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Recommended Reading: 2007
This recommended reading list, published in Locus Magazine's February 2008 issue, is a consensus by Locus editors and reviewers -- Charles N. Brown, Gary K. Wolfe, Jonathan Strahan, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, Nick Gevers, Carolyn Cushman, Tim Pratt, Karen Haber, and Rich Horton -- with inputs from outside reviewers, other professionals, other lists, etc. Essays by many of these contributors, highlighting their particular favorite books and stories, are published in the February issue.
SF novels
- HARM, Brian W. Aldiss (Del Rey; Duckworth)
- The Sons of Heaven, Kage Baker (Tor)
- Conqueror, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Ace)
- Undertow, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
- Till Human Voices Wake Us, Mark Budz (Bantam Spectra)
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
- Spook Country, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
- In War Times, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
- The Accidental Time Machine, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
- Mainspring, Jay Lake (Tor)
- The Execution Channel, Ken MacLeod (Orbit UK; Tor)
- Brasyl, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)
- Black Man, Richard Morgan (Gollancz; Del Rey as Thirteen)
- Shelter, Susan Palwick (Tor)
- Engineer Trilogy: Devices and Desires / Evil for Evil / The Escapement, K. J. Parker (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
- The Prefect, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace 6/08)
- Sixty Days and Counting, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam Spectra; HarperCollins UK)
- Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
- Queen of Candesce, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
- Halting State, Charles Stross (Ace)
- Ha'Penny, Jo Walton (Tor)
- Axis, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
Fantasy novels
- A Betrayal in Winter, Daniel Abraham (Tor)
- Whiskey and Water, Elizabeth Bear (Roc)
- Territory, Emma Bull (Tor)
- Endless Things, John Crowley (Small Beer; Overlook)
- Ink, Hal Duncan (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
- The New Moon's Arms, Nalo Hopkinson (Warner)
- The Spiral Labyrinth, Matthew Hughes (Night Shade Books)
- Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc)
- Daughter of Hounds, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
- Bone Song, John Meaney (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra 2008)
- The White Tyger, Paul Park (Tor)
- Making Money, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
- Blood Engines, T. A. Pratt (Bantam Spectra)
- The Secret History of Moscow, Ekaterina Sedia (Prime Books)
- softspoken, Lucius Shepard (Night Shade Books)
- The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
- Pirate Freedom, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- Titans of Chaos, John C. Wright (Tor)
First novels
- Grey, Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books)
- One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak (Bantam Spectra)
- The Sword-Edged Blonde, Alex Bledsoe (Night Shade Books)
- City of Bones, Cassandra Clare (McElderry)
- Breakfast with the One You Love, Eliot Fintushel (Bantam Spectra)
- Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
- Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr (HarperTeen; HarperCollins Children's UK)
- Maledicte, Lane Robins (Del Rey)
- The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
- Flora Segunda, Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt; Scholastic UK as Flora Segunda at Crackpot Hall)
YA
- The H-Bomb Girl, Stephen Baxter (Faber and Faber)
- Ironside, Holly Black (McElderry)
- Skin Hunger, Kathleen Duey (Atheneum)
- Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury)
- Verdigris Deep, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; HarperCollins as Well Witched)
- The Dream Quake, Elizabeth Knox (Faber Children's Books; Farrar, Straus & Giroux as Dreamquake)
- Magic's Child, Justine Larbalestier (Razorbill)
- Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt; Gollancz)
- Un Lun Dun, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
- The Shadow Speaker, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu (Hyperion)
- Extras, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
Collections
- Gods and Pawns, Kage Baker (Tor)
- The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
- New Amsterdam, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean Press)
- Overclocked, Cory Doctorow (Thunder's Mouth Press)
- Rynemonn, Terry Dowling (coeur de lion)
- Dangerous Space, Kelley Eskridge (Aqueduct Press)
- The Guild of Xenolinguists, Sheila Finch (Golden Gryphon Press)
- Portable Childhoods, Ellen Klages (Tachyon Publications)
- Past Magic, Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
- Getting to Know You, David Marusek (Subterranean)
- The Girl Who Loved Animals and Other Stories, Bruce McAllister (Golden Gryphon Press)
- The Fate of Mice, Susan Palwick (Tachyon Publications)
- Hart & Boot & Other Stories, Tim Pratt (Night Shade Books)
- Dagger Key and Other Stories, Lucius Shepard (PS Publishing)
- Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, Bruce Sterling (Subterranean Press)
- The Nail and the Oracle: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume XI, Theodore Sturgeon, edited by Paul Williams (North Atlantic Books)
- The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Michael Swanwick (Tachyon Publications)
- The Jack Vance Treasury, Jack Vance, edited by Terry Dowling & Jonathan Strahan (Subterranean Press)
- Things Will Never Be the Same: Selected Short Fiction 1980-2005, Howard Waldrop (Old Earth Books)
- The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, Connie Willis (Subterranean Press)
Anthologies
original
- Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge, Lou Anders, ed. (Pyr)
- Wizards, Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Berkley)
- The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
- Inferno, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
- The New Space Opera, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos)
- Logorrhea, John Klima, ed. (Bantam Spectra)
- The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, George Mann, ed. (Solaris)
- The Restless Dead, Deborah Noyes, ed. (Candlewick)
- At Ease with the Dead, Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, eds. (Ash-Tree Press)
- Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade Books)
reprint
- The Best of the Best, Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)
- Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, eds. (Tachyon Publications)
- Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Alexander Levitsky, ed. (Overlook Press)
- The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (Del Rey)
- SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, eds. (Tor)
- The Asimov's 30th Anniversary Anthology, Sheila Williams, ed. (Tachyon Publications)
bests of the year
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, eds. (St. Martin's Griffin)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)
- Year's Best Fantasy 7, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)
- Year's Best SF 12, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)
- Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2007 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime Books)
- Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2007 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime Books)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Eighteen, Stephen Jones, ed. (Carroll & Graf)
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade Books)
- Best Short Novels: 2007, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (SFBC)
Non-Fiction
- Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)
- Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, S. T. Joshi (Greenwood Press)
- Breakfast in the Ruins, Barry N. Malzberg (Baen)
- Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Jeff Prucher (Oxford University Press)
- Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons, Robin Roberts (University Press of Mississippi)
- The Country You Have Never Seen, Joanna Russ (Liverpool University Press)
- Science Fact and Science Fiction, Brian Stableford (Routledge)
- Sides, Peter Straub (Cemetery Dance)
- Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction, Gary Westfahl (McFarland)
- Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe On Writing/Writers on Wolfe, Peter Wright, ed. (Liverpool University Press)
- The Cultural Influences of William Gibson, the "Father" of Cyberpunk Science Fiction, Carl B. Yoke & Carol L. Robinson, eds. (The Edwin Mellen Press)
Art
- Yoshitaka Amano, Worlds of Amano (DH Press)
- Dreamscape: The Best of Imaginary Realism, Claus Brusen & Marcel Salome, eds. (Salbru)
- Emshwiller: Infinity X Two, Luis Ortiz (Nonstop Press)
- Spectrum 14: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
- John Howe, Beowulf: A Tale of Blood, Heat, and Ashes, retold by Nicky Raven (Candlewick)
- Fantasy Art Now: The Very Best in Contemporary Fantasy Art & Illustration, Martin McKenna, ed. (Collins Design)
- Audrey Niffenegger, The Adventuress (Abrams)
- Rafal Olbinski, Rafal Olbinski Women: Motifs and Variations (Hudson Hills Press)
- Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art, Sebastian Peake & Alison Eldred, edited by G. Peter Winnington (Peter Owen Publishers)
- Shaun Tan, The Arrival (Scholastic/Levine)
Novellas
- "Awakenings", Judith Berman (Black Gate Spring '07)
- "After the Siege", Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix 1/07)
- The Lees of Laughter's End, Steven Erikson (PS Publishing)
- Illyria, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
- The Game, Diana Wynne Jones (Firebird)
- "The Fountain of Age", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 7/07)
- "The Master Miller's Tale", Ian R. MacLeod (F&SF 5/07)
- "Hormiga Canyon", Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling (Asimov's 8/07)
- "Recovering Apollo 8", Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's 2/07)
- "Dagger Key", Lucius Shepard (Dagger Key and Other Stories)
- "Dead Money", Lucius Shepard (Asimov's 4-5/07)
- "Stars Seen Through Stone", Lucius Shepard (F&SF 7/07)
- "The Emperor and the Maula", Robert Silverberg (The New Space Opera)
- Of Love and Other Monsters, Vandana Singh (Aqueduct Press)
- "Muse of Fire", Dan Simmons (The New Space Opera)
- "Womb of Every World", Walter Jon Williams (Alien Crimes)
- "All Seated on the Ground", Connie Willis (Asimov's 12/07)
- "Memorare", Gene Wolfe (F&SF 4/07)
Novelettes
- "The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics", Daniel Abraham (Logorrhea)
- "The Gray Boy's Work", M.T. Anderson (The Restless Dead)
- "Hellfire at Twilight", Kage Baker (Gods and Pawns)
- "An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away", John Barnes (Jim Baen's Universe 8/07)
- "The Forest" Laird Barron (Inferno)
- "We Never Talk About My Brother", Peter S. Beagle (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show 6/07)
- "Cryptic Coloration", Elizabeth Bear (Baen's Universe 6/07)
- "The Final Voyage of La Riaza", Jayme Lynn Blaschke (Interzone 6/07)
- "Dance of Shadows", Fred Chappell (F&SF 3/07)
- "The Diamond Shadow", Fred Chappell (F&SF 10-11/07)
- "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate", Ted Chiang (Subterranean; F&SF 9/07)
- "Wikiworld", Paul Di Filippo (Fast Forward 1)
- "A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question", Andy Duncan (Wizards)
- "The Bone Man", Frederic S. Durbin (F&SF 12/07)
- "Dark Integers", Greg Egan (Asimov's 10-11/07)
- "Glory", Greg Egan (The New Space Opera)
- "Steve Fever", Greg Egan (MIT Technology Review 11-12/07)
- "An Eye for an Eye", Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 6/07)
- "The Witch's Headstone", Neil Gaiman (Wizards)
- "Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon", Theodora Goss (Realms of Fantasy 6/07)
- "Winter's Wife", Elizabeth Hand (Wizards)
- "Wizard's Six", Alex Irvine (F&SF 6/07)
- "Brain Raid", Alexander Jablokov (F&SF 2/07)
- "Icarus Beach", C.W. Johnson (Analog 12/07)
- "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change", Kij Johnson (The Coyote Road)
- "Public Safety", Matthew Johnson (Asimov's 3/07)
- "Dividing the Sustain", James Patrick Kelly (The New Space Opera)
- "Don't Stop", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 10-11/07)
- "The Prophet of Flores", Ted Kosmatka (Asimov's 9/07)
- "Safeguard", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 1/07)
- "Crossing the Seven", Jay Lake (Logorrhea)
- "Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack In the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers", John Langan (F&SF 9/07)
- "The Constable of Abal", Kelly Link (The Coyote Road)
- "Light", Kelly Link (Tin House Fall '07)
- "The Unrung Bells of the Marie Celeste", Richard A. Lovett (Analog 1-2/07)
- "The Wizard of West Orange", Steven Millhauser (Harper's 4/07)
- "Finisterra", David Moles (F&SF 12/07)
- "Holly and Iron", Garth Nix (Wizards)
- "Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again", Garth Nix (Baen's Universe 4/07)
- "The Caldera of Good Fortune", Robert Reed (Asimov's 9/07)
- "Roxie", Robert Reed (Asimov's 7/07)
- "The Sky is Large and the Earth is Small", Chris Roberson (Asimov's 7/07)
- "Splinters of Glass", Mary Rosenblum (The New Space Opera)
- "Not of This Fold", William Shunn (An Alternate History of the 21st Century)
- "Against the Current", Robert Silverberg (F&SF 10-11/07)
- "Kiosk", Bruce Sterling (F&SF 1/07)
- "Trunk and Disorderly", Charles Stross (Asimov's 1/07)
- "The Skysailor's Tale", Michael Swanwick (The Dog Said Bow-Wow)
- "Urdumheim", Michael Swanwick (The Dog Said Bow-Wow)
- "Lt Privet's Love Song", Scott Thomas (The Solaris Book of New Fantasy)
- "Old Mr. Boudreaux", Lisa Tuttle (Subterranean 10/07)
- "The Surgeon's Tale", Jeff VanderMeer & Cat Rambo (Subterranean Winter '07)
- "Kaleidoscope", K. D. Wentworth (F&SF 5/07)
- "Send Them Flowers", Walter Jon Williams (The New Space Opera)
- "A Wizard of the Old School", Chris Willrich (F&SF 8/07)
- "The Magic Animal", Gene Wolfe (Wizards)
Short Stories
- "Clockmaker's Requiem", Barth Anderson (Clarkesworld 3/07)
- "The Ruby Incomparable", Kage Baker (Wizards)
- "Last Contact", Stephen Baxter (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction)
- "Barrens Dancing", Peter S. Beagle (Wizards)
- "The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French", Peter S. Beagle (Eclipse One)
- "Orm the Beautiful", Elizabeth Bear (Clarkesworld 1/07)
- "Tideline", Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's 6-7/07)
- "Pirates of the Somali Coast", Terry Bisson (Subterranean 10/07)
- "The Coat of Stars", Holly Black (So Fey)
- "Paper Cuts Scissors", Holly Black (Realms of Fantasy 10/07)
- "Among Strangers", Pat Cadigan (disLOCATIONS)
- "Café Culture", Jack Dann (Asimov's 1/07)
- "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse", Andy Duncan (Eclipse One)
- "The Dreaming Wind", Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road)
- "The Drowned Life", Jeffrey Ford (Eclipse One)
- "The Manticore Spell", Jeffrey Ford (Wizards)
- "Under the Bottom of the Lake", Jeffrey Ford (Subterranean 10/07)
- "Always", Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov's 4-5/07)
- "Electric Rains", Kathleen Ann Goonan (Eclipse One)
- "Catherine and the Satyr", Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons 10/07)
- "Singing of Mount Abora", Theodora Goss (Logorrhea)
- "Dead Horse Point", Daryl Gregory (Asimov's 8/07)
- "Unpossible", Daryl Gregory (F&SF 10-11/07)
- "Soul Case", Nalo Hopkinson (Foundation Summer '07)
- "Saving Tiamat", Gwyneth Jones (The New Space Opera)
- "The Tomb Wife", Gwyneth Jones (F&SF 8/07)
- "Graduation Afternoon", Stephen King (Postscripts Spring '07)
- "Save Me Plz", David Barr Kirtley (Realms of Fantasy 10/07)
- "Mrs. Zeno's Paradox", Ellen Klages (Eclipse One)
- "Art of War", Nancy Kress (The New Space Opera)
- "By Fools Like Me", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 9/07)
- "C-Rock City", Jay Lake & Greg Van Eekhout (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction)
- "Jesus Christ, Reanimator", Ken MacLeod (Fast Forward 1)
- "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?", Ken MacLeod (The New Space Opera)
- "Osama Phone Home", David Marusek (MIT Technology Review 3-4/07)
- "Sanjeev and Robotwallah", Ian McDonald (Fast Forward 1)
- "Verthandi's Ring", Ian McDonald (The New Space Opera)
- "The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large", Maureen F. McHugh (Eclipse One)
- "Fragrant Goddess", Paul Park (F&SF 10-11/07)
- "Three Days of Rain", Holly Phillips (Asimov's 6/07)
- "Artifice and Intelligence", Tim Pratt (Strange Horizons 8/6/07)
- "Magic with Thirteen-Year-Old Boys", Robert Reed (F&SF 3/07)
- "Holiday", M. Rickert (Subterranean 10/07)
- "Memoir of a Deer Woman", M. Rickert (F&SF 3/07)
- "Molly and the Red Hat", Benjamin Rosenbaum (Interzone 10/07)
- "Stray", Benjamin Rosenbaum & David Ackert (F&SF 12/07)
- "Objective Impermeability in a Closed System", William Shunn (An Alternate History of the 21st Century)
- "Strangers on a Bus", Jack Skillingstead (Asimov's 12/07)
- "A Trade in Serpents", Alan Smale (Realms of Fantasy 8/07)
- "Stone and the Librarian", William Browning Spencer (F&SF 2/07)
- "The Lustration", Bruce Sterling (Eclipse One)
- "A Plain Tale from Our Hills", Bruce Sterling (Subterranean Spring '07)
- "A Small Room in Koboldtown", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 4-5/07)
- "The Third Bear", Jeff VanderMeer (Clarkesworld 4/07)
- "The Great White Bed", Don Webb (F&SF 5/07)
- "Abigail and Chang", Harvey Welles & Philip Raines (Challenging Destiny 8/07)
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