What makes this book so great, Jo Walton

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What makes this book so great, Jo Walton

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Jo Walton

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• What makes this book so great

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• New York, Tor,, 2014

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"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."

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Why I re-read -- A Deepness in the Sky, the tragical history of Pham Nuwen -- The singularity problem and non-problem -- Random Acts of Senseless Violence : why isn't it a classic of the field? -- From herring to marmalade : the perfect plot of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency -- "That's just scenery" : what do we mean by "mainstream"? -- Re-reading long series -- The distopic earths of Heinlein's juveniles -- Happiness, meaning and significance : Karl Schroeder's Lady of Mazes -- The weirdest book in the world -- The poetry of deep time : Arthur C. Clark's Against the Fall of Night -- Clarke reimagined in hot pink : Tanith Leed's Biting the Sun -- Something rich and strange : Candas Jane Dorsey's Black Wine -- To trace impunity : Greg Egan's Permutation City -- Black and white and read a million times : Jerry Pournelle's Janissaries -- College as magic garden : why Pamela Dean's Tam Lin is a book you'll either love or hate -- Making the future work : Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang -- Anathem : what does it gain from not being our world? -- A happy ending depends on when you stop : Heavy Time, Hellburner and C.J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe -- Knights who say "Fuck" : swearing in genre fiction -- "Earth is one world" : C.J. Cherryh's Downbelow Station -- "Space is wide and good friends are too few" : Cherryh's Merchanter novels -- "A need to deal wounds" : rape of men in Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels -- How to talk to writers -- "Give me back the Berlin Wall" : Ken MacLeod's The Sky Road -- What a pity she couldn't have single-handedly invented science fiction! George Eliot's Middlemarch -- The beauty of lists : Angelica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial -- Like pop rocks for the brain : Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand -- Between two worlds : S.P. Somtow's Jasmine Nights -- Lots of reasons to love these : Daniel Abraham's Long Price books -- Maori fantasy : Keri Hulme's The Bone People -- Better to have loved and lost? Series that go downhill -- More questions than answers : Robert A. Henlein's The Stone Pillow -- Weeping for her enemies : Lois McMaster Bujold's Shards of Honor -- Forward momentum : Lois McMaster Bujold's The Warrior's Apprentice -- Quest for ovaries : Lois McMaster Bujold's Ethan of Athos -- Why he must not fail : Lois McMaster Bujold's Borders of Infinity -- What have you done with your baby brother? Lois McMaster Bujold's Brothers in Arms -- Hard on his superiors : Lois McMaster Bujold's The Vor Game -- One birth, one death, and all the acts of pain and will between : Lois McMater Bujold's Barrayar -- All true wealth is biological : Lois McMaster Bujold's Mirros Dance -- Luck is something you make for yourself : Lois McMaster Bujold's Cetaganda -- This is my old identity, actually : Lois McMaster Bujold's Memory -- But I'm Vor : Lois McMaster Bujold's Komarr -- She's getting away! Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign -- Just my job : Lois McMater Bujold's Diplomatic Immunity -- Every day is a gift : Lois McMaster Bujold's "Winterfair Gifts" -- Choose again, and change : Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga -- So, what sort of series do you like? -- Time travel and slavery : Octavia Butler's Kindred -- America the Beautiful : Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain -- Susan Palwick's Shelter -- Scintillations of a sensory syrynx : Samuel Delany's Nova -- You may not know it, but you want to read this : Francis Spufford's Backroom Boys : the Secret Return of the British Boffin -- Faster than light at any speed -- Gender and glaciers : Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness -- Licensed to see weasels and jade earrings : the short stories of Lord Dunsany -- The net of a million lies : Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep -- The worst book I love : Robert A. Heinlein's Friday -- India's superheroes : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children -- A funny book with a lot of death in it : Iain Banks's The Crow Road -- More dimensions than you'd expect : Samuel Delany's Babel-17 -- Bad, but good : David Feintuch's Midshipman's Hope -- Subtly twisted history : John M. Ford's The Dragon Waiting --A very long poem : Alan Garner's Red Shift -- Beautiful, poetic and experimental : Roger Zelazny's Doorways in the Sand -- Waking the dragon : George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire -- Who reads cosy catastrophes? -- Stalinism vs champagne at the opera : Constantine Fitzgibbon's When the Kissing Had to Stop -- The future of the Commonwealth : Nevil Shute's In the Wet -- Twists of the God game : John Fowles's The Magus -- Playing the angles on a world : Steven Brust's Dragaera -- Jhereg feeds on others' kills : Steven Brust's Jhereg -- Yendi coils and strikes unseen : Steven Brust's Yendi -- A coachman's tale : Steven Brust's Brokedown Palace -- Frightened teckla hides in grass : Steven Brust's Teckla -- How can you tell? Steven Brust's Taltos -- Phoenix rise from ashes grey : Steven Brust's Phoenix -- I have been asking fo nothing else for an hour : Steven Brust's The Phoenix Guards -- Athyra rules minds' interplay : Steven Brust's Athyra -- What, is there more? Steven Brust's Five Hundred Years After -- Orca circles, hard and lean : Steven Brust's Orca -- Haughty dragon yearns to slay : Steven Brust's Dragon -- Issola strikes from courtly bow : Steven Brust's Issola -- What has gone before? -- The time about which I have the honor to write : Steven Brust's The Viscount of Adrilankha -- Dzur stalks and blends with night : Steven Brust's Dzur -- Jhegaala shifts as moments pass : Steven Brust's Jhegaala -- Quiet iorich won't forget : Steven Brust's Iorich -- Quakers in space : Molly Gloss's The Dazzle of Day -- Locked in our separate skulls : Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall -- Saving both worlds : Katherine Blake (Dorothy Heydt)'s The Interior Life -- Yearning for the unattainable : James Tiptree Jr.'s short stories -- SF reading protocols -- Incredibly readable : Robert A. Heinlein's The Door in Summer -- Nasty, but brilliant : John Barnes's Kaleidoscope Century -- Growing up in a space dystopia : John Barnes's Orbital Resonance -- The joy of an unfinished series -- Fantasy and the need to remake our origin stories -- The mind, the heart, sex, class, feminism, true love, intrigue, not your everyday ho-hum detective story : Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night -- Three short Hainish novels : Ursula K. Le Guin's Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions -- On reflection, not very dangerous : Harlan Ellison's The Last Dangerous Visions -- Why do I re-read things I don't like? -- Yakking about who's civilised and who's not : H. Beam Piper's Space Viking -- Feast or famine? -- Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, Jay Schreib's play of Samuel Delany's Dhalgren -- Not much changes on the street, only the faces : George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails -- History inside out : Howard Waldrop's Them Bones -- I'd love this book if I didn't loathe the protagonist : Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr's Household Gods -- Screwball-comedy time travel : John Kessel's Corrupting Dr. Nice -- Academic time travel : Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog -- The society of time : John Brunner's Times Without Number -- Five short stories with useless time travel -- Time control : Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity -- Texan ghost fantasy : Sean Stewart's Perfect Circle -- The language of stones : Terri Windling's The Wood Wife -- A great castle made of sea : why hasn't Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell been more influential? -- Gulp or sip : how do you read? -- Quincentennial : Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth -- Do you skim? -- A merrier world : J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit -- Monuments from the future : Robert Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths -- The suck fairy -- Trains on the moon : John M. Ford's Growing Up Weightless -- Overlodading the sense : Samuel Delany's Nova -- Aliens and Jesuits : James Blish's A Case of Conscience -- Swiftly goes the swordplay : Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword -- The work of disenchantment never ends : Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge -- Literary criticism vs talking about books

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855909865

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25 cm

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First edition.

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446 pages

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9780765331946

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2013028170

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(OCoLC)855909865