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Name: Among Others

Author: Jo Walton
Year: 2011
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Popularity: 5.4
Genres/categories: Fantasy, Award winners, Science fiction

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ISBN:
9780765331724
0765331721
Winner of the Hugo award for Best Novel in 2012.
Winner of the Nebula award for Best Novel in 2012.
Winner of the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) for Best Fantasy Novel in 2011.
Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2012.
Winner of the Kurd Lasswitz Prize for Foreign Novel in 2014.

Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and science fiction, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.

Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she and her twin sister played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins, but her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. When her mother tries to bend the spirits to dark ends with deadly results, Mori is sent away and must try to come to terms with what has happened without falling prey to the darkness.
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