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WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK SO GREAT
RE-READING THE CLASSICS OF FANTASY AND SF |
| By: |
Jo Walton |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£13.99 |
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£12.59 |
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£1.40 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1472111613 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781472111616 |
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| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
8 January, 2015 |
| Pages: |
480 |
| Description: |
A unique book, from the incomparable Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Among Others, Jo Walton: What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Fantasy and SF is a collection of brilliant reassessments of the classics - and the forgotten gems - of modern fantasy and SF. |
| Synopsis: |
Jo Walton is an award-winning author of, inveterate reader of, and chronic re-reader of science fiction and fantasy books. What Makes This Book So Great? is a selection of the best of her musings about her prodigious reading habit. Jo Walton's many subjects range from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. Among them, the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by `mainstream'; the under-appreciated 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 engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Corsair |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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