What makes this book so great
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What makes this book so great
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The work What makes this book so great represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- What makes this book so great
- Statement of responsibility
- Jo Walton
- Subject
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- Books and reading
- Books and reading -- United States
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Essais
- Essay
- Essays
- Essays
- FICTION -- Science Fiction | General
- Fantasy fiction, American
- Fantasy fiction, American
- Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science fiction, American
- Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Science-Fiction-Literatur
- United States
- essays
- Kolumne
- Language
- eng
- 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, 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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- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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