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Jo Walton

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Jo Walton won a Locus Award 2015 for science fiction and fantasy in the non-fiction category with his title What Makes This Book So Great. (Bowker Author Biography)

Inkluderar namnet: Jo Walton

Foto taget av: Jo Walton trying to cheer up a stone lion in Florence.

Serier

Verk av Jo Walton

Among Others (2011) 2,885 exemplar
Farthing (2006) 1,576 exemplar
Tooth and Claw (2003) 1,489 exemplar
The Just City (2015) 1,007 exemplar
My Real Children (2014) 855 exemplar
Ha'penny (2007) 760 exemplar
Half a Crown (2008) 544 exemplar
The King's Peace (2000) 523 exemplar
What Makes This Book So Great (2014) 457 exemplar
The Philosopher Kings (2015) 438 exemplar
The King's Name (2001) 291 exemplar
Lent (2019) 291 exemplar
Or What You Will (2020) 283 exemplar
Lifelode (2009) 282 exemplar
Necessity (2016) 263 exemplar
Starlings (2018) 214 exemplar
The Prize in the Game (2002) 208 exemplar
Sleeper (2014) 24 exemplar
Poor Relations (2018) 24 exemplar
A Burden Shared (2017) 15 exemplar
The Rebirth of Pan (1997) 12 exemplar
The Helix and the Hard Road (2013) 6 exemplar
What Would Sam Spade Do? (2006) 4 exemplar
Sibyls and Spaceships (2009) 4 exemplar
Unreliable Witness 3 exemplar
Parable Lost 3 exemplar
Tradition 2 exemplar
BSFA Awards 2020 (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Muses and Lurkers 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

The Vor Game (1990) — Förord, vissa utgåvor2,652 exemplar
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 258 exemplar
Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 216 exemplar
The Book of Dragons: An Anthology (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 203 exemplar
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 179 exemplar
Year's Best Fantasy 2 (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 167 exemplar
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014 Edition (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 153 exemplar
Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 149 exemplar
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 126 exemplar
Eclipse 4: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 115 exemplar
Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 115 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 94 exemplar
Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 76 exemplar
The Best of Jim Baen's Universe (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 73 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
Glorifying Terrorism, Manufacturing Contempt: An Anthology (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
Letters to Tiptree (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 53 exemplar
80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 37 exemplar
The Stories: Five Years of Original Fiction on tor.com (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 36 exemplar
Uncanny Magazine Issue 18: September/October 2017 (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
The Usual Path to Publication: 27 Stories About 27 Ways In (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
Subterranean Magazine, Issue #4 (Spring 2006) (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
The Moment of Change (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 50 • July 2014 (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Mythic 2 (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 8: Re-Generating WisCon (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Lone Star Stories 13 — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Abbreviated Epics (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Focus 69 (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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Jo Walton's Among Others i Science Fiction Fans (augusti 2012)
Chat about... Among Others by Jo Walton i The SF&F Book Chat (juni 2012)
"Farthing" Group Discussion i Group Reads - Sci-Fi (februari 2009)

Recensioner

En 1949, ocho años después de que el círculo de Farthing negociara la «Paz con Honor» entre Gran Bretaña y la Alemania nazi, Inglaterra ha completado su deriva hacia una dictadura fascista. Cuando el infame Mark Normanby apro-vecha un asesinato político para organizar su elección como primer ministro, las últimas esperanzas para la democracia parecen agotarse.
Entonces explota una bomba en un área residencial de Londres. El inspector Carmichael, de Scotland Yard, un hombre brillante aunque sometido a presiones políticas, se encarga de llevar el caso. Lo que averigua lo lleva hasta una conspiración por parte de nobles y comunistas, de leales adeptos al rey y a la patria y de implacables pistoleros del ira, para asesinar a Normanby y a su nuevo aliado, Adolf Hitler.… (mer)
 
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libreriarofer | 50 andra recensioner | Sep 8, 2023 |
The best part of the book was so nostalgic -- the idea of combing bookstores and finding The Book! The Amazing Fantasy or SciFi book that you've never heard of before, but it's by your favorite author and it is just so perfect! Finding The Book in bookstores and on my friends' book cases was a huge part of my adolescent years. It makes me kind of want to earmark the authors that Walton name checks that I've never read: (Zelazny, Delany, Tiptree embarrassingly enough) and never Amazon or Google them and only hunt down their books in used bookstores to recreate the feeling. But I know that truly that feeling is a little eradicated, because even if I play by the rules, I know that they're arbitrary and in real life I can get whatever book I want whenever I want, which is great, except that it ruins the mystique.

I also liked that "is it real or isn't it?" feel of the book. Reading as a teenager, I never would have questioned that the subtle magic in the book was indeed the highest reality. But I love Walton's depiction of that subtle magic, which as an adult, you can't help but second guess: "maybe Mor is just subconsciously coming up with a narrative to explain why bad thing X happened." I love that the book works on both levels and that it forces you to consider both -- it's such a great way to depict magic.

So what didn't I like? Well, I think my expectations were set too high by Jon and Beka, who both said this book was the most amazing thing in the history of books. Also, while reading the book I had an overwhelming, terribly distracting sense of how much I would have loved this book if I had read it back when I was 18. My 18 year old self would have promptly declared it her favorite book in the history of books, too, but since I'm no longer her, I felt almost guilty reading it.

Ultimately, I just felt like I didn't "get it." So, there's this girl, and some bad magic happened in her past, and now she goes to a boarding school, where she's a little social isolated, but then she joins a book club and along the way she buys a lot of books and sees a lot of faeries, and that's all well and good, but when is the plot going to begin? Oh, the book is over, so I guess there just isn't a plot? And I can handle a lack of a plot if the character growth and development is well done, but after awhile I got bored of reading about Mor read and go to bookstores, and I would rather be reading and going to bookstores myself.
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settingshadow | 241 andra recensioner | Aug 19, 2023 |
Het boek is in dagboekvorm. Dat zorgt bij mij in eerste instantie altijd even voor wat zorg. Niet elke schrijver kan dat op een meeslepende manier doen. Het is echt moeilijk weet ik uit eigen ervaring. Maar Jo Walton kan het. En hoe. Ik kan me dit boek niet in een andere vorm voorstellen.

De vele verwijzingen naar boeken die ik zelf gelezen heb of ooit nog wil lezen, maken dat het me enorm intrigeert. Ook de subtiele verwijzingen naar wat er is gebeurd, maakten me erg benieuwd naar de rest van het verhaal. De karakters zijn wat vlak, maar de hoofdpersoon is wat beter uitgewerkt. Genoeg in ieder geval om met haar mee te leven en om haar te begrijpen. Dat de karakters wat vlak zijn, heeft denk ik ook te maken met de dagboekvorm. Je ziet ze vanuit Mori's ogen en dat op zich voorkomt al een diepgang die je gemakkelijker hebt in een boek dat geschreven is vanuit meerdere gezichtspunten bijvoorbeeld.

Er zitten stukjes maatschappijkritiek in, maar subtieler dan bij "Farthing", als ik het me goed herinner. Al met al een zeer genietbaar boek, dat me niet alleen tijdens het lezen bezighield.
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weaver-of-dreams | 241 andra recensioner | Aug 1, 2023 |

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Verk
53
Även av
32
Medlemmar
12,772
Popularitet
#1,836
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
846
ISBN
180
Språk
10
Favoritmärkt
49
Proberstenar
1,131

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