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THE MAGAZINE OF THE SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY FIELD
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2002 Recommended Reading List |
February 2003 |
Novels - Science Fiction
- The Skinner, Neal Asher (Macmillan)
- The Sky So Big and Black, John Barnes (Tor)
- Lion’s Blood, Steven Barnes (Warner Aspect)
- Evolution, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Del Rey 2/03)
- Vitals, Greg Bear (Del Rey)
- Kiln People, David Brin (Tor)
- Transcension, Damien Broderick (Tor)
- Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card (Tor)
- Schild’s Ladder, Greg Egan (Gollancz; Eos)
- The Mount, Carol Emshwiller (Small Beer)
- Light Music, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Eos)
- Effendi: The Second Arabesk, Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Earthlight)
- Guardian, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
- Light, M. John Harrison (Gollancz)
- Probability Space, Nancy Kress (Tor)
- Engine City, Ken MacLeod (Orbit; Tor 1/03)
- The Devil and Deep Space, Susan R. Matthews (Roc)
- Chindi, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
- The Impossible Bird, Patrick O’Leary (Tor)
- The Separation, Christopher Priest (Scribner UK)
- Redemption Ark, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace 6/03)
- The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam)
- Spaceland, Rudy Rucker (Tor)
- Permanence, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
- The Omega Expedition, Brian Stableford (Tor)
- Coyote, Allen Steele (Ace)
- Bones of the Earth, Michael Swanwick (Eos)
- The Visitor, Sheri S. Tepper (Eos)
- Ruled Britannia, Harry Turtledove (NAL)
- The Praxis, Walter Jon Williams (Earthlight; Avon 10/03)
Novels - Fantasy
- Kushiel’s Chosen, Jacqueline Carey (Tor)
- White Apples, Jonathan Carroll (Tor)
- The Lady of the Sorrows, Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Macmillan Tor Australia; Warner Aspect)
- Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde (Hodder & Stoughton; Viking ’03)
- The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
- The Alchemist’s Door, Lisa Goldstein (Tor)
- Evening’s Empire, David Herter (Tor)
- A Fistful of Sky, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace)
- The Iron Grail, Robert Holdstock (Earthlight; Tor 1/04)
- Castles Made of Sand, Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz)
- The Facts of Life, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
- The Fall of the Kings, Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman (Bantam Spectra)
- A Bed of Earth, Tanith Lee (Overlook)
- Child of the Prophecy, Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia 2001; Tor)
- Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
- Voyage of the Shadowmoon, Sean McMullen (Tor)
- The Scar, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey)
- Night Watch, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
- The Isle of Battle, Sean Russell (Eos)
- The Book of Splendor, Frances Sherwood (Norton)
- A Winter Haunting, Dan Simmons (Morrow)
Young Adult Novels
- City of the Beasts, Isabel Allende (HarperCollins)
- Feed, M. T. Anderson (Candlewick)
- Abarat, Clive Barker (HarperCollins)
- Summerland, Michael Chabon (Talk Miramax)
- A Wizard Alone, Diane Duane (Harcourt)
- The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
- The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funk (Mammoth UK; Scholastic)
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
- Dr. Franklins’ Island, Ann Halam (Dalton, Random House)
- Stravaganza: City of Masks, Mary Hoffman (Bloomsbury)
- Firesong, William Nicholson (Mammoth UK; Hyperion)
- Protector of the Small: Lady Knight, Tamora Pierce (Random House)
- The Storm Weaver & the Sand, Sean Williams (Voyager Australia)
First Novels
- The Eye of Night, Pauline J. Alama (Bantam Spectra)
- Solitaire, Kelley Eskridge (Eos)
- The Summer Country, James A. Hetley (Ace)
- A Scattering of Jades, Alexander C. Irvine (Tor)
- Fires of the Faithful, Naomi Kritzer (Bantam Spectra)
- Just Like Beauty, Lisa Lerner (Farrar Straus Giroux)
- Warchild, Karin Lowachee (Warner Aspect)
- The God Who Begat a Jackal, Nega Mezlekia (Picador USA)
- Altered Carbon, Richard Morgan (Gollancz; Del Rey 1/03)
- The Red Church, Scott Nicholson (Pinnacle)
- The Atrocity Archive, Charles Stross (Spectrum SF, ser. )
- The Golden Age, John C. Wright (Tor)
Collections
- Going for Infinity, Poul Anderson (Tor)
- Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers, Kage Baker (Golden Gryphon)
- Phase Space, Stephen Baxter (Voyager)
- The Collected Stories of Greg Bear, Greg Bear (Tor)
- Martians and Madness, Fredric Brown (NESFA)
- Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (Tor)
- Waifs and Strays, Charles de Lint (Viking)
- Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick (Pantheon)
- Little Doors, Paul Di Filippo (Four Walls Eight Windows)
- Report to the Men’s Club and Other Stories, Carol Emshwiller (Small Beer Press)
- The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant and Other Stories, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon)
- Lies and Ugliness, Brian Hodge (Night Shade Books)
- Strange But Not a Stranger, James Patrick Kelly (Golden Gryphon)
- Everything’s Eventual, Stephen King (Scribner)
- The Birthday of the World and Other Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin (HarperCollins)
- Smoke Ghost & Other Apparitions, Fritz Leiber (Midnight House)
- Nightmare at 20, 000 Feet, Richard Matheson (Tor)
- If Lions Could Speak, Paul Park (Cosmos)
- Worlds Enough & Time, Dan Simmons (Subterranean)
- Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek, John Sladek (Big Engine)
- The Emperor of Dreams, Clark Ashton Smith (Gollancz)
- Toast and Other Rusted Futures, Charles Stross (Cosmos)
- Bright Segment: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume VIII, Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic)
- Counting Up, Counting Down, Harry Turtledove (Del Rey)
- The Great Escape, Ian Watson (Golden Gryphon)
Anthologies
- The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction, Mike Ashley, ed. (Robinson; Carroll & Graf)
- Empire of Dreams & Miracles, Orson Scott Card, ed. (Phobos)
- Mars Probes, Peter Crowther, ed. (DAW)
- The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin’s)
- The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s)
- Worlds That Weren’t, Laura Anne Gilman, ed. (Roc)
- The Hard SF Renaissance, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Tor)
- Year’s Best Fantasy 2, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)
- Year’s Best SF 7, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)
- Dark Terrors 6, Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds. (Gollancz)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13, Stephen Jones, ed. (Robinson; Carroll & Graf)
- Polyphony 1, Deborah Layne, ed. (Wheatland)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2002, Kim Stanley Robinson, ed. (Roc)
- The Great SF Stories (1964), Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (NESFA)
- Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists, Peter Straub, ed. (Bard College)
- Leviathan 3, Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, eds. (Ministry of Whimsy)
- 30th Anniversary DAW: Science Fiction, Elizabeth R. Wollheim & Sheila E. Gilbert, eds. (DAW)
- Best of the Rest 3, Brian Youmans, ed. (Suddenly Press)
Non-Fiction
- Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood, Mike Ashley (Constable 2001) as Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life (Carroll & Graf)
- Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror, Volumes I & II, Richard Bleiler, ed. (Scribner)
- Ramsey Campbell, Probably: On Horror and Sundry Fantasies, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
- A. E. van Vogt: Science Fantasy’s Icon, H. L. Drake (H. L. Drake)
- The Age of Chaos: The Multiverse of Michael Moorcock, Jeff Gardiner (The British Fantasy Society)
- The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith, Karen L. Hellekson (MacFarland)
- The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Justine Larbalestier (Wesleyan)
- Smokin’ Rockets, Patrick Lucanio & Gary Coville (McFarland)
- Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, Judith Merril & Emily Pohl-Weary (Between the Lines)
- L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz, Katharine M. Rogers (St. Martin’s)
- Once There Was a Magazine. . . Fred Smith (Beccon)
- John W. Campbell’s Golden Age of Science Fiction, Eric Solstein (DMZ)
- The Literature of Science Fiction Film Series, Eric Solstein (DMZ)
- Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years, Bruce Sterling (Random House)
- Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever, Ellen Weil & Gary K. Wolfe (Ohio State)
- Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic, Douglas E. Winter (HarperCollins)
- Mervyn Peake: My Eyes Mint Gold: A Life, Malcolm Yorke (Murray 2000; Overlook)
Art
- Paper Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery, Paul Barnett, ed. (Paper Tiger)
- Bob Eggleton, Dragonhenge, John Grant (Paper Tiger)
- Vincent Di Fate, The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate (Paper Tiger)
- Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
- Edward Gorey, Cautionary Tales for Children, Hilaire Belloc (Harcourt)
- Phil Hale, GOAD: The Many Moods of Phil Hale (Donald M. Grant)
- David Ho, Shadow Maker: The Digital Art of David Ho (Abaya Studios)
- Jael, Perceptualistics: Art by Jael, John Grant (Paper Tiger)
- Jeffrey Jones, The Art of Jeffrey Jones (Underwood Books)
- Fantasy Art Masters: The Best in Fantasy and SF Art Worldwide, Dick Jude (Collins) as More Fantasy Art Masters: The Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Artists Show How They Work (Watson Guptill 2003)
- R. Craig Russell, The Ring of the Nibelung, Volumes 1 & 2 (Dark Horse)
- Ray Bradbury: An Illustrated Life, Jerry Wiest (Morrow)
Novellas
- “The Potter of Bones”, Eleanor Arnason (Asimov’s 9/02)
- “The Engine of Desire”, William Barton (Asimov’s 8/02)
- Riding the Rock, Stephen Baxter (PS Publishing)
- “Bronte’s Egg”, Richard Chwedyk (F&SF 8/02)
- “Ransom”, Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF 3/02)
- Seven Wild Sisters, Charles de Lint (Subterranean Press)
- A Year in the Linear City, Paul Di Filippo (PS Publishing)
- “Singleton”, Greg Egan (Interzone 2/02)
- “The Political Officer”, Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 4/02)
- “In Spirit”, Pat Forde (Analog 9/02)
- “Ring Rats”, R. Garcia y Robertson (Asimov’s 4/02)
- “The Least Trumps”, Elizabeth Hand (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
- El Dia de los Muertos, Brian A. Hopkins (Earthling)
- “Stories for Men”, John Kessel (Asimov’s 10-11/02)
- In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers, Caitlín Kiernan (Subterranean Press)
- “Paradises Lost”, Ursula K. Le Guin (The Birthday of the World)
- The Human Front, Ken MacLeod (PS Publishing)
- “Breathmoss”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s 5/02)
- “Doctor Pretorius and the Lost Temple”, Paul McAuley (Sci Fiction 9/11/02)
- The Tain, China Miéville (PS Publishing)
- “Veritas”, Robert Reed (Asimov’s 7/02)
- Turquoise Days, Alastair Reynolds (Golden Gryphon)
- “Over Yonder”, Lucius Shepard (Sci Fiction 1/02/02)
- “The Drive-in Puerto Rico”, Lucius Shepard (F&SF 10-11/02)
- “Router”, Charles Stross (Asimov’s 9/02)
- “Jury Service”, Charles Stross & Cory Doctorow (Sci Fiction 12/03/02)
- “Unseen Demons”, Adam Troy-Castro (Analog 7-8/02)
- “A Speaker for the Wooden Sea”, Ian Watson (Asimov’s 3/02)
Novelettes
- “The Likely Lad”, Kage Baker (Asimov’s 9/02)
- “The Clear Blue Seas of Luna”, Gregory Benford (Asimov’s 10-11/02)
- “In for a Penny or The Man Who Believed in Himself”, James P. Blaylock (Sci Fiction 2/20/02)
- “Look Away”, Stephen L. Burns (Analog 5/02)
- “The Thing in the Forest”, A. S. Byatt (The New Yorker 6/03/02)
- “Liking What You See: A Documentary”, Ted Chiang (Stories of Your Life and Others)
- “Three Times over the Falls”, A. M. Dellamonica (Sci Fiction 2/27/02)
- “A Martian Theodicy”, Paul Di Filippo (Mars Probes)
- “Ailoura”, Paul Di Filippo (Once Upon a Galaxy)
- “0wnz0red”, Cory Doctorow (Salon 8/28/02)
- “The Big Rock Candy Mountain”, Andy Duncan (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
- “The Names of All the Spirits”, J. R. Dunn (Sci Fiction 7/24/02)
- “We Come Not to Praise Washington”, Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 8/02)
- “Something by the Sea”, Jeffrey Ford (The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant; F&SF 10-11/02)
- “The Weight of Words”, Jeffrey Ford (Leviathan 3)
- “Madonna of the Maquiladora”, Gregory Frost (Asimov’s 5/02)
- “Pavane for a Prince of the Air”, Elizabeth Hand (Embrace the Mutation)
- “The Convert”, Simon Ings (Asimov’s 12/02)
- “Chichen Itza”, Alex Irvine (F&SF 5/02)
- “Jimmy Guang’s House of Gladmech”, Alex Irvine (Sci Fiction 4/10/02)
- “Watching Matthew”, Damon Knight (F&SF 10-11/02)
- “The Most Famous Little Girl in the World”, Nancy Kress (Sci Fiction 5/08/02)
- “The Wild Girls”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov’s 3/02)
- “Lull”, Kelly Link (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
- “The Passenger”, Paul McAuley (Asimov’s 3/02)
- “The Hidden Place”, Ian McDonald (Asimov’s 10-11/02)
- “The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars”, Ian McDonald (Mars Probes)
- “Presence”, Maureen F. McHugh (F&SF 3/02)
- “Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel”, Michael Moorcock (Mars Probes)
- “The Job Interview”, Mike Moscoe (Analog 5/02)
- “War, Ice, Egg, Universe”, G. David Nordley (Asimov’s 10-11/02)
- “A Champion of Democracy”, Tom Purdom (Asimov’s 5/02)
- “Lying to Dogs”, Robert Reed (Asimov’s, 12/02)
- “The Children’s Crusade”, Robert Reed (Sci Fiction 4/24/02)
- “The Real Story”, Alastair Reynolds (Mars Probes)
- V.A.O. , Geoff Ryman (PS Publishing)
- “Charlie’s Away”, Midori Snyder (The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest)
- “The Essayist in the Wilderness”, William Browning Spencer (F&SF 5/02)
- “Little Red’s Tango”, Peter Straub (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
- “Big Brother Iron”, Charles Stross (Toast and Other Rusted Futures)
- “Halo”, Charles Stross (Asimov’s 6/02)
- “Tourist”, Charles Stross (Asimov’s 2/02)
- “Slow Life”, Michael Swanwick (Analog 12/02)
- “A Flock of Birds”, James Van Pelt (Sci Fiction 8/28/02)
- “At the Money”, Richard Wadholm (Asimov’s 4/02)
- “A Free Man”, Ian Watson (The Third Alternative Spring)
- “King Rainjoy’s Tears”, Chris Willrich (F&SF 7/02)
- A Walking Tour of the Shambles, Gene Wolfe & Neil Gaiman (American Fantasy)
- “Our Friend Electricity”, Ron Wolfe (F&SF 6/02)
Short Stories
- “Ghost Chocolate”, Daniel Abraham (Asimov’s 8/02)
- “In Father Christmas’s Court”, Tavis Allison (Asimov’s 12/02)
- “Knapsack Poems”, Eleanor Arnason (Asimov’s 5/02)
- “Her Father’s Eyes”, Kage Baker (Asimov’s 12/02)
- “Grubber”, Neal Barrett, Jr. (30th Anniversary DAW: Science Fiction)
- “The Hunters of Pangaea”, Stephen Baxter (Analog 12/02)
- “To Become a Warrior”, Chris Beckett (Interzone 6-7/02)
- “I Saw the Light”, Terry Bisson (Sci Fiction 10/02/02)
- “Tall Tales on the Iron Horse”, Colin P. Davies (Spectrum SF 8 5/02)
- “The Hanging Curve”, Gardner Dozois (F&SF 4/02)
- “The Holy Bright Number (A Charlie Poole Story)”, Andy Duncan (Polyphony 1)
- “Osmund Considers”, Timons Esaias (Interzone 5/02)
- “Miles to Go”, Sheila Finch (F&SF 6/02)
- “Creation”, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 5/02)
- “What I Didn’t See”, Karen Joy Fowler (Sci Fiction 7/10/02)
- “October in the Chair”, Neil Gaiman (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
- “Lambing Season”, Molly Gloss (Asimov’s 7/02)
- “The Rose in Twelve Petals”, Theodora Goss (Realms of Fantasy 4/02)
- “Incandescent Bliss”, Howard V. Hendrix (Asimov’s 6/02)
- “Candy Art”, James Patrick Kelly (Strange But Not a Stranger; Asimov’s 12/02)
- “The Invisible Empire”, John Kessel (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
- “At Dorado”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s 10-11/02)
- “The Long Chase”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s 2/02)
- “Social Dreaming of the Frin”, Ursula K. Le Guin (F&SF 10-11/02)
- “The Seasons of the Ansarac”, Ursula K. Le Guin (The Infinite Matrix 6/30/02)
- “Fee, Fie, Foe, et Cetera”, Gregory Maguire (The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest)
- “Hunter’s Moon”, Patricia A. McKillip (The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest)
- “Familiar”, China Miéville (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
- “The War of the Worldviews”, James Morrow (Mars Probes)
- “The Me After the Rock”, Patrick O’Leary (Mars Probes)
- “What Mattered Was Sleep”, Patrick O’Leary (Sci Fiction 8/14/02)
- “Geropods”, Robert Onopa (F&SF 7/02)
- “If Lions Could Speak: Imagining the Alien”, Paul Park (Interzone 3/02)
- “She Sees My Monsters Now”, Robert Reed (Asimov’s 6/02)
- “Leda”, M. Rickert (F&SF 8/02)
- “Droplet”, Benjamin Rosenbaum (F&SF 7/02)
- “My Flamboyant Grandson”, George Saunders (The New Yorker 1/02)
- “In Paradise”, Bruce Sterling (F&SF 9/02)
- “The Star Watch”, James Stoddard (F&SF 1/02)
- “Dirty Little War”, Michael Swanwick (In the Shadow of the Wall)
- “‘Hello, ’ Said the Stick”, Michael Swanwick (Analog 3/02)
- “The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s 10-11/02)
- “Moira”, Lois Tilton (Realms of Fantasy 12/02)
- “The Prospect Cards”, Don Tumasonis (Dark Terrors 6)
- “Foodstuff”, Steven Utley (F&SF 2/02)
- “Treading the Maze”, Steven Utley (Asimov’s 2/02)
- “Some Other Time”, Ray Vukcevich (Sci Fiction 7/17/02)
- “Flight Correction”, Ken Wharton (Analog 3/02)
- “Shields of Mars”, Gene Wolfe (Mars Probes)
- “The Millennium Party”, Walter Jon Williams (The Infinite Matrix 8/05/02)
- “The Waif”, Gene Wolfe (F&SF 1/02)
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