Locus Recommended Books

Locus has published their list of recommended books for last year.

I’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 Tribe, Cory Doctorow (Tor)(got it, read it)
• Stamping Butterflies, Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz)(got it, read it)
• Camouflage, Joe Haldeman (Ace)(planning to get it)
• For Us, The Living, Robert A. Heinlein (Scribner)
• Black Brillion, Matthew Hughes (Tor)(got it, read it)
• Life, Gwyneth Jones (Aqueduct)
• The Language of Power, Rosemary Kirstein (Del Rey)
• Crucible, Nancy Kress (Tor)
• Newton’s Wake, Ken MacLeod (Orbit; Tor)(got it, to read)
• White Devils, Paul McAuley (Simon & Schuster UK; Tor)(got it, read it)
• Lost in Transmission, Wil McCarthy (Bantam Spectra)(got it, read it)
• River of Gods, Ian McDonald (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (Sceptre; Random House)(got it, read it)
• Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace 2005)(got it, to read)
• Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins UK; Bantam)(got it, read it)
• The Plot Against America, Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
• Frek and the Elixir, Rudy Rucker (Tor)
• Air, Geoff Ryman (St. Martin’s)(planning to get it)
• The Baroque Cycle: The Confusion; The System of the World, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)(got it, read it)
• The Zenith Angle, Bruce Sterling (Del Rey)(got it, read it)
• Iron Sunrise, Charles Stross (Ace)(got it, read it)
• Banner of Souls, Liz Williams (Bantam Spectra)(got it, read it)
• The Fourth Circle, Zoran Zivkovic (Ministry of Whimsy)

Fantasy Novels

• Dead Lines, Greg Bear (HarperCollins UK; Ballantine)
• Mortal Love, Elizabeth Hand (Morrow)
• The Witches’ Kitchen, Cecelia Holland (Forge)
• One King, One Soldier, Alexander C. Irvine (Del Rey)(got it, read it)
• The Last Light of the Sun, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc)
• The Charnel Prince, Greg Keyes (Del Rey)
• Murder of Angels, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah; The Dark Tower, Stephen King (Grant/Scribner)
• Dragon’s Treasure, Elizabeth A. Lynn (Ace)
• Alphabet of Thorn, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
• Glass Dragons, Sean McMullen (Tor)(got it, read it)
• Iron Council, China Miéville (Del Rey)(got it, read it)
• Going Postal, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)(got it, read it)
• A Handbook of American Prayer, Lucius Shepard (Thunder’s Mouth)
• Perfect Circle, Sean Stewart (Small Beer)(got it, read it)
• In the Night Room, Peter Straub (Random House)
• The Family Trade, Charles Stross (Tor)(got it, read it)
• Shadowmarch, Tad Williams (DAW)(got it, read it)
• The Wizard Knight, Gene Wolfe (Tor – 2 Volumes: The Knight, The Wizard)(got it, read it)
• The Last Guardian of Everness, John C. Wright (Tor)(got it, read it)