02488cam a2200385 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000290009502000260012402000270015003500130017704000280019004100080021804200080022605000230023408200170025710000240027424500490029826400280034730000230037533600210039833700250041933800230044450000360046752013050050365000540180865000540186265000380191665000620195465000480201665000380206417852221BJBSDDR20251020150209.0ta130814s2014    nyu           000 0 eng    a  2013028170  a9780765331939 (hardback)  a0765331934 (hardback)  z9781466844094 (e-book)  a17852221  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  aeng  apcc14aPS 374bW239w 201400a813/.08762091 aWalton, Jo, d1964-10a What makes this book so great /cJo Walton. 1aNew York :bTor,c2014.  a446 pages ;c25 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  a"A Tom Doherty Associates Book"  a"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"--cProvided by publisher. 0aScience fiction, AmericanxHistory and criticism. 0aFantasy fiction, AmericanxHistory and criticism. 0aBooks and readingzUnited States. 4aCiencia ficciónxHistoria y crítica zEstados Unidos  4aNovela fantástica xHistoria y crítica  4aLibros y lecturazEstados Unidos