I think they put Oryx and Crake on lists like this just to spite Margaret Atwood *NM*
Ouranid Send a noteboard - 14/12/2009 12:10:35 AM
Complied by io9.com, the list focuses mostly on science fiction, but there's also some fantasy and horror. There's a synopsis and comments on each choice in the link, if you want to read more. In no particular order:
Acacia: The War with the Mein by David Anthony Durham
Air, Or Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman
The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Down And Out In the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
Glasshouse by Charles Stross
Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Stories of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang
Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
World War Z by Max Brooks
I've only read on a couple on the list (The Baroque Cycle, Harry Potter, Strange and Norrell) but they certainly were very good. I haven't even heard of a lot of the books on this list, actually, but they all do sound interesting.
So what do some of you more well-read folks think? Agree, disagree? What books would YOU put on your list as the best of the decade?
Acacia: The War with the Mein by David Anthony Durham
Air, Or Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman
The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Down And Out In the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
Glasshouse by Charles Stross
Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Stories of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang
Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
World War Z by Max Brooks
I've only read on a couple on the list (The Baroque Cycle, Harry Potter, Strange and Norrell) but they certainly were very good. I haven't even heard of a lot of the books on this list, actually, but they all do sound interesting.
So what do some of you more well-read folks think? Agree, disagree? What books would YOU put on your list as the best of the decade?
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20 Best Science Fiction Books of the Decade
- 13/12/2009 10:16:32 PM
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How can Harry Potter be there and the Dark Tower not ?
- 13/12/2009 11:53:10 PM
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I'm kinda meh on Harry Potter but at least I found it interesting enough to finish
- 14/12/2009 02:25:36 PM
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I think they put Oryx and Crake on lists like this just to spite Margaret Atwood *NM*
- 14/12/2009 12:10:35 AM
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What do you mean? *NM*
- 14/12/2009 01:52:01 PM
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She's on record as being a bit snobby about Sci-Fi and not wanting to be labelled with it *NM*
- 14/12/2009 02:23:46 PM
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I agree with her 100%. It's not Science Fiction. *NM*
- 15/12/2009 06:47:50 PM
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I don't think of books like that as Sci fi but I can see the argument that they are
- 16/12/2009 01:19:45 PM
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I'm a little surprised The Lies of Locke Lamora isn't on there, to be honest.
- 14/12/2009 02:35:13 AM
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it's fantasy. not sf even by a stretch. *NM*
- 14/12/2009 05:52:05 AM
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Am I th eonly one who always reads Ekaterina Sedia as Ekaterina Sedai? 
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- 14/12/2009 08:52:57 PM
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- 14/12/2009 08:52:57 PM
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