The Very Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Of
This has been a really great year for science fiction, fantasy and horror books, taking us to fabulous worlds and opening our minds to new ideas and brilliant new characters. Here’s our list of the most amazing books we read this year.
The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi
has been the year that a lot of us started to come to grips with the reality of climate change, and some of the most fascinating writing this year has dealt with the potential fallout. So it’s appropriate that this is the year Paolo Bacigalupi chose to release his first adult novel since his debut, The Windup Girl. Taking place in a parched American Southwest and spread out amongst a journalist, a refugee and a mercenary, this book shows how things go off track when the local rights to what little water remains comes into question. Bacicalupi has expertly sketched out a near-future climate change scenario, and it’s not pretty.
Fallout, Gwenda Bond
Origin stories happen all the time in comics, and in this novel, Lois Lane gets her own cool story about her beginnings. When she moves to Metropolis, she sees a girl get bullied, and begins to investigate a vide
20 books you should have read in
It&#;s been an incredible year for genre fiction, and any attempt to provide a definitive best-of list for &#;s science-fiction, fantasy and horror fiction would be a foolhardy and frankly ridiculous effort.
So, we asked our team for the books that really stuck with them this year and we&#;ve come up with a list of novels that we can&#;t recommend highly enough. Whether you&#;re looking for the baddest bad bastards in epic fantasy or sci-fi that pushes the boundaries of perception, here are the books that your SciFiNow reviewers think you need to read immediately.
THE WATER KNIFE BY PAOLO BACIGALUPI
Bacigalupi followed The Wind-Up Girlwith this gritty, superbly realised and horribly plausible tale set in a near-future US where states fight each other for water supplies. When a battle-hardened journalist and a deadly operative clash in the nearly-dry Phoenix, the stage is set for a violent struggle with terrible consequences. A blend of hard-boiled conspiracy thriller and mournful cautionary tale, this is absolutely superb.
The Water Knife is published by Orbit. Read our full review by Jonathan Hatfull here.
TWELVE KINGS IN
The Goodreads Choice Awards have three rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members. Winners will be announced December 01, Voting opens to 15 official nominees, and write-in votes can be placed for any eligible book (see eligibility below). The top five write-in votes in each of the categories become official nominees. Additional write-ins no longer accepted. The field narrows to the top 10 books in each category, and members have one last chance to vote! Books published in the United States in English, including works in translation and other significant rereleases, between November 16, , and November 15, , are eligible for the Goodreads Choice Awards. Books published between November 16, , and November 15, , will be eligible for the awards. We analyze statistics from the millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on Goodreads to nominate 15 books in each category. Opening round official nominees must have an average rating of or higher at the time of launch. Write-in votes may be cast for eligible books with any average rating, and write
Here at EBR was a great year. Not only did we get through a record number of books, but we also participated in Mark Lawrence&#;s Blog-Off and were nominated for a Hugo. Again. We are that awesome. It was hard to limit the best books from because there were so many, but we do this for y&#;all so you can spend your time reading the best books possible. The books aren&#;t in any particular order and of course we didn&#;t read every book published this year. If we missed something, definitely leave us a comment. . Rules & Eligibility
Opening Round: Nov 03 - 08
Semifinal Round: Nov 10 - 15
Final Round: Nov 17 - 23
Best of
THE BEST OF
The Liar&#;s Key by Mark Lawrence (EBR Review)
The Border by Robert McCammon (EBR review)
Grunt Traitor by Weston Ochse (EBR review)
Son of the Black Sword by Larry Coreia (EBR review)
Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (EBR review)
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie (EBR review)
The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis (EBR review)
The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes (EBR review)
Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan (EBR review)
Ash and Silver by Carol Berg (EBR review)
The Boy With the Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick (EBR Review)
The Art of Language Invention by David J Peterson (Amazon)
The Aeronaut&#;s Windlass by Jim Butcher (EBR Review)
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