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Best of 1999: San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle's choices for the best science fiction books of the year (selected by SF reviewer Michael Berry) are:

William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Putnam)

Lisa Goldstein, Dark Cities Underground (Tor)

Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio (Del Rey)

Diana Wynne Jones, Deep Secret (Tor

Orson Scott Card, Enchantment (Del Rey)

Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis (Scribner)

Peter Straub, Mr. X (Random House)

Frank M. Robinson, Waiting (Forge)

Al Sarrantonio, ed., 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense (Avon)

The paper also ran a reader poll for the Best in the West Top 100 Fiction and Nonfiction, of works about, or by authors from, the western US. Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness is 21st on the fiction list; George Stewart's Earth Abides 26th; Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle 57th; Frank Herbert's Dune 94th. Books by Theodora Kroeber, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ambrose Bierce make the nonfiction list.

(Tue 23 Nov 1999)

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