What Makes This Book So Great by Jo Walton 446 PagesJo Walton has collected a series of blog posts about Science Fiction books that she originally posted at Tor.com. These posts covered a variety of books, older and newer and are among Walton's favorites. She states that most of the books are those she rereads over and over again and her posts are not critical reviews of the books but rather similar to what we do on this blog. In the last post of the book she says the following:
"I am talking about books because I love books. I am not standing on a mountain peak holding them at arm's length and issuing Olympian pronouncements about them. I'm reading them in the bath and shouting with excitement because I have noticed something that is really really cool."
This collection of posts is not for someone looking to find the best books of the Science Fiction genre, since many of the books that Walton talks about are not easy to find and certainly wouldn't appear on most people's lists. However the book is great if you are looking for some new books to read.
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