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An intimate first flight of short fiction from award-winning novelist Jo Walton (Among Others, The King’s Peace).
A strange Eritrean coin travels from lovers to thieves, gathering stories before meeting its match. Google becomes sentient and proceeds toward an existential crisis. An idealistic dancer on a generation ship makes an impassioned plea for creativity and survival. Three Irish siblings embark on an unlikely quest, stealing enchanted items via bad poetry, trickery, and an assist from the Queen of Cats.
With these captivating initial glimpses into her storytelling psyche, Jo Walton shines through subtle myths and wholly reinvented realities. Through eclectic stories, subtle vignettes, inspired poetry, and more, Walton soars with humans, machines, and magic—rising from the everyday into the universe itself.
**Review
Praise for *Starlings*
“An intriguing peek inside a fertile mind.”
―*Kirkus *
“Walton's diverse collection of stories and poems sparkles with originality and fun. The joy of this book will linger with me for a while.”
―Beth Cato, author of The Clockwork Dagger
“Starlings is a showcase of Jo Walton's diverse talents―a collection too varied to be summed up in a few words. From fairytale fantasy to hard science fiction, from laugh-aloud play script to finely crafted poetry, with a writing experiment or two thrown in, Starlings should delight Walton's existing fans and garner many new ones.”
―Juliet Marillier, author of Daughter of the Living Forest
“Stephen King once wrote that ‘a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger’―that is, sudden, pleasant, mysterious, dangerous and exiting―and the collected short fiction of Jo Walton is exemplary of the principle.”
―Cory Doctorow, author of *Little Brother *
“This collection of fiction and poetry from Hugo- and Nebula-winner Walton (The Just City) showcases her trademark focus on genre and philosophical questions . . . fans of the [short] form will have plenty to appreciate.”
―Publishers Weekly
Praise for Jo Walton
On Necessity
“Brilliant, compelling, and, frankly, unputdownable.”
―NPR
“As before, Walton has done a superb job of world building and character development, giving readers a novel that both stimulates and satisfies.”
―Booklist, starred review
“There’s more substance here than in many actual philosophy books.”
―Romantic Times
On Among Others
“A wonder and a joy.”
―The New York Times
“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 solid foundation of sense-of-wonder and what-if.”
―Publishers Weekly, starred review
“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. And then there’s the rare book, like Jo Walton’s Among Others, that’s both.”
―io9
On The King’s Peace
“The King’s Peace is the novel that The Mists of Avalon should have been.”
―Debra Doyle, author of School of Wizardry
“Walton writes with an authenticity that never loses heart, a rare combination in a genre where we are so often offered one or the other.”
―Robin Hobb, author of Assassin’s Apprentice
“There is not an ill-written sentence . . . Never lacks immediacy or loses its historical quality.”
―VOYA
About the Author
Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian author of science fiction, fantasy, and poetry. She has published thirteen novels, most recently Necessity. A fourteenth, Poor Relations is due out early in 2018. Walton has also published three poetry collections and an essay collection. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002, the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw in 2004, the Hugo and Nebula awards for Among Others in 2012, and in 2014 both the Tiptree Award for My Real Children and the Locus nonfiction award for What Makes This Book So Great. Walton comes from Wales, lived briefly in London, and now lives in Montreal, where the food and books are much better.
A strange Eritrean coin travels from lovers to thieves, gathering stories before meeting its match. Google becomes sentient and proceeds toward an existential crisis. An idealistic dancer on a generation ship makes an impassioned plea for creativity and survival. Three Irish siblings embark on an unlikely quest, stealing enchanted items via bad poetry, trickery, and an assist from the Queen of Cats.
With these captivating initial glimpses into her storytelling psyche, Jo Walton shines through subtle myths and wholly reinvented realities. Through eclectic stories, subtle vignettes, inspired poetry, and more, Walton soars with humans, machines, and magic—rising from the everyday into the universe itself.
**Review
Praise for *Starlings*
“An intriguing peek inside a fertile mind.”
―*Kirkus *
“Walton's diverse collection of stories and poems sparkles with originality and fun. The joy of this book will linger with me for a while.”
―Beth Cato, author of The Clockwork Dagger
“Starlings is a showcase of Jo Walton's diverse talents―a collection too varied to be summed up in a few words. From fairytale fantasy to hard science fiction, from laugh-aloud play script to finely crafted poetry, with a writing experiment or two thrown in, Starlings should delight Walton's existing fans and garner many new ones.”
―Juliet Marillier, author of Daughter of the Living Forest
“Stephen King once wrote that ‘a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger’―that is, sudden, pleasant, mysterious, dangerous and exiting―and the collected short fiction of Jo Walton is exemplary of the principle.”
―Cory Doctorow, author of *Little Brother *
“This collection of fiction and poetry from Hugo- and Nebula-winner Walton (The Just City) showcases her trademark focus on genre and philosophical questions . . . fans of the [short] form will have plenty to appreciate.”
―Publishers Weekly
Praise for Jo Walton
On Necessity
“Brilliant, compelling, and, frankly, unputdownable.”
―NPR
“As before, Walton has done a superb job of world building and character development, giving readers a novel that both stimulates and satisfies.”
―Booklist, starred review
“There’s more substance here than in many actual philosophy books.”
―Romantic Times
On Among Others
“A wonder and a joy.”
―The New York Times
“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 solid foundation of sense-of-wonder and what-if.”
―Publishers Weekly, starred review
“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. And then there’s the rare book, like Jo Walton’s Among Others, that’s both.”
―io9
On The King’s Peace
“The King’s Peace is the novel that The Mists of Avalon should have been.”
―Debra Doyle, author of School of Wizardry
“Walton writes with an authenticity that never loses heart, a rare combination in a genre where we are so often offered one or the other.”
―Robin Hobb, author of Assassin’s Apprentice
“There is not an ill-written sentence . . . Never lacks immediacy or loses its historical quality.”
―VOYA
About the Author
Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian author of science fiction, fantasy, and poetry. She has published thirteen novels, most recently Necessity. A fourteenth, Poor Relations is due out early in 2018. Walton has also published three poetry collections and an essay collection. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002, the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw in 2004, the Hugo and Nebula awards for Among Others in 2012, and in 2014 both the Tiptree Award for My Real Children and the Locus nonfiction award for What Makes This Book So Great. Walton comes from Wales, lived briefly in London, and now lives in Montreal, where the food and books are much better.
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- Publisher: Tachyon Publications
- Published: 23 Jan 2018
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