Book description
Winner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel
Winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Jo Walton's Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters…
Why read it?
1 author picked Among Others as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Jo Walton is a wonderfully humanistic storyteller with a deep knowledge of history and art who excels at creating alternate societies, and I was fascinated to see her work on a deliberately smaller, more intimate scale in this novel. The text is made up of the diary entries of Morgana, a precocious teenager who is a voracious science fiction and fantasy reader, as is Jason Velez in my novel. Though published in 2011, the book begins at the end of the 70s and perfectly captures the period.
Among Others excels at character development. It feels like a literary mainstream novel…
From Alvaro's list on mind-bending 1970s science fiction.
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They have all (but one) been previously published in various anthologies and online - the 'bonus' story being a new tale set in the 'Unreachable Skies' universe.
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