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Recommended Reading 2000

This is the final version of Locus's Recommending Reading list of books and stories published in 2000, as published in the February 2001 issue of Locus Magazine.

Books listed are published in the US, and in 2000, unless otherwise indicated. Amazon links are provided when available.

Novels -- SF

Novels -- Fantasy

First Novels

Collections

Anthologies

Nonfiction

Art Books

Novellas

  • "Heart of Glass", William Barton, (Asimov's 1/2000)
  • Reality Dust, Stephen Baxter, (PS Publishing)
  • "Blue Kansas Sky", Michael Bishop, (Blue Kansas Sky)
  • "Seventy-two Letters", Ted Chiang, (Vanishing Acts)
  • "Crux", Albert E. Cowdrey, (F&SF 3/2000)
  • "A Place So Foreign", Cory Doctorow, (SF Age 1/2000)
  • "Oracle", Greg Egan, (Asimov's 7/2000)
  • "One-Eyed Jacks and Suicide Kings", R. García y Robertson, (Asimov's 8/2000)
  • "The Suspect Genome", Peter F. Hamilton, (Interzone 6/2000)
  • Watching Trees Grow, Peter F. Hamilton, (PS Publishing)
  • "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol", Elizabeth Hand, (Sci Fiction 12/6/00 - 12/27/00)
  • "Savior", Nancy Kress, (Asimov's 6/2000)
  • Naming of Parts, Tim Lebbon, (PS Publishing)
  • "Path of the Dragon", George R.R. Martin, (Asimov's 12/2000)
  • Making History, Paul J. McAuley, (PS Publishing)
  • Tendeléo's Story, Ian McDonald, (PS Publishing)
  • "Fly-by-Night", Larry Niven, (Asimov's 10-11/2000)
  • "The Forest Between the Worlds", G. David Nordley, (Asimov's 2/2000)
  • "Great Wall of Mars", Alastair Reynolds, (Spectrum SF 1 2/2000)
  • "The Retrieval Artist", Kristine Kathryn Rusch, (Analog 6/2000)
  • "Radiant Green Star", Lucius Shepard, (Asimov's 8/2000)
  • "The Enclave", Lois Tilton, (Asimov's 9/2000)
  • "To Leuchars", Rick Wilber, (Asimov's 9/2000)
  • "The Ultimate Earth", Jack Williamson, (Analog 12/2000)

Novelettes

  • "The Cloud Man", Eleanor Arnason, (Asimov's 10-11/2000)
  • "Open Loops", Stephen Baxter, (Skylife)
  • "On the Orion Line", Stephen Baxter, (Asimov's 10-11/2000)
  • "The Other Side", James P. Blaylock, (Sci Fiction 10/18/00)
  • "Liberty Spin", Keith Brooke, (Interzone 8/2000)
  • "The Alien Abduction", James L. Cambias, (F&SF 9/2000)
  • "The Elephants of Poznan", Orson Scott Card, (GalaxyOnline 1/2000)
  • "And Still She Sleeps", Greg Costikyan, (Black Heart, Ivory Bones)
  • "The True Story of Professor Trabuc and His Remarkable Voyages Aboard the Sonde-Ballon de la Mentalité", Jim Cowan, (Asimov's 1/2000)
  • "Bloody Bunnies", Bradley Denton, (F&SF 4/2000)
  • "The Saltimbanques", Terry Dowling, (Blackwater Days, Eidolon 29/30)
  • "Lincoln In Frogmore", Andy Duncan, (Beluthatchie and Other Stories)
  • "The Pottawatomie Giant", Andy Duncan, (Sci Fiction 11/1/2000)
  • "Milo and Sylvie", Eliot Fintushel, (Asimov's 3/2000)
  • "Bird Herding", R. García y Robertson, (F&SF 5/2000)
  • "Jack Daw's Pack", Greer Gilman, (Century 5 Winter 2000)
  • "Multim in Parvo", Michael Kandel, (Amazing Summer 2000)
  • "Feel the Zaz", James Patrick Kelly, (Asimov's 6/2000)
  • "The Juniper Tree", John Kessel, (SF Age 1/2000)
  • "Wetlands Preserve", Nancy Kress, (Sci Fiction 9/27/00)
  • "The Birthday of the World", Ursula K. Le Guin, (F&SF 6/2000)
  • "Chitty Bang Bang", Ian R. MacLeod, (Asimov's 6/2000)
  • "VTV", David Marusek, (Asimov's 3/2000)
  • "Reef", Paul J. McAuley, (Skylife)
  • "The Rift", Paul J. McAuley, (Vanishing Acts)
  • "Auspicious Eggs", James Morrow, (F&SF 10-11/2000)
  • "In Shock", Joyce Carol Oates, (F&SF 6/2000)
  • "Going After Bobo", Susan Palwick, (Asimov's 5/2000)
  • "The God of Children", Richard Parks, (Asimov's 12/2000)
  • "The Noise of Their Joye", Tom Purdom, (Asimov's 5/2000)
  • "Romance in Extended Time", Tom Purdom, (Asimov's 3/2000)
  • "Sergeant Mother Glory", Tom Purdom, (Asimov's 10-11/2000)
  • "The Gulf", Robert Reed, (F&SF 10-11/2000)
  • "Hybrid", Robert Reed, (F&SF, 7/2000)
  • "The Prophet Ugly", Robert Reed, (Asimov's 4/2000)
  • "Merlin's Gun", Alastair Reynolds, (Asimov's 5/2000)
  • "Hideaway", Alastair Reynolds, (Interzone 7/2000)
  • "Millennium Babies", Kristine Kathryn Rusch, (Asimov's 1/2000)
  • "Tenebrio", Brian Stableford, (Vanishing Acts)
  • "Primes", Lewis Shiner, (F&SF 10-11/2000)
  • "Chanterelle", Brian Stableford, (Black Heart, Ivory Bones)
  • "Snowball in Hell", Brian Stableford, (Analog 12/2000)
  • "A Colder War", Charles Stross, (Spectrum SF 3)
  • "Chain of Life", Steven Utley, (Asimov's 10-11/2000)
  • "The Real World", Steven Utley, (Sci Fiction 9/6/00)
  • "The Despoblado", Steven Utley, (Sci Fiction 11/22/00)
  • "The Dryad's Wedding", Robert Charles Wilson, (Star Colonies)

Short Stories

  • "Chimera 8", Daniel Abraham, (Vanishing Acts)
  • "Steppenpferd", Brian W. Aldiss, (F&SF 2/2000)
  • "Sheena 5", Stephen Baxter, (Analog 5/2000)
  • "Silver Ghost", Stephen Baxter, (Asimov's 9/2000)
  • "The Sky Tower", Barrington J. Bayley, (Spectrum SF 2 4/2000)
  • "The Thing About Benny", M. Shayne Bell, (Vanishing Acts)
  • "How Beautiful With Banners", Michael Bishop, (Century #6, Spring 2000)
  • "Lucy", Terry Bisson, (Playboy 2/2000)
  • "The War of the Worlds", James P. Blaylock, (Sci Fiction 6/9/00)
  • "Fidelity: A Primer", Michael Blumlein, (F&SF 9/2000)
  • "A Serpent in Eden", Simon Brown & Alison Tokley, (Eidolon 29/30)
  • "A Diagram of Rapture", James L. Cambias, (F&SF 4/2000)
  • "The Reluctant Book", Paul Di Filippo, (SF Age 5/2000)
  • "The Rebranding of Billy Bailey", Cory Doctorow, (Interzone 8/2000)
  • "Reality Check", David Brin, (Nature 3/16/00)
  • "Catching Crumbs from the Table", Ted Chiang, (Nature 6/1/00)
  • "Patient Zero", Tananarive Due, (F&SF 8/2000)
  • "Fenneman's Mouth", Andy Duncan, (Beluthatchie and Other Stories)
  • "Malthusian's Zombie", Jeffrey Ford, (Sci Fiction 6/9/00)
  • "The Fantasy Writer's Assistant", Jeffrey Ford, (F&SF 2/2000)
  • "The Far Oasis", Jeffrey Ford, (Sci Fiction 10/25/00)
  • "The Neon Heart Murders", M. John Harrison, (F&SF 4/2000)
  • "Greedy Choke Puppy", Nalo Hopkinson, (Dark Matter)
  • "Partial Eclipse", Graham Joyce, (Sci Fiction 8/9/00)
  • "The Royals Of Hegn", Ursula K. Le Guin, (Asimov's 2/2000)
  • "The Flyers Of Gy", Ursula K. Le Guin, (Sci Fiction 11/08/00)
  • "Pause/Time", Mary Soon Lee, (Spectrum SF #4)
  • "The Eye In The Heart", Tanith Lee, (F&SF 3/2000)
  • "Two Sleepers", Ian R. MacLeod, (Century #6, Spring 2000)
  • "Interstitial", Paul J. McAuley, (Asimov's 7/2000)
  • "Colours of the Soul", Sean McMullen, (Interzone 2/2000)
  • "The Missing Mass", Larry Niven, (Analog 12/2000)
  • "The Cure For Everything", Severna Park, (Sci Fiction 6/2000)
  • "The Golem", Severna Park, (Black Heart, Ivory Bones)
  • "Frank", Robert Reed, (Interzone 4/2000)
  • "Grandma's Jumpman", Robert Reed, (Century 6, Spring 2000)
  • "Birdy Girl", Robert Reed, (Sci Fiction 09/20/00)
  • "Upstream", James Sallis, (Amazing Summer 2000)
  • "The Fire Eggs", Darrell Schweitzer, (Interzone 3/2000)
  • "Magic, Maples, and Maryanne", Robert Sheckley, (F&SF 10-11/2000)
  • "The Art of Fugue", Charles Sheffield, (Asimov's 6/2000)
  • "The Millennial Express", Robert Silverberg, (Playboy 1/2000)
  • "Madame Bovary, c'est moi", Dan Simmons, (Nature 9/14/00)
  • "Tuberculosis Bacteria Join the UN", Joan Slonczewski, (Nature 6/29/00)
  • "Mom and Dad at the Home Front", Sherwood Smith, (Realms of Fantasy 8/2000)
  • "The Foster Child", William Browning Spencer, (F&SF 6/2000)
  • "The Last Supper", Brian Stableford, (SF Age 3/2000)
  • "Victims", Brian Stableford, (SF Age 1/2000)
  • "The Mandrake Garden", Brian Stableford, (F&SF 7/2000)
  • "Antibodies", Charles Stross, (Interzone 7/2000)
  • "Bear Trap", Charles Stross, (Spectrum SF 1 2/2000)
  • "Moon Dogs", Michael Swanwick, (Moon Dogs)
  • "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O", Michael Swanwick, (Tales of Old Earth)
  • "Tinkerbell is Dying", John Alfred Taylor, (Asimov's 9/2000)
  • "Our Mortal Span", Howard Waldrop, (Black Heart, Ivory Bones)
  • "Winter Quarters", Howard Waldrop, (Sci Fiction 08/02/00)
  • "A Ghost of an Affair", Jane Yolen, (Realms Of Fantasy 6/2000)
  • "Snow in Summer", Jane Yolen, (Black Heart, Ivory Bones)
  • "Under the Hill", Jane Yolen, (Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories)
  • "The Window", Zoran Zivkovic, (Interzone 2/2000)

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