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What Makes This Book So Great

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

What Makes This Book So Great

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About the book

A unique book, from the incomparable Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Among Others, Jo Walton: What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Fantasy and SF is a collection of brilliant reassessments of the classics - and the forgotten gems - of modern fantasy and SF.

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9781472111616

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Little, Brown Book Group

Published year

2015

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1

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What Makes This Book So Great

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Paperback

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