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Recent Additions – Locus Magazine 2009 Recommended Reading List
This week I took a break from the usual series updates to do a major addition to WWEnd, namely the Locus Magazine 2009 Recommended Reading List. We’ve now got all the novels on the Locus list for you to review – 61 new books and over 40 new authors!
In case you’re not familiar with the list, it’s Locus’ annual run down of the books that they think merit your attention from the previous year – and this year’s list is a doozy! You’ll be seeing many of these books on the short lists for the big awards this year, in fact several are already on the BSFA Short List, so add ’em to your reading list now before awards season starts in earnest.
And speaking of awards, now is the time for you to vote in the Locus Poll. Anyone can vote but subscriber votes count double so if you’ve been thinking about subscribing, now is a great time to do it. So now, without further ado, the list:
Novels – Science Fiction
- The Empress of Mars, Kage Baker (Subterranean Press; Tor)
- Transition, Iain M. Banks (Little Brown UK; Orbit)
- Ark, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
- The Devil’s Alphabet, Daryl Gregory (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Buyout, Alexander C. Irvine (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Under the Dome, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton; Scribner)
- Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor)
- Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday)
- Gardens of the Sun, Paul McAuley (Gollancz; Pyr 2010)
- The Walls of the Universe, Paul Melko (Tor)
- Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
- Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager; Ballantine Spectra 2010)
- The Sunless Countries, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
- This Is Not a Game, Walter Jon Williams (Orbit UK, Orbit US)
- Julian Comstock, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
Novels – Fantasy
- The Price of Spring, Daniel Abraham (Tor)
- Last Days, Brian Evenson (Underland Press)
- Dragon in Chains, Daniel Fox (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Gears of the City, Felix Gilman (Bantam Spectra)
- Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales, Greer Gilman (Small Beer Press)
- Avilion, Robert Holdstock (Gollancz)
- The High City, Cecelia Holland (Forge)
- The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
- Green, Jay Lake (Tor)
- Madness of Flowers, Jay Lake (Night Shade Books)
- Audrey’s Door, Sarah Langan (Harper)
- The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Ballantine Del Rey)
- Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; Harper)
- Spell Games, T.A. Pratt (Bantam Spectra)
- Canticle, Ken Scholes (Tor)
- Drood, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
- The Revolution Business, Charles Stross (Tor)
- Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
- Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland Press)
- Lifelode, Jo Walton (NESFA Press)
- The Painting and the City, Robert Freeman Wexler (PS Publishing)
- In Great Waters, Kit Whitfield (Jonathan Cape; Del Rey)
Young Adult Books
- The Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker (Tachyon Publications)
- Going Bovine, Libba Bray (Delacorte)
- Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
- Sacred Scars, Kathleen Duey (Atheneum)
- The Lost Conspiracy (HarperCollins)
- Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury)
- The Ask and the Answer, Patrick Ness (Walker UK; Candlewick Press)
- Heroes of the Valley, Jonathan Stroud (Hyperion; Doubleday UK)
- Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)
First Novels
- The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books)
- The Manual of Detection, Jedediah Berry (Penguin)
- Soulless, Gail Carriger (Orbit)
- The Adamantine Palace, Stephen Deas (Gollancz; Roc 2010)
- Total Oblivion, More or Less, Alan DeNiro (Ballantine Spectra)
- Blood of Ambrose, James Enge (Pyr)
- Ash, Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)
- Rosemary and Rue, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
- Lamentation, Ken Scholes (Tor)
- Harbinger, Jack Skillingstead (Fairwood Press)
- Spellbent, Lucy A. Snyder (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Living with Ghosts, Kari Sperring (DAW)
- Lightbreaker, Mark Teppo (Night Shade Books)
- Norse Code, Greg van Eekhout (Ballantine Spectra)
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Four of the 6 books on the Nebula Final Ballot are on the Locus recommended list: The City and the City, Finch, The Windup Girl and Boneshaker. It’ll be interesting to see how many other award short lists compare to the Locus list.
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