What Makes This Book So Great

What Makes This Book So GreatJo Walton is an award winning author of, inveterate reader of, and chronic re reader of science fiction and fantasy books. What Makes This Book So Great? is a selection of the best of her musings about her prodigious reading habit. Jo Walton's many subjects range from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. Among them, the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by

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collective names for the menagerie that mankind has hung its tales of myth and magic upon--but these aren't fairy tale creatures

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