She doesn’t write about the same thing twice. When I despair of the human race and of myself her books remind me both that I need to keep trying and that there are others out there trying too. She is an inclusive author for no other reason than that all people are a part of life and stories. No matter what she turns her hand to, there is a deliberateness to her writing – she is economical always, but also beautiful, poetic and elegant. And because I want to celebrate in my own small way just how many and various her work has been so far.īefore we begin, my three reasons for loving Jo Walton’s fiction are as follows: Because even if you’ve bounced off one book by Walton, doesn’t mean that another of her novels won’t grab you by the hair. So, I thought a sort of can-I-tempt-you? post was in order. She is an automatic-purchase author for me and someone I reread a lot. For such a wide-ranging and multi-award-winning author I am always surprised when her books don’t appear across a whole swathe of blogs like some others do. Maybe you’ve read something by Jo Walton, maybe you haven’t. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. “Everybody has a secret world inside of them.
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