Jo Walton

Jo Walton, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Among Others, will read from and discuss her new book, The Just City. Ada Palmer, Professor of History at the University of Chicago, will sing.

At 57th St Books.

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About The Just City:

Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, The Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future—all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager for knowledge, ready to strive to be her best self. The teacher Maia was once Ethel, a young Victorian lady of much learning and few prospects, who prayed to Pallas Athene in an unguarded moment during a trip to Rome—and, in an instant, found herself in The Just City with grey-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her. Meanwhile, Apollo—stunned by the realization that there are things mortals understand better than he does—has arranged to live a human life, and has come to the City as one of the children. He knows his true identity, and conceals it from his peers. For this lifetime, he is prone to all the troubles of being human. Then, a few years in, Sokrates arrives—the same Sokrates recorded by Plato himself—to ask all the troublesome questions you would expect. What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell.

About Jo Walton:

Jo Walton has published eleven novels, three poetry collections and an essay collection, with a twelfth novel and another essay collection due out later in 2015. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002, the World Fantasy Award in 2004 for Tooth and Claw, and the Hugo and Nebula awards in 2012 for Among Others. Her 2014 novel My Real Children won the American Librarians Association's RUSA award. She comes from Wales but lives in Montreal where the food and books are much better. She writes science fiction and fantasy in many different subgenres, reads a lot, talks about books, and eats great food. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and write a book every year. The Just City, a fantasy novel about gods, time travellers and robots setting up Plato's Republic, is her most recent novel.

About Ada Palmer:

Ada Palmer is an historian, a writer of science fiction and fantasy, and a composer. She teaches at the University of Chicago, focusing on the Renaissance and the relationship between ideas and intellectual change. Her book Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance was published by Harvard University Press in 2014, and her first novel Dogs of Peace, which begins a four book sequence, is coming out from Tor in 2015. Her Viking mythology music CD Sundown: Whispers of Ragnarok, has just been released.

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Multiple-award winning author Jo Walton’s My Real Children is “an alternate history, in which a woman with dementia struggles to remember her two contradictory lives. Patricia made a choice in 1949 and thereafter not just her personal life but the worlds she lives in diverge. The chapters alternate between her life as Pat and her life as Tricia. It’s a book about life and love and choices and moonbases.” What Makes This Book So Great, a collection of her thoughtful and appreciative posts about speculative fiction works from Tor.com, was released earlier this year.

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My Real Children

Walton’s new novel, set in 2015, is the story of an elderly woman who remembers two completely different versions of her life, each with its own loves and losses, sorrows and triumphs.

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The January 29th discussion focuses on Jo Walton's Among Others.

The San Diego Book Discussion Group is led by Fearless Leader Christine. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend – it’s the perfect opportunity for readers to branch out and find new favorites!

Attendees receive 20% off of the current book club selection!

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Science fiction/fantasy-kongress.

Gästande författare:

Jo Walton, Nebula- och Hugo-vinnare 2012 för romanen Among Others som är delvis självbiografisk och beskriver hur man kommer in i fandom. Hon har tidigare skrivit fantasy och alternativhistorier, och hennes senaste roman, Turnaround, skildrar ett generations-rymdskepp.

Lavie Tidhar, författare till den prisnominerade romanen Osama. Han har också skrivit flera andra romaner samt redigerat antologier med internationella science fiction- och fantasy-noveller. (anglemark)… (más)

A Room of One's Own is once again thrilled to host WisCon's kickoff event, a reception, reading, and book-signing for Guests of Honor Jo Walton and Joan Slonczewski. The reception begins at 6pm, with the readings starting at 6:30pm. Wiscon is the world's leading feminist science fiction convention, held May 23-27 at the Concourse Hotel in Madison. The Guest of Honor reception at Room is free and open to the public--you may attend this event reading even if you are not attending WisCon!

To learn more about the convention or to register, visit WisCon's website at wiscon.info. A Room of One's Own will have a booth selling your favorite feminist science fiction in the WisCon Dealer's Room, so you can visit us there as well as in our store!

Jo Walton is the author of Hugo and Nebula-award-winning novel Among Others, as well as several other novels. She comes from Wales but lives in Montreal where the books and food are more varied. She reads a lot and writes about old books on Tor.com. She is married to Dr. Emmet O'Brien and they live together in a charming but cluttered apartment in walking distance of the metro. Her grown up son and his girlfriend and two cats live in their own apartment nearby. It worries her slightly from time to time that while the world remains so imperfect her life is so exactly as she always dreamed it might be.

Joan Slonczewski researches bacteria in extreme environments and writes hard science fiction about women of color as scientists, and diverse sexualities. Her latest book, The Highest Frontier(Tor Books, September 2011) depicts a Cuban-American woman going to college in a space habitat. Slonczewski's Campbell-award winning classic, A Door into Ocean (Tor Books, 1986; Campbell Award) creates a world covered entirely by ocean, inhabited by an all-female race of purple people who use genetic engineering to defend their unique ecosystem. Slonczewski's early work was inspired by the works of Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Anne McCaffrey, and Tanith Lee. Slonczewski teaches biology at Kenyon College, including the notorious course "Biology in Science Fiction."

Learn more about the authors at WisCon's website!

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