{"product_id":"9781472111616","title":"What Makes This Book So Great","description":"Author: Jo Walton\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781472111616\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 08 Jan 2015\u003cbr\u003ePages: 480 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJo Walton is an award-winning author of, inveterate reader of, and chronic re-reader of science fiction and fantasy books. \u003ci\u003eWhat Makes This Book So Great? \u003c\/i\u003eis a selection of the best of her musings about her prodigious reading habit.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  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  mainstream ; the under-appreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field s many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie s \u003ci\u003eMidnight s Children\u003c\/i\u003e; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  Over 130 essays in all, \u003ci\u003eWhat Makes This Book So Great \u003c\/i\u003eis an immensely engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919456682142,"sku":"ING-9781472111616","price":46.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781472111616.jpg?v=1782812046","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781472111616","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}