Books by Jo Walton
Jo Walton has published fifteen novels, most recently Or What You Will. She has also published three poetry collections, two essay collections and a short story collection. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002, the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw in 2004, the Hugo and Nebula awards for Among Others in 2012, and in 2014 both the Tiptree Award for My Real Children and the Locus Award for Best Non-fiction for What Makes This Book So Great.
“What we have here is time travellers setting up Plato’s Republic on an island with the help of Greek gods. These are time travellers from the past and present and future. So Cicero is there, but we also have Victorian people and Renaissance people who studied Plato, and robots from the future… And they are trying to set up and do the Republic. It’s a really delightful series, thinking directly through Plato’s Republic in the way it needs to be thought through.” Read more...
Ada Palmer, Novelist
Interviews with Jo Walton
The Best Fairy Books for Adults, recommended by Jo Walton
Fairies have long stood for the numinous other, and since the twentieth century authors have put fairy tradition to a variety of uses. Award-winning author Jo Walton introduces us to five landmark stories of fairies – wide-ranging in setting and themes, but always at once alluring and discomfiting.
Interviews where books by Jo Walton were recommended
The Best Sci-Fi Book Series, recommended by Ada Palmer
A series gives a sci fi writer time to develop powerfully layered worlds, says award-winning author and historian Ada Palmer. She talks us through five series that make the most of this complexity, and envision worlds ranging from lunar anarchist settlements to a real-life Plato’s Republic.
The Best Fairy Books for Adults, recommended by Jo Walton
Fairies have long stood for the numinous other, and since the twentieth century authors have put fairy tradition to a variety of uses. Award-winning author Jo Walton introduces us to five landmark stories of fairies – wide-ranging in setting and themes, but always at once alluring and discomfiting.
