Among Others

Extract: It's great that a Hugo winner is a book about a science fiction fan. I think that the attraction to science fiction, for many of us, begins when we're young, feeling outcast, different, or otherwise disenfranchised from the mainstream. We find it a solace, a place where we can believe that there's something else out there, something better, something more real than our cruel reality. The main character of this story is one of these fans, a teenage girl whose turns to SF to escape from the cruelty and craziness in her life...