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April 2013 Fantasy Book of the Month.
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2012.
This is an intriguing, wonderfully written, magical coming of age story packed with references to Sci Fi books and quite unlike any other book you will come across. Fifteen year old Morwenna lives with her twin sister and family in Wales. They know about magic, the personal costs that come with using it, and they know their mother is a dark witch. A devastating magical battle with her Mother leaves Morwenna crippled, her sister dead and her Mother looking for revenge...
Winner of the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel 2012.
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Among Others Synopsis
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 with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.
Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled--and her twin sister dead.
Fleeing to her father whom she barely knew, Mori was sent to boarding school in England-a place all but devoid of true magic. There, outcast and alone, she tempted fate by doing magic herself, in an attempt to find a circle of like-minded friends. But her magic also drew the attention of her mother, bringing about a reckoning that could no longer be put off...
Combining elements of autobiography with flights of imagination in the manner of novels like Jonathan Lethem's
The Fortress of Solitude, this is potentially a breakout book for an author whose genius has already been hailed by peers like Kelly Link, Sarah Weinman, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
One of
School Library Journal's Best Adult Books 4 Teens titles of 2011
One of io9's best Science Fiction & Fantasy books of the year 2011
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781250237767 |
| Publication date: |
3rd March 2020 |
| Author: |
Jo Walton |
| Publisher: |
Tor Books an imprint of Tor Publishing Group |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
304 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Science Fiction
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Jo Walton Press Reviews
'Among Others is a wonder and a joy.' Jeff Vandermeer, New York Times
'If you love SF and fantasy, if reading it formed your teen years, if you do remember the magic you used to do, if you remember the absolute joy of first discovering those books, then read this.' -- Robin Hobb
'Funny, acute, and impassioned ... Walton's trying hard to do what I call moving the boundary: to alter, or make more permeable, the wall between the possible and the impossible. I think she almost succeeds.'
Ursula Le Guin
'A hymnal for the clever and odd - an inspiration and a lifeline to anyone who has ever felt in the world, but not of it.' Cory Doctorow
'Possibly earning itself the Book of the Year title is Jo Walton's thought provoking Among Others, which stays with you for a long time after reading. It is the story of a young girl from a magical family who is sent to a mundane boarding school and, through her discovery of classic SF novels, has her mind and world expanded.' Independent on Sunday
'Among Others is about a young girl brought up in a magical family who is sent to a mundane, non-magical school; a captivatingly told mirror image of Harry Potter.' The Guardian
'I don't believe I've seen, either in fiction or in memoir, as brilliant and tone-perfect an account of what discovering SF and fantasy can mean to its young readers... Remarkable.' -- Gary K. Wolfe, Locus
'A lovely story, unlike anything I've ever read before: funny, touching, and gently magical.' -- Patrick Rothfuss
'There are the books you want to give all your friends, and there are the books you wish you could go back and give your younger self. And then there's the rare book, like Jo Walton's Among Others, that's both.' io9.com
'Beautifully crafted... Among Others calls to those who desire a wild, magical world in place of the one they have but eventually learn that their own lives are the greatest story of all.' Bloomsbury Review
'Compelling... Never deigning to transcend the genre to which it is clearly a love letter, this outstanding (and entirely teen-appropriate) tale draws its strength from a solid foundation of sense-of-wonder and what-if.' Publishers Weekly, starred review
