An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton

Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel, and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. It was nominated for a Nebula Award, a Quill Award, the John W. Her next novel, Tooth and Claw (2003) was intended as a novel Anthony Trollope could have written, but about dragons rather than humans.įarthing was her first science fiction novel, placing the genre of the cozy mystery firmly inside an alternative history in which the United Kingdom made peace with Adolf Hitler before the involvement of the United States in World War II. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002. Walton's first three novels, The King's Peace (2000), The King's Name (2001), and The Prize in the Game (2002) were all fantasy and set in the same world, which is based on Arthurian Britain and the Táin Bó Cúailnge's Ireland. Her poem 'The Lurkers Support Me in E-Mail' is widely quoted on it and in other online arguments, often without her name attached. Walton was also active in online science fiction fandom, especially in the Usenet groups .written and .fandom. Before that, she had been published in a number of role-playing game publications, such as Pyramid, mostly in collaboration with her husband at the time, Ken Walton, co-founder of the Cakebread & Walton games company. Walton has been writing since she was 13, but her first novel was not published until 2000. Walton speaks Welsh: 'It's the second language of my family of origin, my grandmother was a well known Welsh scholar and translator, I studied it in school from five to sixteen, I have a ten year old's fluency on grammar and vocab but no problem whatsoever with pronunciation.' Writing career A collection of her articles were published in What Makes This Book So Great (2014), which won the Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction. Walton is also known for her non-fiction, including book reviews and SF commentary in the magazine Tor.com. Her fantasy novel Lifelode won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award, and her alternate history My Real Children received the 2015 Tiptree Award. Other works by Walton include the Small Change series, in which she blends alternate history with the cozy mystery genre, comprising Farthing, Ha'penny and Half a Crown.

She is best known for the fantasy novel Among Others, which won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012, and Tooth and Claw, a Victorian era novel with dragons which won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. Jo Walton (born 1964) is a Welsh and Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. Fantasy, science fiction, alternate history

An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton