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Walton, Jo.
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Walton, Jo.
Walton, Jo -- Books and reading.
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism.
Futuristic fiction -- History and criticism.
Speculative fiction -- History and criticism.
Books and reading.
Books -- Reviews.
Reading interests.
Novelists, Canadian -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
Authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
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What makes this book so great : re-reading the
classics
of
science
fIction
and
fantasy
/ Jo Walton.
by
Walton, Jo.
Tom Doherty Associates, 2014.
Call #:
809.38762 W239w
Subjects
Walton, Jo -- Books and
reading
.
Science
fiction
-- History and criticism.
Fantasy
fiction
-- History and criticism.
Futuristic
fiction
-- History and criticism.
Speculative
fiction
-- History and criticism.
Books and
reading
.
Books -- Reviews.
Reading
interests.
Novelists, Canadian -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
Authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780765331939 (hc.)
0765331934 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Re-reading the
classics
of
science
fIction
and
fantasy
Reading
the
classics
of
science
fIction
and
fantasy
Classics
of
science
fIction
and
fantasy
Description:
446 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"A Tor book."
Summary:
"As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and
fantasy
, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, the science-fiction website Tor.com asked Walton to blog about her re-reading--about all kinds of older
fantasy
and SF, ranging from acknowledged
classics
, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have become very popular. This is a selection 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, this is an immensely readable, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day
fantasy
and
science
fiction
, from one of our best SF writers. Jo Walton has published eleven novels, three poetry collections, and an essay collection. She won the World
Fantasy
Award in 2004 for Tooth and Claw, and the Hugo and Nebula awards in 2012 for Among Others. She comes from Wales but lives in Montreal. Her website is papersky.livejournal.com. She also blogs about old books at Tor.com"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Essays.
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