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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) 2,933 exemplar
Farthing (2006) 1,581 exemplar
Tooth and Claw (2003) 1,512 exemplar
The Just City (2015) 1,032 exemplar
My Real Children (2014) 871 exemplar
Ha'penny (2007) 764 exemplar
Half a Crown (2008) 548 exemplar
The King's Peace (2000) 530 exemplar
What Makes This Book So Great (2014) 470 exemplar
The Philosopher Kings (2015) 442 exemplar
Lent (2019) 307 exemplar
Or What You Will (2020) 300 exemplar
The King's Name (2001) 293 exemplar
Lifelode (2009) 291 exemplar
Necessity (2016) 269 exemplar
Starlings (2018) 221 exemplar
The Prize in the Game (2002) 209 exemplar
Realms of Sorcery (2001) — Författare — 44 exemplar
Sleeper (2014) 28 exemplar
Poor Relations (2018) 25 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
BSFA Awards 2020 (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Tradition 2 exemplar
Los reyes filósofos (2023) 1 exemplar
Muses and Lurkers 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

The Vor Game (1990) — Förord, vissa utgåvor2,700 exemplar
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 263 exemplar
Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 220 exemplar
The Book of Dragons: An Anthology (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 212 exemplar
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 180 exemplar
Year's Best Fantasy 2 (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 168 exemplar
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014 Edition (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 153 exemplar
Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 151 exemplar
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 126 exemplar
Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 117 exemplar
Eclipse 4: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 116 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 — 78 exemplar
The Best of Jim Baen's Universe (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 75 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 73 exemplar
Glorifying Terrorism, Manufacturing Contempt: An Anthology (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
Letters to Tiptree (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 54 exemplar
The Stories: Five Years of Original Fiction on tor.com (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 38 exemplar
80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 37 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

In an alternate Great Britain in 1960 where the nation made peace with Germany in 1941 and Hitler is still living, the nation is preparing to host a peace conference with representatives from Germany and Japan. 18-year-old debutante Elvira Royston is preparing to be presented to the Queen, and her guardian, Peter Carmichael, has his hands full preparing for the peace conference as head of the Watch. Elvira and her friend Betsy accept an invitation to a fascist rally at Marble Arch. Everything starts to go wrong when a riot breaks out at the Rally and Elvira is swept up in the aftermath. Does Carmichael have enough political capital to protect her without exposing his clandestine activities?

This was a page-turner as tension built around Elvira and Carmichael. The resolution was a little too quick and easy and it left some threads hanging. I wish I could say that the alternate world that Walton created in this trilogy would never really exist, but in the current state of the world, it’s all too easy to imagine such a repressive social structure developing.
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cbl_tn | 39 andra recensioner | Mar 5, 2024 |
This was wonderful and I. want. more!
 
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jazzbird61 | 95 andra recensioner | Feb 29, 2024 |
Found this on my e-reader (I must have got it free somewhere?) and remembered that I liked Jo Walton, so I might as well read it.

The premise is weird, but I promise it's interesting. In the notes, Walton says she was fifteen when she had an idea about time travelers setting up the Just City from Plato's Republic in Atlantis, but couldn't have pulled it off until now.

I wouldn't have been one of the people who prayed to Athene to live in the Just City, and I like Athene's (Walton's) explanation: the difference between times where we believe in attaining perfection and the times where we believe in progress. I was torn about whether to shelve this as queer; there are lots of side-mentions of bi- and homosexuality, but not any of the main characters and not as a central concern. (SO MANY HISTORICAL LESBIANS THO. IF THERE IS NO FANFIC I WILL BE DISAPPOINTED IN THE INTERNET.) The gender binary is strong in this one.

Apollo decides he needs to live as a human for a lifetime to understand equal significance and volition, and sexism and slavery are two of the foundational cracks with which the city struggles most profoundly. I might have more thoughts about this later, but Walton's treatment of both was good.

Klio's supposed to be from our near future, but she reads more like a 70s or 80s feminist. Does she not quite grok rape culture, or is she purposely giving a less-enlightened response to a date rape that takes place in the book because they're surrounded by a bunch of powerful dudes from the middle ages and antiquity and she's just being practical? (Ugh, what a time for a philosopher to choose practicality.) Both make her look bad, but her response makes more sense from a pre-2000s feminist.
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caedocyon | 75 andra recensioner | Feb 23, 2024 |
A comedy of manners where Jane Austen meets dragons in this unusual book. It’s really quite bonkers! The dragons wear hats for certain occasions which, as I understand it, symbolise how wealthy they are. To me, at first, it read like a young adult novel but as I progressed, I began to enjoy it more. It did make me giggle at times and the images of dragons in hats which kept appearing in my mind’s eye were quite hilarious. I’m not sure whether I was supposed to find them funny but I did. Despite that, there is a good plot and a variety of characters to keep the reader engaged. All in all not a bad book but probably not my genre! I’ve given myself a Brownie point for reading it! 🐲😄… (mer)
 
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VanessaCW | 95 andra recensioner | Feb 17, 2024 |

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Statistik

Verk
55
Även av
32
Medlemmar
13,044
Popularitet
#1,784
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
877
ISBN
186
Språk
10
Favoritmärkt
51

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