Jo Walton
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- Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her novel Ha'penny was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award. [1]
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- On January 8, 2004, an article about Jo Walton was created on Wikipedia. [2]
- In May 2009, the author accidentally became part of Race Fail 2009 when she made a blog post about Patricia C. Wrede's book The Thirteenth Child.
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[edit] Race!Fail 2009
A new chapter in 2009's RaceFail began to break out in May over Patricia C. Wrede's book The Thirteenth Child. As described in Jo Walton's blog at the Tor website, the book presupposes an alternative universe "which is full of magic, and where America ('Columbia') was discovered empty of people but full of dangerous animals, many of them magical."[3] Commenters on the blog post about the book expressed displeasure over the idea of wiping out the existence of Native Americans from history for the sake of a fantasy novel. Lois McMaster Bujold got into the discussion defending Wrede and the book, angering and disappointing some of the critics who then accused her of RaceFail. Bujold stated in response[4] to one critic who had not read the book:
- "You should read the book. It's YA and quite short, and then we could be discussing the real book and not the distorted shadow of it that apparently sprang up in your head from the description.
- The book actually began with a contemplation of the what-if question, 'What would happen if the megafauna survived into historic times...?' The theory presently being argued in archeology is that the pre-Columbian settlers wiped out said megafauna, and that's the one Pat chose to follow up; so if one wants mammoths and short-faced bears and terror birds, the Bering land bridge human immigration needed not to have taken place, 13,000 years back. From that, the rest followed, q.s. to the limits of a necessarily slim volume."
Discussion then began to spread about the matter throughout LiveJournal and Dreamwidth Studios metafandom, much as it had earlier in the year.[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11],[12],[13],[14],[15],[16]
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