Andrew Goldstone finished reading Among Others by Jo Walton
I thought this was going to be for fun, but it turned out to be research-relevant, since it's a historical fiction about SF fandom in 1979-80: the position here is to embrace the American New Wave and almost entirely ignore the British. I wonder about that. Also it turned out to be a coda to my having taught a Le Guin course, since it riffs on Lathe of Heaven. Very clever in pushing the limits of "YA" convention (character-narrator, Bildung, school novel, very special protagonist, older sexy boyfriend, etc.) and in hewing to the norms of the fantastic (i.e., maintaining uncertainty about whether it is or isn't).