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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.

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essay "I Have No Time, and I Must Write" and her short fiction "Tuberculosis Bacteria Joins the UN," and a previously unpublished collection of Walton''s poetry, "The River and the Road."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.

An eye-opening and entertaining tale of social and financial precarity in the interplanetary future, brilliantly imagined and entirely pertinent to today. “Haunting character complexity that ultimately holds the reader captive to the tale.” —N. K. Jemisin, New York Times, onMy Real Children It''s the twenty-fourth century. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system—but for most of us, life is as precarious as it was in Dickensian England. And while individuals can change their sex at will, traditional gender roles are enforced with unyielding severity. Brothers Achille, Marcantonio, and Nore have been raised rich, but after their father spends the family fortune and puts a laser to his head, they’re forced to face facts. The wealthy Luke Bailey is willing to pay top dollar for what’s left of their estate, enough to buy Achille a commission in the space Navy. But only if Marcantonio and Nore will both become female—Marcantonio to marry Luke, and Nore to be their spinster housekeeper, for as long as Luke lives. Over the next two decades, the now-female Marcantonio and Nore struggle to make lives for themselves in the service of their wealthy keeper. Then the alien invasion arrives.

Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. 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 classes never faltered, while British ships ferried “undesirables” across the Channel to board the cattle cars headed east. In three brilliant novels set between the late 1940s and the early 1960s of this alternate world, Jo Walton explores how a free society can become an unfree one, how easily traditional powers-that-be can accommodate themselves to tyranny, and what a difference a few courageous men and women can make. Alternately charming, heartstopping, and astonishingly deft, this trilogy is a work of total relevance to our modern age. This new Tor Essentials edition of the Small Change trilogy includes a new introduction by J. Bradford de Long, author of Slouching Toward Utopia and one-time Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

From two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groundbreaking look at how SF and fantasy writing—and reading! Jo Walton and Ada Palmer are two of the most innovative and insightful writers to emerge in the SF and fantasy genres in this century. As writers of fiction they’ve each won multiple awards. As commenters on SF and fantasy in print and in visual media, they’ve both sparked new conversations that expanded our imaginations and understanding of how SF and fantasy work, and what more it could be doing. Now, in Diaspora of Time, Walton and Palmer have come together to write a book-length and supremely entertaining look at modern science fiction and fantasy, at how our genre is written and how it is read, that will join nonfiction works like Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Language of the Night, Samuel R. Delany’s The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, and Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud on the short shelf of titles essential to all readers of our genre. Subjects covered include the nature of genre itself, the history of SF publishing, the implicit contract between author and reader, the ways SF and fantasy disguise themselves as one another, what SF&F can learn from outside influences ranging from Shakespeare to Diderot to anime, the role of complicity in reading, the need to expand our “sphere of empathy”, and finally the need for optimism, the importance of rejecting “purity” culture, and the fact that the human story for centuries to come will be composed of of hard work.

Isles of the Mighty Standing stones. Headhunting and human sacrifice. Lusty kings and cattle-raiding queens. Naked warriors painted blue. Mysterious druids and crafty Sidhe. The Celtic world was full of strange enchantments and bloody battles. Enter a world of feasting and fighting, where magic is everywhere and glory is everything. In this book you''ll find: Tales of the ancient Irish and Welsh heroes. A wealth of Celtic character types, with plenty of new advantages and disadvantages - including gesas, the mystic prophecies and taboos that ruled the life and death of every Celt. The Druids: their arcane teachings and enigmatic magic. A new Druidic tree-magic system including the standard GURPS spells, plus new Celtic ones, grouped according to ancient natural categories. The uncanny powers of the Sidhe, children and fathers of gods, and rules for creating characters with Faerie blood and powers of their own . . . Willful weapons, magical and powerful, with their own personalities and motives. Return to a time when a battle or a wonder was around every corner, and the Otherworld was only a step away . . .

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.

Londres. 1949. Viola Lark a coupé les ponts avec sa noble famille pour faire carrière dans le théâtre. Quand on lui propose de jouer le rôle-titre dans un Hamlet modernisé où les genres ont été chamboulés, elle n''hésite pas une seconde. Mais l''euphorie est de courte durée, car une des actrices de la troupe vient de mourir dans l''explosion de sa maison de banlieue. Chargé de l''affaire, l''inspecteur Carmichael de Scotland Yard découvre vite que cette explosion n''est pas due à une des nombreuses bombes défectueuses du Blitz. Dans le même temps, Viola va cruellement s''apercevoir qu''elle ne peut échapper ni à la politique ni à sa famille dans une Angleterre qui embrasse la botte allemande et rampe lentement vers un fascisme de plus en plus assumé. Hamlet au paradis est le second volume de la trilogie du Subtil changement. On y retrouve l''inspecteur Carmichael, en fort mauvaise posture, ainsi que l''élégant mélange d''uchronie et de polar so british qui a fait le succès du Cercle de Farthing.

Londres. 1949. Viola Lark a coupé les ponts avec sa noble famille pour faire carrière dans le théâtre. Quand on lui propose de jouer le rôle-titre dans un Hamlet modernisé où les genres ont été chamboulés, elle n''hésite pas une seconde. Mais l''euphorie est de courte durée, car une des actrices de la troupe vient de mourir dans l''explosion de sa maison de banlieue. Chargé de l''affaire, l''inspecteur Carmichael découvre vite que cette explosion n''est pas due à une des nombreuses bombes défectueuses du Blitz. Dans le même temps, Viola va cruellement s''apercevoir qu''elle ne peut échapper ni à la politique ni à sa famille dans une Angleterre qui embrasse la botte allemande et rampe lentement vers un fascisme de plus en plus assumé. Hamlet au paradis est le deuxième volume de la trilogie du Subtil changement. On y retrouve l''inspecteur Carmichael, en fort mauvaise posture, ainsi que l''élégant mélange d''uchronie et de polar so british qui a fait le succès du Cercle de Farthing.

Bon Agornin a eu une longue et belle vie, mais sa fin est proche, il le sent. Étendu près de son trésor, il attend la mort. Toute sa famille est réunie pour vivre avec lui ses derniers instants : ses deux fils et ses trois filles, ainsi que son gendre, l''Illustre Daverak qui héritera de son domaine. Bon Agornin tient absolument à se confesser à son fils aîné, il veut partir absous de ses péchés, d''autant que ceux-ci sont immenses : afin de pouvoir devenir un dragon de soixante-dix pieds de long, capable de voler et de cracher du feu, il a dévoré son frère et sa soeur - les carcasses de boeuf ne suffisent pas pour mener à bien une telle entreprise... "Je n''ai pas eu le choix", se justifie-t-il, dans son dernier souffle. Avant d''être dévoré à son tour par ses héritiers, comme le veut la tradition chez les dragons. Hommage aux romans victoriens d''Anthony Trollope, délicieuse chronique d''une société de cannibales à écailles, Les Griffes et les Crocs a reçu le World Fantasy Award. Vous n''avez jamais lu un roman de dragons" comme celui-ci.

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 ?

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.

Three months before her eighteenth birthday, Myfanwy Morris is sucked into the affairs of a mystical secret agency, Chancelhouse, as it tries to reinvent itself for the 21st century. All is not what it seems, and danger lies all around - and within ... "If JG Ballard had written an Enid Blyton girl''s own adventure on Facebook under the influence of mind-altering drugs, he might have ended up with something like Invocation. Or maybe not. Jo L Walton''s hallucinatory anti-fantasy fantasy is a kind of Harry Potter for the Contemporary Poet, a neurological black comedy, a Clockwork Orange for the 21st century, a satire in which contemporary Britain dissolves in the acids of the hyperreal, a paranoid critique, a nonsense that constantly threatens an ambush by alarming lucidity. Being like everything, it''s not like anything else. ''Anything that is unlike anything else is sad,'' says one of Walton''s uncharacters. Maybe. But in this case, it''s also perilously funny. Did I say it was gloriously written? Perhaps that''s how Walton gets away with it. I''m awaiting the final instalment with pleasurable trepidation." - Alison Croggon ". . . a hyperreal comic thriller and, I''m pretty sure, one of the most urgent, smart and exciting fictional projects of the moment . . ." - Colin Herd, 3am Magazine

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.

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