Sunlit Uplands - by Jo Walton (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Sunlit Uplands is an electrifying found family road trip across a multiverse of Everything Everywhere All At Once from Hugo Award winning author Jo Walton.

What makes our world unique in the multiverse?

How much would really change if people preferred lime to orange, or Al Gore was elected in 2000?

Would the other you be really that different if they'd been born a girl, or left-handed, or in Iowa?

When Sam's mother explains that their family can move between the worlds, answers at least as many questions as it raises.

But Sam can never figure out how to worldwalk, even though all the other Sams in the other worlds can. So when disaster strikes while they're left alone, it's all on Sam to figure out what to do...

Review Quotes

Praise for Jo Walton:

"I am in awe of this book. Jo Walton is a writer's writer. I couldn't stop turning pages, marveling at the unexpected, vastly rewarding twists and turns of her misty Serenissima with its rogues and beggars, seers and sailors, and genders of all description. Whatever she invites us along on, we find ourselves wiser than when we began, with more insight into our own world through the one she's crafted for us." - Ellen Kushner, author of Swordspoint, on Everbody's Perfect

"Everybody's Perfect is a beautifully graceful fantasy that floats through the enchanted canals of a Platonic Venice in which time, physical reality, and narrative move in mysterious ways. It's not quite like anything I've seen before and I loved it." - Delia Sherman on Everbody's Perfect

"An intimate fantasy, filled with ordinary people living everyday lives in an extraordinary place, and it drew me in immediately. It's a story where the happy ending depends on the ability of the people in the story to believe in its possibility, which feels weirdly relevant even though it's about communities of otherworldly aliens living in a fantasy Venice." - Naomi Kritzer on Everbody's Perfect

"Ambitious... personal and affecting. This fascinates." - Publishers Weekly on Everbody's Perfect

"Readers who loved the mixing of worlds in Marie Brennan's Driftwood or the world-crossing time-travel of Charlie Stross's "Merchant Princes" series will enjoy Walton's latest novel, as will anyone who has ever been caught up in the magic of the Carnival of Venice." - Library Journal, starred review on Everbody's Perfect

"Funny, acute, and impassioned."--Ursula K. Le Guin on Among Others

"Or What You Will is a Jo Walton book. Which is to say--it's a joy and a revelation, and I never wanted it to end." --Rainbow Rowell

"Rendered with Walton's usual power and beauty...It's this haunting character complexity that ultimately holds the reader captive to the tale."--N. K. Jemisin, The New York Times, on My Real Children

"A deeply poignant, richly imagined book...What most novels do only once, My Real Children does twice."--Lev Grossman, Publishers Weekly

"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 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

About the Author

JO WALTON won the Best Novel Hugo and Nebula Awards for Among Others (2011) and the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw (2003). She is the only writer other than Ursula K. Le Guin to win Best Novel in all three awards. Aside from her many other acclaimed novels, she has written extensively about SF and fantasy for Tor.com and other venues for over two decades. She lives in Montreal.