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What Makes This Book So Great : Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jo Walton (2015, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-100765331942
ISBN-139780765331946
eBay Product ID (ePID)202407985
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhat Makes this Book So Great : Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience Fiction & Fantasy, Books & Reading
Publication Year2015
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorJo Walton
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight16.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
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 Decimal813/.0876209
SynopsisAs 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., 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 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 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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