{"id":126,"date":"2005-01-30T03:40:06","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T07:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/30\/locus-recommended-books\/"},"modified":"2005-01-30T03:40:55","modified_gmt":"2005-01-30T07:40:55","slug":"locus-recommended-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/30\/locus-recommended-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Locus Recommended Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Locus has published their <a href=\"http:\/\/locusmag.com\/2005\/Issues\/02RecommendedReading.html\">list of recommended books<\/a> for last year. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing pretty well on the novels.<\/p>\n<h2>Science Fiction Novels<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Life of the World to Come<\/b>, Kage Baker (Tor) <em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>The Algebraist<\/b>, Iain M. Banks (Orbit)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Exultant<\/b>, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Del Rey)<\/li>\n<li><b>Spondulix<\/b>, Paul Di Filippo (Cambrian)<em>(planning to get it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Eastern Standard Tribe<\/b>, Cory Doctorow (Tor)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Stamping Butterflies<\/b>, Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Camouflage<\/b>, Joe Haldeman (Ace)<em>(planning to get it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>For Us, The Living<\/b>, Robert A. Heinlein (Scribner)<\/li>\n<li><b>Black Brillion<\/b>, Matthew Hughes (Tor)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Life<\/b>, Gwyneth Jones (Aqueduct)<\/li>\n<li><b>The Language of Power<\/b>, Rosemary Kirstein (Del Rey)<\/li>\n<li><b>Crucible<\/b>, Nancy Kress (Tor)<\/li>\n<li><b>Newton&#8217;s Wake<\/b>, Ken MacLeod (Orbit; Tor)<em>(got it, to read)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>White Devils<\/b>, Paul McAuley (Simon &amp; Schuster UK; Tor)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Lost in Transmission<\/b>, Wil McCarthy (Bantam Spectra)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>River of Gods<\/b>, Ian McDonald (Simon &amp; Schuster UK)<\/li>\n<li><b>Cloud Atlas<\/b>, David Mitchell (Sceptre; Random House)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Century Rain<\/b>, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace 2005)<em>(got it, to read)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Forty Signs of Rain<\/b>, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins UK; Bantam)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>The Plot Against America<\/b>, Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)<\/li>\n<li><b>Frek and the Elixir<\/b>, Rudy Rucker (Tor)<\/li>\n<li><b>Air<\/b>, Geoff Ryman (St. Martin\u2019s)<em>(planning to get it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>The Baroque Cycle: The Confusion; The System of the World<\/b>,  Neal Stephenson (Morrow)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>The Zenith Angle<\/b>, Bruce Sterling (Del Rey)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Iron Sunrise<\/b>, Charles Stross (Ace)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Banner of Souls<\/b>, Liz Williams (Bantam Spectra)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>The Fourth Circle<\/b>, Zoran Zivkovic (Ministry of Whimsy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fantasy Novels<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dead Lines<\/b>, Greg Bear (HarperCollins UK; Ballantine)<\/li>\n<li><b>Mortal Love<\/b>, Elizabeth Hand (Morrow)<\/li>\n<li><b>The Witches&#8217; Kitchen<\/b>, Cecelia Holland (Forge)<\/li>\n<li><b>One King, One Soldier<\/b>, Alexander C. Irvine (Del Rey)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>The Last Light of the Sun<\/b>, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc)<\/li>\n<li><b>The Charnel Prince<\/b>, Greg Keyes (Del Rey)<\/li>\n<li><b>Murder of Angels<\/b>, Caitl\u00edn R. Kiernan (Roc)<\/li>\n<li><b>The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah<\/b>; <b>The Dark Tower<\/b>, Stephen King (Grant\/Scribner)<\/li>\n<li><b>Dragon&#8217;s Treasure<\/b>, Elizabeth A. Lynn (Ace)<\/li>\n<li><b>Alphabet of Thorn<\/b>, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)<\/li>\n<li><b>Glass Dragons<\/b>, Sean McMullen (Tor)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Iron Council<\/b>, China Mi\u00e9ville (Del Rey)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Going Postal<\/b>, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>A Handbook of American Prayer<\/b>, Lucius Shepard (Thunder\u2019s Mouth)<\/li>\n<li><b>Perfect Circle<\/b>, Sean Stewart (Small Beer)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>In the Night Room<\/b>, Peter Straub (Random House)<\/li>\n<li><b>The Family Trade<\/b>, Charles Stross (Tor)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Shadowmarch<\/b>, Tad Williams (DAW)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>The Wizard Knight<\/b>, Gene Wolfe (Tor \u2013 2 Volumes: <b>The Knight<\/b>,  <b>The Wizard<\/b>)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>The Last Guardian of Everness<\/b>, John C. Wright (Tor)<em>(got it, read it)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Locus has published their list of recommended books for last year. I&#8217;m doing pretty well on the novels. Science Fiction Novels The Life of the World to Come, Kage Baker (Tor) (got it, read it) The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks (Orbit)(got it, read it) Exultant, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Del Rey) Spondulix, Paul Di Filippo (Cambrian)(planning to get it) Eastern Standard&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/30\/locus-recommended-books\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-22","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}