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Jo Walton

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Jo Walton won a Locus Award 2015 for science fiction and fantasy in the non-fiction category with his title What Makes This Book So Great. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Image credit: Jo Walton trying to cheer up a stone lion in Florence.

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Tekijän teokset

Among Others (2011) 2,933 kappaletta
Farthing (2006) 1,581 kappaletta
Tooth and Claw (2003) 1,512 kappaletta
The Just City (2015) 1,032 kappaletta
My Real Children (2014) 871 kappaletta
Ha'penny (2007) 764 kappaletta
Half a Crown (2008) 548 kappaletta
The King's Peace (2000) 530 kappaletta
What Makes This Book So Great (2014) 470 kappaletta
The Philosopher Kings (2015) 442 kappaletta
Lent (2019) 307 kappaletta
Or What You Will (2020) 300 kappaletta
The King's Name (2001) 293 kappaletta
Lifelode (2009) 291 kappaletta
Necessity (2016) 269 kappaletta
Starlings (2018) 221 kappaletta
The Prize in the Game (2002) 209 kappaletta
An Informal History of the Hugos (2018) 138 kappaletta
Realms of Sorcery (2001) — Tekijä — 44 kappaletta
Sleeper (2014) 28 kappaletta
Poor Relations (2018) 25 kappaletta
A Burden Shared (2017) 15 kappaletta
The Rebirth of Pan (1997) 12 kappaletta
The Helix and the Hard Road (2013) 6 kappaletta
What Would Sam Spade Do? (2006) 4 kappaletta
Three Twilight Tales 4 kappaletta
Sibyls and Spaceships (2009) 4 kappaletta
The panda coin [short fiction] (2011) 3 kappaletta
What A Piece Of Work 3 kappaletta
Unreliable Witness 3 kappaletta
Parable Lost 3 kappaletta
BSFA Awards 2020 (2021) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
Tradition 2 kappaletta
Remember The Allosaur 2 kappaletta
Los reyes filósofos (2023) 1 kappale

Associated Works

The Vor Game (1990) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset2,700 kappaletta
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (2015) — Avustaja — 263 kappaletta
The Book of Dragons: An Anthology (2020) — Avustaja — 212 kappaletta
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (2013) — Avustaja — 180 kappaletta
Year's Best Fantasy 2 (2002) — Avustaja — 168 kappaletta
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014 Edition (2015) — Avustaja — 153 kappaletta
Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project (2020) — Avustaja — 151 kappaletta
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four (2010) — Avustaja — 126 kappaletta
Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) — Avustaja — 117 kappaletta
Eclipse 4: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011) — Avustaja — 116 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition (2010) — Avustaja — 94 kappaletta
Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction (2018) — Avustaja — 78 kappaletta
The Best of Jim Baen's Universe (2007) — Avustaja — 75 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition (2015) — Avustaja — 73 kappaletta
Glorifying Terrorism, Manufacturing Contempt: An Anthology (2006) — Avustaja — 69 kappaletta
Letters to Tiptree (2015) — Avustaja — 54 kappaletta
The Stories: Five Years of Original Fiction on tor.com (2013) — Avustaja — 38 kappaletta
80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin (2010) — Avustaja — 37 kappaletta
Uncanny Magazine Issue 18: September/October 2017 (2017) — Avustaja — 17 kappaletta
The Usual Path to Publication: 27 Stories About 27 Ways In (2016) — Avustaja — 14 kappaletta
Subterranean Magazine, Issue #4 (Spring 2006) (2006) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
The Moment of Change (2012) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 50 • July 2014 (2014) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
Mythic 2 (2006) — Avustaja — 9 kappaletta
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 8: Re-Generating WisCon (2014) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Lone Star Stories 13 — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
Abbreviated Epics (2014) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
Focus 69 (2019) — Avustaja — 1 kappale

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Jo Walton's Among Others, Science Fiction Fans (elokuu 2012)
Chat about... Among Others by Jo Walton, The SF&F Book Chat (kesäkuu 2012)
"Farthing" Group Discussion, Group Reads - Sci-Fi (helmikuu 2009)

Kirja-arvosteluja

The Greek gods Apollo and Athene want to see how Plato’s Republic would work. They bring on the island of Thera (which will be completely destroyed in volcanic eruption removing any changes to the real timeline) 10,000 ten-year-old children, who are bought from the slave traders during several centuries and adult supervisors (who at some time have prayed for Plato’s Republic being real) through history – many of them women who haven’t been able to be what they want at their own time. The children are then brought up using the teachings of Plato as a guide. The city is filled with real artwork which has been rescued from fires and disasters during the whole human history and its library is lifted from Alexandria just before the Fire. Both Apollo and Athene are living in the city disguised as children. Everything seems to go according to the plan, but when children are old enough, Socrates is brought in to teach rhetoric and he starts to ask questions, some hard and very disruptive questions.

An extremely good book which examines the fascinating basic idea from many different viewpoints without forgetting some of the less idealistic and ethical details of the great plan. Are they supporting and encouraging slavery when they bought the children? Is it ok to bring children, even freed slaves, to the city without their consent? Is Plato’s idealistic and utopic plan really the best way to run a city? Why are the gods doing what they do? Is it reasonable to assume that gods – especially Greek gods – are good or mean well? An enjoyable thought experiment, which demanded some background checking about ancient philosophers and philosophies. The downside is that the story will continue in the next book – I believe that this story could and should have been told in one book.
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