![]() ![]() And then there's the rare book, like Jo Walton's Among Others, that's both." "There are the books you want to give all your friends, and there are the books you wish you could go back and give your younger self. ![]() "If you love SF and fantasy, if reading it formed your teen years, if you do remember the magic you used to do, if you remember the absolute joy of first discovering those books, then read this."-Robin Hobb ![]() "Never deigning to transcend the genre to which it is clearly a love letter, this outstanding (and entirely teen-appropriate) tale draws its strength from a sold foundation of sense-of-wonder and what-if." -Publishers WeeklyĪmong Others is about a young girl brought up in a magical family who is sent to a mundane, non-magical school a captivatingly told mirror image of Harry Potter. "I don't believe I've seen, either in fiction or in memoir, as brilliant and tone-perfect an account of what discovering SF and fantasy can mean to its young readers. ![]() I think she almost succeeds."- Ursula Le Guin. Walton's trying hard to do what I call moving the boundary: to alter, or make more permeable, the wall between the possible and the impossible. New York Times.įunny, acute, and impassioned. 2Among Others is a wonder and a joy."- Jeff Vandermeer. ![]()
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