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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