New Releases by Jo Walton

What we do for one another is a mystery. A Tor.com original. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016 & 2017 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Julia Rios and Michi Trota, each issue includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004.

After being moved to planet Plato by Zeus, the Cities are prospering and flourishing, until Pytheas dies as a human and returns as the god Apollo.

From acclaimed, award-winning author Jo Walton: Philosopher Kings, a tale of gods and humans, and the surprising things they have to learn from one another. Twenty years have elapsed since the events of The Just City. The City, founded by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, organized on the principles espoused in Plato''s Republic and populated by people from all eras of human history, has now split into five cities, and low-level armed conflict between them is not unheard-of. The god Apollo, living (by his own choice) a human life as "Pythias" in the City, his true identity known only to a few, is now married and the father of several children. But a tragic loss causes him to become consumed with the desire for revenge. Being Apollo, he goes handling it in a seemingly rational and systematic way, but it''s evident, particularly to his precocious daughter Arete, that he is unhinged with grief. Along with Arete and several of his sons, plus a boatload of other volunteers--including the now fantastically aged Marsilio Ficino, the great humanist of Renaissance Florence--Pythias/Apollo goes sailing into the mysterious Eastern Mediterranean of pre-antiquity to see what they can find—possibly the man who may have caused his great grief, possibly communities of the earliest people to call themselves "Greek." What Apollo, his daughter, and the rest of the expedition will discover...will change everything. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Huit ans après que «la paix dans l''honneur» a été signée entre l''Angleterre et l''Allemagne, les membres du groupe de Farthing, à l''origine de l''éviction de Churchill et du traité qui a suivi, fin 1941, se réunissent au domaine Eversley pour le week-end. Bien qu''elle se soit mariée avec un Juif, ce qui lui vaut d''habitude d''être tenue à l''écart, Lucy Kahn, née Eversley, fait partie des invités. Les festivités sont vite interrompues par le meurtre de Sir James Thirkie, le principal artisan de la paix avec Adolf Hitler. Sur son cadavre a été laissée en évidence l''étoile jaune de David Kahn. Un meurtre a eu lieu à Farthing et un coupable tout désigné se trouvait sur les lieux du crime. Convaincue de l''innocence de son mari, Lucy trouvera dans le policier chargé de l''enquête, Peter Antony Carmichael, un allié. Mais pourront-ils ensemble infléchir la trajectoire d''un Empire britannique près de verser dans la folie et la haine ?

Un fin de semana del verano de 1949 el «círculo de Farthing», un grupo bien relacionado de la flor y nata de las familias inglesas, disfruta de unos días en el campo. Lucy es la hija menor de una de esas familias. Sus padres fueron destacados personajes dentro del grupo que derrocó a Churchill y negoció la paz con Hitler ocho años antes. Lucy está felizmente casada con un judío londinense, a pesar de la manifiesta desaprobación de sus padres; por eso fue muy sorprendente que les invitaran a ella y a su esposo, David, a pasar esos días en el campo. Y resulta mucho más sorprendente cuando, la primera noche, un importante político del círculo de Farthing resulta asesinado de forma espantosa, con numerosos signos que apuntan a una muerte ritual.

En 1949, ocho años después de que el círculo de Farthing negociara la «Paz con Honor» entre Gran Bretaña y la Alemania nazi, Inglaterra ha completado su deriva hacia una dictadura fascista. Cuando el infame Mark Normanby apro-vecha un asesinato político para organizar su elección como primer ministro, las últimas esperanzas para la democracia parecen agotarse. Entonces explota una bomba en un área residencial de Londres. El inspector Carmichael, de Scotland Yard, un hombre brillante aunque sometido a presiones políticas, se encarga de llevar el caso. Lo que averigua lo lleva hasta una conspiración por parte de nobles y comunistas, de leales adeptos al rey y a la patria y de implacables pistoleros del ira, para asesinar a Normanby y a su nuevo aliado, Adolf Hitler.

Este es un libro curioso y diferente. Narra la historia de una familia que se enfrenta a la muerte de su padre, de un hijo que acude a la ley para reclamar su herencia, de otro que se atormenta con la confesión que le hizo su progenitor en su lecho de muerte; de una hija que se enamora, de otra que se implica en el movimiento abolicionista y de una más que se sacrifica por su marido. Salvo que todos los protagonistas de esta historia son dragones de garras y colmillos ensangrentados... Tenemos aquí un mundo de políticos y estaciones de ferrocarril, de cortejos y mansiones en el campo... Un mundo en el que al morir un anciano, los miembros de su familia se reúnen para comerse el cuerpo del fallecido. Una sociedad en la que los miembros más poderosos se aprovechan de sus privilegios para matar y comerse a los hijos más débiles, con gran deleite y ceremonia, para hacerse más fuertes.

History is a thing we make—in more senses than one. And from more directions. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

As an elderly woman in 2015, Patricia Cowan reflects on both her lives, one as Pat and the other as Tricia, as the decisions she made in her life provide two drastically different experiences

“A remarkable guided tour through the field—a kind of nonfiction companion to Among Others. It’s very good. It’s great.” —Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing As any reader of Jo Walton’s Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com. Now this volumes presents a selection of the best of them, ranging from short essays to long reassessments of some of the field’s most ambitious series. Among Walton’s many subjects here are the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by “mainstream”; the underappreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field’s many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read. Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is an immensely readable, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers. “For readers unschooled in the history of SF/F, this book is a treasure trove.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Helix and the Hard Road celebrates the work of Joan Slonczewski and Jo Walton, WisCon 37''s Guests of Honor. The volume includes Slonczewski''s essay "I Have No Time, and I Must Write" and her short fiction "Tuberculosis Bacteria Joins the UN," and a previously unpublished collection of Walton''s poetry, "The River and the Road." In addition, the authors talk at length with interviewers knowledgeable about their work: Walton with Lynne M. Thomas, and Slonczewski with Michael Levy.

This story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood is at once a diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and science fiction, and a tale of escape from ancient enchantment.

Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closests companions. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled--and her twin sister dead.

Winner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel Winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel Startling, unusual, and yet irresistibly readable, Jo Walton''s Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment. Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled--and her twin sister dead. Fleeing to her father whom she barely knew, Mori was sent to boarding school in England-a place all but devoid of true magic. There, outcast and alone, she tempted fate by doing magic herself, in an attempt to find a circle of like-minded friends. But her magic also drew the attention of her mother, bringing about a reckoning that could no longer be put off... Combining elements of autobiography with flights of imagination in the manner of novels like Jonathan Lethem''s The Fortress of Solitude, this is potentially a breakout book for an author whose genius has already been hailed by peers like Kelly Link, Sarah Weinman, and Ursula K. Le Guin. One of School Library Journal''s Best Adult Books 4 Teens titles of 2011 One of io9''s best Science Fiction & Fantasy books of the year 2011 At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

It''s 1960, and the Axis powers dominate the world. Life goes on, because, as we see in "Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction," history is driven both by big events and by small temptations... Following the appearance of her first two novels, The King''s Peace and The King''s Name, Jo Walton won the 2002 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Two years later she won the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw. Her Small Change trilogy, comprising Farthing, Ha''penny, and Half A Crown, is set in a world in which Britain struck an early truce with Hitler in 1941; "Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction" is set in the America of that world. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Following Farthing, another thriller of resistance in a world darkened by triumphant Fascism

The warrior Sulien ap Gwien and her lord King Urdo have finally united the land of Tir Tanagiri into a kingdom ruled by justice under a single code of law. But where many see a hopeful future for the land, others believe they sense the seeds of a new tyranny. Soon Tir Tanagiri faces the blight of civil war, and Sulien ap Gwien must take up arms against former comrades and loved ones, fighting harder and harder to hold on to Urdo''s shining dream. Continuing the epic begun in The King''s Peace, this new novel brings the story of Sulien ap Gwien to a rousing and moving conclusion. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A stunning "what-if" in the manner of "Fatherland" and "The Plot Against ""America"

King Urdo of Caer Tanaga, struggles to bind together the squabbling nobles and petty princes into a unified force to drive out the barbaria invader ad restore the King''s Peace. He will change Sulien''s life, for she sees him as the greatest hope the country has and he sees her as the greates t warrior. Together they will fight and suffer for an age of the world, for the things that world always needs ad which never last

Der Drachenclan der Argonin, 2 Brüder und 2 Schwestern, muss sich in der Drachengesellschaft behaupten. Nach einem Erbschaftsstreit und anderen Verwicklungen haben alle ihren Platz gefunden, die Argonin-Schwestern sind unter der Haube.

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The wrath of a goddess tests alliances between kingdoms and tears apart the lives of four friends in this epic fantasy. Jo Walton’s first two novels, The King''s Peace and The King''s Name, earned her widespread praise and moved her to the front rank of contemporary fantasists. Now she returns with a powerful epic set in the same world . . . The Prize in the Game is the tale of the intertwined fates of four friends, destined for kingship but riven by rivalry and war. Gods stalk the island of Tir Isarnagiri, laying subtle and inescapable dooms upon the feuding kingdoms there. And to those gods, the cares of men and women are less than nothing—but still men and women strive to defy their fates and build destinies of their own. When a friendly competition leads to the death of a beloved horse and incurs the wrath of the Horse Goddess, the stage is set for a deadly game of politics, love, and betrayal. And as the goddess’s curse chases them down the years, Conal, Emer, Darag, and Ferdia will find that ties of friendship, and even love, may not be enough to prevent their respective countries from attacking each other in a war that will devastate the island. The Prize in the Game takes us to a shining era of dark powers, legendary heroes, and passionate loves—all of them ruled by the hand of Fate. “Walton sure-handedly evokes a primitive realm where the Otherworld seamlessly impinges upon reality, bringing sounds, smells, sorrow, hatred and burning love to life as powerfully as the thrust of a barbed spear. She also captures the terrible beauty of a warrior race in an outworn time, struggling, in Yeats’s phrase, to come clear of the eternal nets of wrong and right.” —Publishers Weekly

Sulian ap Gwien was only 17 when the Jarnish raiders came. Had she been armed, she could have defeated them. It took six to subdue her--and she will never forgive them. Thus begins the tale of a woman who rises to become the strong right hand to the great king who will reunite his people. (August)

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