![](../../graphics/line2x370.gif) |
NEWS
LINKS
news, magazines, webzines
|
![](../../graphics/spacer.gif) |
![](../../graphics/spacer.gif) |
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)
Also, Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is named on the best in fiction list, with Marina Warner's No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock included among the best in nonfiction, and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban among the year's best children's fiction books.
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)
NOVEMBER page 1
World Fantasy Awards winners
PW's Best Books of 1999
OCTOBER page 2
Stephen King's forthcoming audiobook
Caleb Carr serial in Time magazine
OCTOBER page 1
Writer's Digest 100 Best Writers of the Century
Amazon.com's Best Books of the Century
Aurora Awards
Spectrum Awards
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
SEPTEMBER page 3
Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1930 - 1999
HarperCollins restructures, cuts jobs
British Fantasy Awards
David Karp, 1922 - 1999
SEPTEMBER page 2
Other Awards winners: Ditmar, Seiun, Sidewise, Prometheus, Golden Duck, Big Heart
SEPTEMBER page 1
Hugo Awards winners
AUGUST page 2
James White, 1928 - 1999
World Fantasy Awards final ballot
AUGUST page 1
Mythopoeic Awards winners
JULY page 3
Alison Spedding imprisoned
George ''Lan'' Laskowski dies
Stephen King recovering
Odyssey folds
Alan Dean Foster's motorcycle scrape
Ellen Datlow CoA
SF University degree
JULY page 2
Campbell, Sturgeon Awards winners
JULY page 1
Locus Awards winners
JUNE page 3
Clifton Fadiman dies
Stephen King injured, hospitalized
Mythopoeic Awards nominations
Avon and Morrow sold
JUNE page 2
Bram Stoker Awards winners
Prix Tour Eiffel
Robert Sobel dies
Spectrum Awards finalists
JUNE page 1
Barnes & Noble acquisition of Ingram cancelled
Bradbury and Silverberg to enter Hall of Fame
Sturgeon Award finalists
MAY page 3
Random House reorganizes
Harlan Ellison wins Audie Awards
Tricia Sullivan wins Clarke Award
Online price wars
Millennial books
Kurd Lasswitz Awards
Conventions reports (links)
MAY page 2
Italia Awards winners
Analog and Asimov's Readers Awards
HOMer Awards
Sidewise nominations
MAY page 1
Nebula Awards winners
|
![](../../graphics/spacer.gif) |