Book: Among Others
Jan. 26th, 2011 12:09 amAuthor: Jo Walton (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Details: (c) 2010 Jo Walton; Pub 2011 Tor; ISBN 978-0-7653-2153-4
Verdict: Among Others has some astoundingly good features, but doesn't quite hang together.
Reasons for reading it: The LJ posts wherepapersky was talking about it made it sound like an absolutely marvellous book, and then everybody on the internet was raving about it.
How it came into my hands: I bought it as a brand new hardback the week it came out. Partly because it's a book I was really excited about, and partly because I wanted to supportpapersky and partly because Tor seem to have this bizarre artificial scarcity thing going on where they don't publish Walton's books in affordable formats, and they make people outside the US jump through stupid hoops to get them (even though she's one of their most successful authors).
( detailed review )
papersky)Details: (c) 2010 Jo Walton; Pub 2011 Tor; ISBN 978-0-7653-2153-4
Verdict: Among Others has some astoundingly good features, but doesn't quite hang together.
Reasons for reading it: The LJ posts where
papersky was talking about it made it sound like an absolutely marvellous book, and then everybody on the internet was raving about it.How it came into my hands: I bought it as a brand new hardback the week it came out. Partly because it's a book I was really excited about, and partly because I wanted to support
papersky and partly because Tor seem to have this bizarre artificial scarcity thing going on where they don't publish Walton's books in affordable formats, and they make people outside the US jump through stupid hoops to get them (even though she's one of their most successful authors).( detailed review )
