About
JO WALTON won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her novel Among Others and the Tiptree Award for her novel My Real Children. Before that, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her novel Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award. The novels of her Small Change sequence-Farthing, Ha'penny, and Half a Crown-have won acclaim ranging from national newspapers to the Romantic Times Critics' Choice Award. A native of Wales, she lives in Montreal.
"Funny, acute, and impassioned."-Ursula K. Le Guin on Among Others
"Or What You Will is a Jo Walton book. Which is to say-it's a joy and a revelation, and I never wanted it to end." -Rainbow Rowell
"Rendered with Walton's usual power and beauty…It's this haunting character complexity that ultimately holds the reader captive to the tale."-N. K. Jemisin, The New York Times, on My Real Children
"Has as much in common with an Alice Munro story as it does with, say, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle."-Lev Grossman, Publishers Weekly, on My Real Children
"Walton shines, as she always does, in the small and hurtful and glorious business of interpersonal relationships...this book about philosophy, history, gender and freedom also manages to be a spectacular coming-of-age tale that encompasses everything from courtroom dramas to sexual intrigue." -Cory Doctorow, on The Just City
"A remarkable novel of ideas...Superb. In the end, the novel does more than justice to the idea of the Just City." -Booklist, starred review, on The Just City
"Funny, acute, and impassioned."-Ursula K. Le Guin on Among Others
"Or What You Will is a Jo Walton book. Which is to say-it's a joy and a revelation, and I never wanted it to end." -Rainbow Rowell
"Rendered with Walton's usual power and beauty…It's this haunting character complexity that ultimately holds the reader captive to the tale."-N. K. Jemisin, The New York Times, on My Real Children
"Has as much in common with an Alice Munro story as it does with, say, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle."-Lev Grossman, Publishers Weekly, on My Real Children
"Walton shines, as she always does, in the small and hurtful and glorious business of interpersonal relationships...this book about philosophy, history, gender and freedom also manages to be a spectacular coming-of-age tale that encompasses everything from courtroom dramas to sexual intrigue." -Cory Doctorow, on The Just City
"A remarkable novel of ideas...Superb. In the end, the novel does more than justice to the idea of the Just City." -Booklist, starred review, on The Just City
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"Enchanting and immersive. Every Jo Walton book takes you somewhere new and wondrous. I loved Everybody's Perfect."
Rainbow Rowell, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Simon Snow trilogy.
"I am in awe of this book. Jo Walton is a writer's writer. I couldn't stop turning pages, marveling at the unexpected, vastly rewarding twists and turns of her misty Serenissima with its rogues and beggars, seers and sailors, and genders of all description. Whatever she invites us along on, we find ourselves wiser than when we began, with more insight into our own world through the one she's crafted for us."
Ellen Kushner, author of Swordspoint