What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy Jo Walton
What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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As any fan of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic rereader of books. In 2008, then-new science fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her rereading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com. Now this volume presents a selection of the best of them, ranging from short essays to long reassessments of some of the field's most ambitious series.
Among Walton's many subjects here are the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by "mainstream"; the underappreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field's many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read.
Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is a must-listen, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers.
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- Gogmagog Jeff Noon, Steve Beard
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- Incomplete Solutions Wole Talabi
- The Last Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison
- Chimera Alice Thompson
- The Annual Migration of Clouds Trilogy, Book 1 & 2: The Annual Migration of Clouds and We Speak Through the Mountain Premee Mohamed
- Bone Swans C. S. E. Cooney
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