Gawron, Jean Mark
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1953- ) French-born US academic and author, who researches in and teaches computational linguistics; his first sf novel, An Apology for Rain (1974), traces the travels of a woman in search of her brother through a surreal USA. It was followed by Algorithm (1978), in which complex Linguistic operations are used to structure the responses of a sidelined Earth to the greater galaxy, and the more conventionally framed Dream of Glass (1993), in which a young woman, incarcerated into a Cyberspace Prison where she is brain-washed by a Near Future tyranny, escapes with the help of rebels, and gains the attention of a galactic civilization, which may help out. Some exceedingly ambitious sf ideas have tended, in Gawron's work, to fall short of their full affect, through a prose style which can be inattentive to basics. [JC]
Jean Mark Gawron
born Paris: 5 October 1953
works
- An Apology for Rain (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1974) [hb/Margo Herr]
- Algorithm (New York: Berkley Books, 1978) [pb/Paul Alexander]
- Dream of Glass (New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1993) [hb/John Stuart Rosenberg]
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