Books by Jo Walton

Starlings

by Jo Walton

(65 reviews)

"Starlings isn't really a short-story collection. It's something better: a written showreel, illustrating yet again that [Walton's] imagination stretches to the stars (or the starlings), and that she's endlessly inventive in... See More

TFF-X: Ten years of The Future Fire: A speculative fiction anthology

by Jennifer Marie Brissett

X for ten years, X for marking out a spot in the genre, X for the unknown variable that changes the status quo. This anthology is a mix of reprints from the first decade of The Future Fire magazine, and new, experimental... See More

Among Others: A Novel (Hugo Award Winner - Best Novel)

by Jo Walton

(2,052 reviews)

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... See More

My Real Children

by Jo Walton

(487 reviews)

It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know-what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers... See More

Necessity: A Novel (Thessaly Book 3)

by Jo Walton

(206 reviews)

2017 Sunburst Award for Adult Fiction Finalist Necessity: the sequel to the acclaimed The Just City and The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton's tales of gods, humans, and what they have to learn from one another. More than... See More

The Philosopher Kings: A Novel (Thessaly Book 2)

by Jo Walton

(273 reviews)

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... See More

An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000

by Jo Walton

(54 reviews)

Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, An Informal History of the Hugos is a book about the renowned science fiction award for the many who enjoyed Jo Walton's previous collection of writing from Tor.com, the... See More

Or What You Will

by Jo Walton

(127 reviews)

Or What You Will is an utterly original novel about how stories are brought forth from Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jo Walton. He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy... See More

The Just City (Thessaly Book 1)

by Jo Walton

(748 reviews)

"Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent." Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community... See More

Farthing: A Story of a World that Could Have Been (Small Change Book 1)

by Jo Walton

(552 reviews)

One summer weekend in 1949 -- but not our 1949 -- the well-connected "Farthing set", a group of upper-crust English families, enjoy a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those families; her parents were both... See More

Lent: A Novel of Many Returns

by Jo Walton

(213 reviews)

From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of the man who remade fifteenth-century Florence -- in all its astonishing strangeness Young Girolamo's life is a series of... See More

What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy

by Jo Walton

(93 reviews)

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... See More

Tooth and Claw

by Jo Walton

(936 reviews)

A tale of contention over love and money -- among dragons Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted... See More

Half a Crown: A Story of a World that Could Have Been (Small Change Book 3)

by Jo Walton

(333 reviews)

In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain's upper class never faltered, while British ships ferried "undesirables" across the... See More

Ha'penny: A Story of a World that Could Have Been (Small Change Book 2)

by Jo Walton

(99 reviews)

In 1949, eight years after the "Peace with Honor" was negotiated between Great Britain and Nazi Germany by the Farthing Set, England has completed its slide into fascist dicatorship. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb... See More

The King's Peace (Sulien Book 1)

by Jo Walton

(127 reviews)

Sulien ap Gwien was seventeen when the Jarnish raiders came. Had she been armed when they found her, she could have taken them all. As it was, it took six of them to subdue her. She will never forgive them. Thus begins her... See More

Story Behind the Book : Volume 1 (Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction)

by Jo Walton

"Story Behind the Book : Volume 1" collects nearly 40 non-fiction essays on writing and editing speculative fiction written by some of the most exciting authors and editors. Essays cover everything from getting an initial... See More

The King's Name (Sulien Book 2)

by Jo Walton

(89 reviews)

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... See More

The Prize in the Game (Sulien Book 3)

by Jo Walton

(54 reviews)

Set in the world of Jo Walton's previous novels, The King's Peace and The King's Name, 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... See More

Visiting Friends: Or, What I Did On My Summer Vacation

by Jo Walton

(1 review)

In the summer of 2019, fantasy writer Jo Walton set out on a European road trip to visit the homes of some of her friends, all of them dead for centuries: Voltaire, Diderot, Petrarch, Pico della Mirandola... On the same days... See More

Lifelode

by Jo Walton

(197 reviews)

Lifelode is the Mythopoeic Award Winning novel from Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning author Jo Walton. It was published in hardcover in 2009 by NESFA Press and is now available for the first time as an ebook. At... See More

Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project: A Tor.com Original

by Charlie Jane Anders

(466 reviews)

Tor.com's science fiction and fantasy flash fiction collection originally published in 2017 inspired by the now-iconic statement, now available in e-book format. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless... See More

Thessaly: The Complete Trilogy (The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, Necessity)

by Jo Walton

(50 reviews)

Finalist for 2017 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature For the first time, Jo Walton's critically acclaimed, genre-defying trilogy Thessaly -- The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, and Necessity -- is available in... See More

Shoreline of Infinity 8½ Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition: Science Fiction Magazine

by Noel Chidwick

(2 reviews)

This is a special edition produced in partnership with the Edinburgh International Book Festival for 2017. We have fantastic sci-fi stories, articles and poems from Pippa Goldschmidt, Adam Roberts, Ken MacLeod, Ada Palmer... See More

A Burden Shared: A Tor.com Original

by Jo Walton

(29 reviews)

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. See More

Sleeper: A Tor.Com Original

by Jo Walton

(17 reviews)

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. See More

Lightspeed Magazine, July 2014

by Lightspeed Magazine

(1 review)

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy... See More

Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction: A Tor.Com Original (Small Change)

by Jo Walton

(5 reviews)

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... See More