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	Review: Jo Walton and the Blood of Kings
		Jo Walton is a professional writer of modules for fantasy role playing games, and her first fantasy novel, The King's Peace will be published in early 2001.
		Jo Walton's poetry, posted on her Blood of Kings website, comprises twenty-six poems, many of them mid length narrative works, drawing on themes from Greco-Roman and Celtic mythology, medieval romance, and historical situations ranging from the fall of Carthage to the Saxon conquest of Britain.
		Walton uses this rhythm in some parts of her poem, but she allows practically any arrangement of accented and unaccented syllables, giving the form something of the rhythmic flexibility of alliterative meter.
	alliteration.net /Walton.htm (2222 words)

	Book Note: Jo Walton, Tooth and Claw
		Jo says some straight-forward things about some of the origins of the story in her dedication; in particular, that she wanted to investigate a society in which some of the Victorian beliefs about women, especially biological beliefs, were actually true.
		As always in Jo's books, the background is both interesting and confusing.
		Like everything I've read of Jo's, this is a very interesting book, well worth reading.
	www.dd-b.net /dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/data/waltonj-toothandclaw.html (597 words)

	Jo Walton, The King's Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jo Walton's first published novel, The King's Peace, helped earn her the 2002 John W. Campbell award for best new writer.
		Walton borrows the source material to weave her own story.
		Jo Walton's home page is here, including maps, essays and commentary on Sulien's world.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_walton_kingspeace.html (1208 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Prize in the Game
		The Prize in the Game is Jo Walton's third novel and although set in the same world as her previous books, Walton claims it can be read without recourse to those books, despite growing out of a brief passage in her debut novel, The King's Peace.
		Walton even glosses over most of the combat sequences, relating the aftermath when she could easily have shown the occurrence.
		Perhaps because Walton is juggling four viewpoint characters and several secondary characters, she doesn't have enough time to fully flesh out any of their characters or really show their relationships to each other.
	www.sfsite.com /04a/pg149.htm (653 words)

	[Australian Wind Music Publications - About Us] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mark Walton is a highly respected and popular figure in the Australian and New Zealand musical scene and widely acknowledged in many parts of the world as a leading clarinet and saxophone performer, inspiring teacher and charismatic musician.
		Studying under the guidance of Jangoo Chapkhana, a pianist, Jo under took tuition in saxophone, clarinet and piano and was an active performer in local festivals and concerts.
		The year 2001 brought Jo to Sydney to complete her Bachelor of Performance degree with Mark Walton at the Sydney Conservatorium in 2002 and is currently completing a Masters of Music Performance degree at the same institution.
	www.cia.com.au /awmp/about.htm (912 words)

	Jo Walton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jo Walton (born in 1964) is a fantasy and science fiction writer.
		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.
		GURPS Celtic Myth (With Ken Walton) (1995, roleplaying supplement)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jo_Walton (111 words)

	Jo Walton, Farthing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jo Walton has a knack for genre fiction with a twist.
		Walton doesn't rival her models Josephine Tey or Dorothy Sayers in the mechanics of mystery writing -- the puzzle itself struck me as rather loose and sloppy.
		The focus is more on the characters, and there she succeeds in gaining our sympathy for both protagonists, who, as they make their "fantastic" situation real and present to us, call for us to ask what their dilemma means for us here and now.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_walton_farthing.html (543 words)

	Amazon.com: The Prize in the Game: Books: Jo Walton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Walton sure-handedly evokes a primitive realm where the Otherworld seamlessly impinges upon reality, bringing sounds, smells, sorrow, hatred and burning love to life as powerfully as the thrust of a barbed spear.
		As Walton develops her alternate Celts, however, what with their convoluted politics and quick tempers, it sometimes seems that the miffed deity is superfluous.
		Walton handles her delicately and is able to make you interested in her story.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765302632?v=glance (2639 words)

	Amazon.com: The King's Name (The King's Peace, Book 2): Books: Jo Walton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And I was relieved to note that Jo Walton (thank goodness) has not bothered to include her version of the 'doomed' love affair between Guinevere and Lancelot (am I the only person bored with this "love" story?).
		Walton's characterization is wonderful, with the many different people populating this book having enough distinction that it isn't that hard to tell them apart.
		Walton does a good job of keeping the uncertainty in the question of whether or not Morthu is a sorcerer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031287653X?v=glance (3300 words)

	Review: The King's Peace by Jo Walton
		Walton gets down to the parts that I do find interesting, namely the feel of the times following the collapse of Roman influence, the struggle to define a nation, and the questions of how people view and support their rulers and kings.
		At first, I was wondering if Walton still had too many bastards and illegitimate heirs in the story, but after further consideration, I think she got it about right.
		I won't recommend it fully because of the pacing issues and somewhat difficult writing, but if you like medieval war novels, this is one that shows its research well while still adding enough of a twist to be satisfying as fantasy.
	www.eyrie.org /~eagle/reviews/books/0-765-34327-4.html (896 words)

	Review of Jo Walton's Tooth and Claw
		Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton, Tor, 2003, 253 pp.
		As Walton points out in her opening notes: "It has to be admitted that a number of the core axioms of the Victorian novel are just wrong.
		Walton's Tooth and Claw was a pleasant surprise for me because I came to the book with low expectations.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/toothclaw.htm (1031 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tooth and Claw: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Walton says this book is "the result of wondering what a world would be like if the axioms of the sentimental Victorian novel were inescapable laws of biology." It is also something truly different in the line of the novel.
		Walton tells the tale with the gentleness and humour that, I imagine, most Victorian novels have.
		Walton does a great job with all of these characters, making us care about them and letting them stretch the bonds of their Victorian roles without losing the basics of them.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0765349094 (1167 words)

	Jo Walton: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jo Walton (born in 1964) is a fantasy fantasy quick summary:
		In literature, fantasy is a form of speculative fiction in which physical laws differ from our own through a reason for which no scientific explanation is offered,...
		Realms of Sorcery (With Ken Walton) (2002, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/jo_walton.htm (585 words)

	Billy Jo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tragedy struck the Walton and wagon train families in October 1999 with the passing of BILL WALTON of Haltom City, TX.
		Bill is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Linda Jo and Rick Dielman of Austin; sons Jay Lee Walton and Dan Ray Walton of Fort Worth; brothers, Leon G.
		Walton, Jim R. Walton and Bob G. Walton, all of Fort Worth; grandchildren, Neil Dielman, Jennifer Dielman and Chad Walton.
	www.phudpucker.com /tfwta/wtmemorial/waltb.htm (525 words)

	Fortean Bureau--Jo Walton
		Jo Walton is the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
		Her latest novel is Tooth and Claw, Tor, November 2003, a sentimental Victorian novel where all the characters are dragons who eat each other.
		She is presently working on a version of Mansfield Park set on Mars, a fantasy novel about what happens when your grandmother comes back from heaven
	www.forteanbureau.com /april2004/walton.html (98 words)

	The Clarion-Ledger: Mississippi's News Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Josephine (Jo) Walton, 70, a wonderful, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, died Monday, February 9, 2004 at Rankin Medical Center in Brandon.
		Jo was a native of Copiah County and a longtime resident of Pearl.
		Survivors include her husband, Billie D. Walton of Pearl; daughter, Susan Marie Ford of Richland; sons, Joseph Karl Walton and Jerry Dorian Walton of Pearl; grandsons, Danny and Bryan Ford, Timothy Harrell and Jeremy Walton; granddaughters, Karla and Brooke Walton; great-grandchildren, Danielle, Teddy and Noah Ford and Christian Walley.
	www.clarionledger.com /news/0402/11/2004021136.html (244 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Tooth and Claw
		This respectable lady had her sights on a daughter-in-law who would bring a fortune, if not titled relatives, to her marriage with her son; the son wanted to marry Lucy, the penniless sister of his best friend, Mark Robards, a parson.
		Yes, religion plays a part in Jo Walton's work, as it does in the Victorian novel, but Walton does not settle for the easy parody of organized religion, made up of fools and fakes, that has become a standard in much genre fiction today.
		Walton's dragons, despite their titles, their trains, their fancy hats, are not the literary equivalent of cheery plush toys.
	www.sfsite.com /11b/tc164.htm (1201 words)

	clew's reviews: a book log: Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
		Yonge was pinned into a narrow ecclesiastical taste; her good women accordingly must renounce their own gifts; villainesses are interesting but far too rare.
		I doubt it's what Walton meant, I don't remember anything that seemed a commentary on modern life or even from a modern perspective.
		I wonder who the oldest woman I know is, because I would like to ask her just how innocent it was actually possible to be, about something that would shape one's whole life.
	www.tenhand.com /clew/blog/archives/000274.html (897 words)

	The King's Peace by Jo Walton (Olson) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The story is a parallel story of Arthur - it's almost as if Walton took what we know of 6th century Britain and changed all the nouns, leaving everything else alone.
		He died by stoning and his disciples wear a stone on a cord around their necks to signify their belief.
		Walton deserves very great credit for making this all believable and realistic and magical all at once.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Olson/KingsPeace.html (335 words)

	Jo Walton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jo Walton is a bit of a new thing.
		Her first novel was published in the fall of 2000, and the third part of it is due out in October of 2001.
		Walton has a very calm approach to the fantastic in this book, and is very matter-of-fact about it, giving the book a feel that is nothing like other books you might think to compare it to.
	www.cloudnet.com /~jldomini/walton.html (267 words)

	SS > SF > book reviews > Jo Walton
		This is the story of Sulien ap Gwien, a warrior fighting with High King Urdo to restore Peace to the land of Tir Tanagiri.
		So I was just wondering, Jo, if you're willing to say: did you decline to have anything more revealing than that printed, or did you miss a deadline for submitting a photo and a blurb, or did Tor mess up, or what?
		In particular, as noted in the preface quoted above, the female dragons do have many of the qualities of Victorian novel heroines -- which might be slightly grating were it not skillfully countered by their dragonish consumption of great hunks of bloody meat at most meals.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/books/w/walton.htm (743 words)

	At the Bottom of the Garden - a short story by Jo Walton
		Meanwhile, at the bottom of the garden, next door's cat was eating the remains of the fairy.
		Jo Walton lives in Swansea, South Wales, with her son, and on some of the rec.arts.sf hierarchy of newsgroups with an assortment of interesting companions.
		Jo Walton 's Home Page - Interstichia; Poetry; RASFW FAQ; etc.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /stories/garden.htm (681 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - King's Name by Jo Walton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The King's Name is the sequel to The King's Peace, which told of the early years of warrior woman Sulien ap Gwien, and her deep friendship with king Urdo.
		However, Walton gives her readers more depth of fantasy than in a typical re-telling of the Arthurian legend (which is only glimpsed in some of the larger events here).
		Walton's world-building includes her seers' insights into a panorama of parallel worlds...
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=403 (630 words)

	Review of THE PRIZE IN THE GAME by Jo Walton
		Author Jo Walton (see more BooksForABuck.com reviews of novels by Walton) has taken a brief incident from her earlier novel THE KING'S NAME (see the BooksForABuck.com review) and explained the background and the personalities behind it.
		With her love for Conal, she is a biased observer in the contest for kingship, but gradually begins to see Darag's importance.
		Walton gives the reader a bit of a twist by making the reader sympathize with Conal and Emer, but then having Darag as the critical figure in the novel.
	www.booksforabuck.com /sfpages/sf_03/prize_game.html (528 words)

	Bluejo's Journal
		My favourite of her books though is Tourists.) And not only does she like Farthing, but she starts the review by indicating that she's liked some of my other books too.
		It starts: "Is there anything Jo Walton can't write?" There's a simple answer to that, which is that I can't write the same thing twice.
		But it's true that I can write any kind of thing as long as I have the mode.
	papersky.livejournal.com (2981 words)

	Review: The King's Name by Jo Walton
		It focuses on politics and religion more than on the details of the combat, and is a better book for the change.
		The trouble, of course, is that this is a story of civil war and tragedy, and so I spent about half the book extremely angry and frustrated (and Walton writes a truly nasty villain), but even with tragedy I came away with a feeling of closure.
		I also liked how the great events of war and treachery are brought firmly down to earth, with bickering and negotiation over peace treaties, personal rivalries, incompetent kings, complicated meshes of relations and races, worries of who to put on the thrones of various regions, and a refreshing lack of idolization of the Arthur equivalent.
	www.eyrie.org /~eagle/reviews/books/0-765-34340-1.html (614 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Tooth and Claw: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		David Roy has done a superb job on the plot so I won't begin there, but suffice to say Jo Walton got the tone of the Victorian novel to a tee.
		Her basic premise is that Victorian novels were full of people who didn't, in real life, act that way.
		Customers who bought books by Jo Walton also bought books by these authors:
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0765349094 (1160 words)

	Alibris: Jo Walton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this, the second part of Walton's saga about King Urdo and his troubles, the warrior Sulien ap Gwien, joined by new allies, continues her struggle against the Jamish.
		Provides information about different types of trains, including steam locomotives, electric trains, trams, and modern high-speed trains.
		Study Aids > LSAT (Law School Admission Test)
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Jo_Walton (312 words)

	Alibris: Jo Walton
		But it is more than a research method; by...
		by Kate Petty, Kate Petty, Jo Moore (Illustrator)
		Walton, Lewis R. Walton, Kimm A. Walton, Ken
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Walton,Jo (312 words)

	Neither Fish Nor Fowl - Interview: Jo Walton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jo Walton has a long history as an SF fan and is quite well known for her thoughtful and thought-provoking posts in SF newsgroups.
		Her first novel, an alternate world fantasy called The King's Peace, was published in September by Tor Books.
		I think that's because this really is background when you're reading it, what you're reading is Sulien's life story, and to her it's all immediate and important, the story doesn't stop to talk about this sort of thing, it gets on with the exciting business of things happening.
	www.niribanimeso.org /eng/intvu/jwint.html (2181 words)

	Fiction: Unreliable Witness, by Jo Walton
		I'll tell you anything about any aliens that come to visit me, and you stop stealing my things.
		Jo Walton lives in Wales and on selected parts of Usenet.
		She has published stories in Odyssey and Ad Hoc, and poetry in Artemis.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20010115/unreliable_witness.shtml (1910 words)

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