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Jo Walton

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Welsh-Canadian writer and poet best known for the fantasy novel Among Others and for non-fiction book reviews and science fiction commentary.

Biography

Jo Walton (born 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She is known for the novel Among Others and for Tooth and Claw, which received the World Fantasy Award; Among Others won the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Her other fiction includes the Small Change alternate-history series (Farthing, Ha'penny and Half a Crown), Lifelode and My Real Children. Walton is also known for non-fiction work: she has written book reviews and science fiction commentary for Tor Books at Reactor magazine, and a collection of her articles, What Makes This Book So Great, was published in 2014. She is credited with coining the term the Tiffany Problem in 2019.

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Books by Jo Walton

Among Others
Among Others follows Mori Phelps, who seeks refuge in fantasy novels during a youth overshadowed by a dubiously sane half-brother who dabbled in magic. After a tragic confrontation with her mother, Mori gains unwanted attention when she attempts to perform spells herself.