Fired Up: The Year's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy
by LEV GROSSMAN
2011 was a good year to be a reader of science fiction and fantasy, although lately every year has been a good year: Not only are the books getting more popular — thank you, Game of Thrones — they're getting more interesting, evolving and morphing in weird, fascinating ways.
They're also interbreeding with other genres to produce wild new hybrid forms, like historical science fiction romances and hard-boiled fantasy detective novels. They're commenting on current events and swapping DNA with literary novels.
Brilliant writers like China Mieville and Catherynne Valente are rethinking the basic rules of the game, telling stories that look like fantasy and science fiction, but which make us feel things that those kinds of books aren't supposed to be able to make us feel.
Here are five of the best, most interesting, most mutated science fiction and fantasy novels published this year.
by LEV GROSSMAN
2011 was a good year to be a reader of science fiction and fantasy, although lately every year has been a good year: Not only are the books getting more popular — thank you, Game of Thrones — they're getting more interesting, evolving and morphing in weird, fascinating ways.
They're also interbreeding with other genres to produce wild new hybrid forms, like historical science fiction romances and hard-boiled fantasy detective novels. They're commenting on current events and swapping DNA with literary novels.
Brilliant writers like China Mieville and Catherynne Valente are rethinking the basic rules of the game, telling stories that look like fantasy and science fiction, but which make us feel things that those kinds of books aren't supposed to be able to make us feel.
Here are five of the best, most interesting, most mutated science fiction and fantasy novels published this year.
Just saw this from NPR:
- 18/12/2011 11:45:13 AM
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I've only heard of aDwD.
- 18/12/2011 01:18:16 PM
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Interesting that Grossman is so positive about it... few others were, that I've seen. *NM*
- 18/12/2011 02:42:32 PM
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He's the one that called Martin "the American Tolkien" that's quoted so often
- 18/12/2011 08:34:16 PM
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That sounds a bit meh. *NM*
- 18/12/2011 02:59:00 PM
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*NM*