Tooth and Claw

Extract: I saw Jo Walton at Powell's on the promo tour for her latest book. She's a warm person with a smart sense of humor. Before the evening began I saw her with her trademark hat, perusing the novelty socks carousel in the non-book merchandise area, recognizing her from her profile on the Worlds Without End site as I nearly ran into the literary action figure display, rubber-necking like a star-struck tweener. While of course there's no reason an award winning author shouldn't be looking at fun socks, the juxtaposition was startling and caught me by surprise, and so did her amazing novel "Tooth and Claw"...