Small Change by Jo Walton

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In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement
between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain's upper
classes never faltered, while British ships ferried undesirables" across the
Channel to board the cattle cars headed east.
In three brilliant novels set between the late 1940s and the early 1960s of this
alternate world, Jo Walton explores how a free society can become an unfree
one, how easily traditional powers-that-be can accommodate themselves to
tyranny, and what a difference a few courageous men and women can make.
Alternately charming, heartstopping, and astonishingly deft, this trilogy is a
work of total relevance to our modern age.
This new Tor Essentials edition of the Small Change trilogy includes a
new introduction by J. Bradford de Long, author of Slouching Toward
Utopia and one-time Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
If le Carre scares you, try Jo Walton. Of course her brilliant story of a
democracy selling itself out to fascism sixty years ago is just a mystery, just a
thriller, just a fantasy - of course we know nothing like that could happen now.
Don't we?" - Ursula K. Le Guin on Farthing
"Walton's use of a common genre template - this time, the race-against-time
thriller - allows her to develop (...)

JO WALTON won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her novelAmong Others
and the Tiptree Award for her novel My Real Children . Before that, she won
the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her novelTooth and
Claw won the World Fantasy Award. The novels of her Small Change
sequence - Farthing, Ha'penny, and Half a Crown - have won acclaim ranging
from national newspapers to the Romantic Times Critics' Choice Award. A
native of Wales, she lives in Montreal.

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On Sale: Sep 5/23
6.12 x 9.25 • 560 pages
9781250905956 • $27.99 • pb
Fiction / Alternative History