Books by Jo Walton
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The Just City (Thessaly)
'Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent.' One day, in a moment of philosophical puckishness, the time-travelling goddess Pallas Athene decides to put... See More
Half A Crown (Small Change Trilogy Book 3)
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 class never faltered, while British ships ferried "undesirables" across the... See More
Or What You Will
Or What You Will is an utterly original novel about how stories are brought forth from Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jo Walton. He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy... See More
Necessity: A Novel (Thessaly Book 3)
2017 Sunburst Award for Adult Fiction Finalist Necessity: the sequel to the acclaimed The Just City and The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton's tales of gods, humans, and what they have to learn from one another. More than... See More
Lent: A Novel of Many Returns
From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of the man who remade fifteenth-century Florence -- in all its astonishing strangeness Young Girolamo's life is a series of... See More
An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000
Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, An Informal History of the Hugos is a book about the renowned science fiction award for the many who enjoyed Jo Walton's previous collection of writing from Tor.com, the... See More
A Burden Shared: A Tor.com Original
What we do for one another is a mystery. A Tor.com original. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. See More
Sleeper: A Tor.Com Original
History is a thing we make -- in more senses than one. And from more directions. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. See More
Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction: A Tor.Com Original (Small Change)
It's 1960, and the Axis powers dominate the world. Life goes on, because, as we see in "Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction," history is driven both by big events and by small temptations... Following the... See More
The Prize in the Game (Tir Tanagiri Book 3)
On the island of Tir Isarnagiri, Gods stalk the land, laying subtle but inescapable dooms upon the feuding kingdoms there. The lives of four young friends - Conal, Emer, Darag, and Ferdia - have been intertwined since... See More
The King's Name (Tir Tanagiri Book 2)
Years have passed since the Jarnish invasion, and Sulien ap Gwien has worked tirelessly alongside her lord, King Urdo, to restore the King's Peace to Tir Tanagiri. But the man Sulien believes to be the greatest of his time... See More
The Philosopher Kings (Thessaly)
Twenty years have passed since the goddess Athene founded the Just City. The god Apollo is still living there, albeit in human form. Now married and the father of several children, the man/god struggles to cope when tragedy... See More
Shoreline of Infinity 8½ Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition: Science Fiction Magazine
This is a special edition produced in partnership with the Edinburgh International Book Festival for 2017. We have fantastic sci-fi stories, articles and poems from Pippa Goldschmidt, Adam Roberts, Ken MacLeod, Ada Palmer... See More
My Real Children
The day Mark called, Patricia Cowan's world split in two. The phone call. His question. Her answer. A single word. 'Yes.' 'No.' It is 2015 and Patricia Cowan is very old. 'Confused today' read the notes clipped to the... See More
Ha'penny (Small Change Trilogy Book 2)
In Ha'penny, England has completed its slide into fascist dictatorship. The last hopes of democracy seem extinguished. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb. The brilliant but compromised Inspector Carmichael of Scotland... See More
Farthing (Small Change Trilogy Book 1)
Eight years after they overthrew Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler, the upper-crust families of the "Farthing set" are gathered for a weekend retreat. Among them is estranged Farthing scion Lucy... See More
The King's Peace (Tir Tanagiri Book 1)
Sulien ap Gwien is seventeen years old when the Jarnish invasion begins, and strong enough to match any one of their raiders in battle. But when they do come, she finds herself unarmed and at their mercy. As she watches her... See More
What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Fantasy and SF
Jo 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... See More
Among Others
'It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.' Fifteen-year-old Morwenna lives in Wales with her twin sister and a mother who spins dark magic for ill. One day, Mori and... See More
Tooth and Claw
A family of dragons gathers on the occasion of the death of their father, the elder Bon Agornin. As is custom, they must eat the body. But even as Bon's last remains are polished off, his sons and daughters must all jostle... See More
TFF-X: Ten years of The Future Fire: A speculative fiction anthology
X for ten years, X for marking out a spot in the genre, X for the unknown variable that changes the status quo. This anthology is a mix of reprints from the first decade of The Future Fire magazine, and new, experimental... See More
Lightspeed Magazine, July 2014
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy... See More
Story Behind the Book : Volume 1 (Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction)
"Story Behind the Book : Volume 1" collects nearly 40 non-fiction essays on writing and editing speculative fiction written by some of the most exciting authors and editors. Essays cover everything from getting an initial... See More
Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project: A Tor.com Original
Tor.com's science fiction and fantasy flash fiction collection originally published in 2017 inspired by the now-iconic statement, now available in e-book format. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless... See More
Visiting Friends: Or, What I Did On My Summer Vacation
In the summer of 2019, fantasy writer Jo Walton set out on a European road trip to visit the homes of some of her friends, all of them dead for centuries: Voltaire, Diderot, Petrarch, Pico della Mirandola... On the same days... See More
Thought Against Tomorrow: New and Collected Poems
Here is a small piece of my soul I pulled out and shaped like this. It is still bleeding, but only a little It won't mess your hands much And you can wash them after. For years Hugo and Nebula award winning writer Jo Walton... See More