Or What You Will

Jo Walton

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St Martins/Tor
28 September 2021

"He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god.

But ""he"" is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, 73, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with him for years.

But Sylvia won't live forever, any more than any human does. And he's trapped inside her cave of bone, her hollow of skull. When she dies, so will he.

Now Sylvia is starting a new novel, a fantasy for adult readers, set in Thalia, the Florence-resembling imaginary city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published decades before. Of course he's got a part in it. But he also has a notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her."

By: Jo Walton
Imprint: St Martins/Tor
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 270g
ISBN: 9781250309006
ISBN 10: 125030900X
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 28 September 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

JO WALTON won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012 for her novel Among Others. Before that, her novel Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. A native of Wales, Walton lives in Montreal.

Reviews for Or What You Will

Walton shines, as she always does, in the small and hurtful and glorious business of interpersonal relationships...this book about philosophy, history, gender and freedom also manages to be a spectacular coming-of-age tale that encompasses everything from courtroom dramas to sexual intrigue. --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing on The Just City A remarkable novel of ideas...Superb. In the end, the novel does more than justice to the idea of the Just City. --Booklist, starred review, on The Just City