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ISBN
9780765331946
Book Title
What Makes this Book So Great : Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Item Length
9in
Publisher
Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom&Co
Publication Year
2015
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.2in
Author
Jo Walton
Genre
Literary Criticism
Topic
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Books & Reading
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Number of Pages
448 Pages

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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, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly 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 consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com. Now this volumes 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 an immensely readable, 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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Publisher
Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom&Co
ISBN-10
0765331942
ISBN-13
9780765331946
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
What Makes this Book So Great : Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Author
Jo Walton
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
448 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz

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Reviews
"This book is a treasure trove." - Publishers Weekly, starred review"Akin to a genre version of Nancy Pearl's Book Lust . Walton's affection for many of these titles is contagious, and fans will find their own reading lists growing."- Library Journal, starred review"A remarkable guided tour through the field-a kind of nonfiction companion to Among Others . It's very good. It's great." -Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "This is certainly going to be a book that I'll go back to again and again."-Andrew Liptak, Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Decimal
813/.0876209
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23

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