If you loved how Walton’s short Tor.com posts bounce from Miles Vorkosigan’s misadventures to Bren Cameron’s diplomatic tightropes, you’ll relish Knight’s sharp, compact pieces that celebrate and interrogate the canon. His classic dismantling of A. E. van Vogt’s The World of Null-A and his praise for Sturgeon and Le Guin have the same smart, wry energy as Walton’s quick, reread-friendly essays.

Walton’s delight in the awe of Vernor Vinge’s galaxy-brained revelations and the humane breadth she finds in Pratchett’s Discworld mirrors Le Guin’s lucid meditations on what fantasy and SF are for. In these essays, Le Guin dissects enchantment, myth, and truth with the same generous curiosity Walton brings to her pieces on Bujold and Cherryh—only from the writer’s side of the desk.

If you savored Walton’s close readings—like her attention to Gene Wolfe’s narrative games or the structural audacity she points out in big-idea space opera—Delany will scratch the same itch at a deeper level. His analyses of stories like “The Star Pit” and the mechanics of estrangement unpack the very tools behind the effects Walton celebrates, giving you the intellectual x-ray beneath those joyous rereads.

Walton’s warm, funny asides—say, when she riffs on the comforts of returning to Pratchett or the sheer pleasure of Brust’s swagger—find a perfect echo in Jones’s chatty essays and talks. She tells inside stories about creating Howl and the Chrestomanci books, pokes at tropes with a grin, and offers the same playful, generous humor that makes Walton’s pieces so re-readable.

Walton often writes about the act of rereading—about reading order, spoilers, and the way a second pass through Bujold or Cherryh changes the texture of the story. Calvino turns that very experience into a dazzling game, addressing you directly as you try to read a novel that keeps beginning. If you enjoyed Walton’s meta-conversations about reading, this playful ode to the reader is irresistible.