rock fans to leave the Reading festival has helped fuel a countercultural revolution led by the Few, represented by our triumvirate.
Accompanying Fiorinda are Ax, a paradigm of everything that is English contained within a postmodern, posthuman, bisexual, half-Sudanese guitarist, and Sage Prender, a bear-like techno-wizard with crippled hands and self-destructive loyalties. These connections are important because the whole book is a web of connections, one that weaves lines of song with fragments of myth, drug lore, magic and politics. Fiorinda, now in her late teens, remains the heroine and driving force of Jones's new novel, Castles Made of Sand, the title of a track taken from that 1967 Hendrix album.
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