2010 Locus Recommended Reading List

The 2010 Recommended Reading List is here! As well as directing you to the main list, I’d also like to highlight the short fiction that’s currently available online:

Novellas

• The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean Press)
• The Taborin Scale, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean Press)
• “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window“, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’10)

Novelettes

• “A Jar of Goodwill“, Tobias S. Buckell (Clarkesworld 5/10)
• “Braiding the Ghosts“, C. S. E. Cooney (Clockwork Phoenix 3)
• “The Cage“, A.M. Dellamonica (Tor.com 7/28/10)
• “The Mad Scientist’s Daughter“, Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons 1/18-1/25/10)
• “Brownian Emotion“, Tom Holt (Subterranean Spring ’10)
• “Pupa“, David D. Levine (Analog 10/10)
• “The Literomancer“, Ken Liu (F&SF 9-10/10)
• “WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!“, Meghan McCarron (Strange Horizons 5/3-5/10/10)
• “The Naturalist“, Maureen McHugh (Subterranean Spring ’10)
• “Amor Vincit Omnia“, K.J. Parker (Subterranean, Summer ’10)
• “The Bodhisattvas“, Gord Sellar (Subterranean Spring ’10)
• “The Unorthodox Dr. Draper“, William Browning Spencer (Subterranean Fall ’10)
• “Butterfly and the Blight at the Heart of the World“, Lavie Tidhar (Daily Science Fiction 9/3/10)

Short Stories

• “The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model“, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 8/11/10)
• “Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory“, Paul M. Berger (Fantasy 6/21/10)
• “Under the Moons of Venus“, Damien Broderick (Subterranean Spring ’10)
• “The Duke of Vertumn’s Fingerling“, Elizabeth Carroll (Strange Horizons 4/5/10)
• “The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening“, Cory Doctorow (Shareable 5/25/10)
• “The Green Book“, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex 11/1/10)
• “The Interior of Mister Bumblethorn’s Coat“, Willow Fagan (Fantasy 10/11/10)
• “Fair Ladies“, Theodora Goss (Apex 8/2/10)
• “The Red Bride“, Samantha Henderson (Strange Horizons 7/5/10)
• “Futures in the Memories Market“, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Clarkesworld 6/10)
• “In-Fall“, Ted Kosmatka (Lightspeed 12/10)
• “Between Two Dragons“, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 4/10)
• “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain“, Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed 9/10)
• “Second Journey of the Magus“, Ian R. MacLeod (Subterranean Winter ’10)
• “The Courtship of the Queen“, Bruce McAllister (Tor.com 5/5/10)
• “Beach Blanket Spaceship“, Sandra McDonald (Clarkesworld 7/10)
• “Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots“, Sandra McDonald (Strange Horizons 10/4/10)
• “The Isthmus Variation“, Kris Millering (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 7/1/10)
• “Clockwork Fairies“, Cat Rambo (Tor.com 8/20/10)
• “Elegy for a Young Elk“, Hannu Rajaniemi (Subterranean Spring ’10)
• “The Cull“, Robert Reed (Clarkesworld 9/10)
• “The Exterminator’s Want-Ad“, Bruce Sterling (Shareable 6/22/10)
• “The Monster’s Million Faces“, Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 9/8/10)
• “The Stable Master’s Tale“, Rachel Swirsky (Fantasy 7/5/10)
• “The Night Train“, Lavie Tidhar (Strange Horizons 6/14/10)
• “The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String“, Lavie Tidhar (Fantasy 5/17/10)
• “Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)“, Ian Tregillis (Apex 10/4/10)
• “What Doctor Gottlieb Saw“, Ian Tregillis (Tor.com 6/8/10)
• “How to Become a Mars Overlord“, Catherynne M. Valente (Lightspeed 8/10)
• “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time“, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 8/10)
• “The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball“, Genevieve Valentine (Lightspeed 7/10)
• “Amarylis“, Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed 6/10)
• “The Things“, Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)
• “The Children of Main Street“, A.C. Wise (Clarkesworld 12/10)
• “Standard Loneliness Package“, Charlie Yu (Lightspeed 11/10)

Wow, that’s a lot of quality fiction. Please let me know if I’ve missed anything that’s available online. Also, I’m thinking of putting together a mini-Roundtable discussion about a few of the short stories–if there any you’d like discussed in more depth, please mention it in the comments, thanks!