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Recommended Reading: 2001
This is the final version of Locus's Recommending Reading list of books and stories published in 2001, compiled from Locus reviewers and other critics.
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Novels Science Fiction
- The Merchants of Souls, John Barnes (Tor)
- Origin: Manifold 3, Stephen Baxter (Voyager; as Manifold: Origin Del Rey 2002)
- The Pickup Artist, Terry Bisson (Tor)
- Dervish is Digital, Pat Cadigan (Macmillan 2000; Tor)
- Shadow of the Hegemon, Orson Scott Card (Tor)
- Defender, C.J. Cherryh (DAW)
- Appleseed, John Clute (Orbit; Tor)
- Metaplanetary, Tony Daniel (Eos)
- A Paradigm of Earth, Candas Jane Dorsey (Tor)
- Probability Sun, Nancy Kress (Tor)
- Angel of Destruction, Susan R. Matthews (Roc)
- The Secret of Life, Paul McAuley (Voyager; Tor)
- Whole Wide World, Paul McAuley (Voyager; Tor 2002)
- Nekropolis, Maureen F. McHugh (Eos)
- Cosmonaut Keep, Ken MacLeod (Orbit 2000; Tor)
- Dark Light, Ken MacLeod (Orbit; Tor)
- Eyes of the Calculor, Sean McMullen (Tor)
- Limit of Vision, Linda Nagata (Tor)
- Chasm City, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace 2002)
- Ship of Fools, Richard Paul Russo (Ace)
- The Cassandra Complex, Brian Stableford (Tor)
- Maelstrom, Peter Watts (Tor)
- Passage, Connie Willis (Bantam)
- Terraforming Earth, Jack Williamson (Tor)
- The Chronoliths, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
- Return to the Whorl, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- Going, Going, Gone, Jack Womack (Voyager 2000; Grove Press)
Novels Fantasy
- Mother of Kings, Poul Anderson (Tor)
- Coldheart Canyon, Clive Barker (HarperCollins UK; HarperCollins)
- The House in the High Wood, Jeffrey E. Barlough (Ace)
- From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury (Morrow)
- The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos)
- The Hauntings of Hood Canal, Jack Cady (St. Martin’s)
- The Wooden Sea, Jonathan Carroll (Tor)
- The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint (Tor)
- The Wounded Hawk, Sara Douglass (HarperCollins Australia)
- The Beyond, Jeffrey Ford (Eos)
- American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow)
- Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris (Ace)
- Fool’s Errand, Robin Hobb (Voyager; Bantam Spectra)
- Past the Size of Dreaming, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace)
- Rebel’s Cage, Kate Jacoby (Gollancz)
- Bold as Love, Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz)
- Smoking Poppy, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Pocket 2002)
- The Shadows of God, J. Gregory Keyes (Del Rey)
- Black House, Stephen King & Peter Straub (Random House)
- The Other Wind, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
- Lost, Gregory Maguire (HarperCollins)
- The Dreamthief’s Daughter, Michael Moorcock (Earthlight; Warner Aspect)
- Lirael, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin Australia; HarperCollins)
- Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
- The One Kingdom, Sean Russell (Orbit; Eos)
- Otherland: Sea of Silver Light, Tad Williams (DAW)
First Novels
- The Love-Artist, Jane Alison (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Inca, Suzanne Allés Blom (Forge)
- Swim the Moon, Paul Brandon (Tor)
- Kushiel’s Dart, Jacqueline Carey (Tor)
- The Ill-Made Mute, Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Warner Aspect)
- The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde (Hodder & Stoughton; Viking 2002)
- Ill Met by Moonlight, Sarah A. Hoyt (Ace)
- Eccentric Circles, Rebecca Lickiss (Ace)
- Illumination, Terry McGarry (Tor)
- Dance of Knives, Donna McMahon (Tor)
- Enemy Glory, Karen Michalson (Tor)
- Archangel Protocol, Lyda Morehouse (Roc)
- Children of the Shaman, Jessica Rydill (Orbit)
- Alien Taste, Wen Spencer (Roc)
- The Ghost Sister, Liz Williams (Bantam Spectra)
- Divine Intervention, Ken Wharton (Ace)
Collections
- The Complete Short Stories, J.G. Ballard (Flamingo)
- Thirteen Phantasms, James P. Blaylock (Edgewood Press)
- From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown, Fredric Brown (NESFA Press)
- Bad Timing and Other Stories, Molly Brown (Big Engine)
- The Collected Stories, Arthur C. Clarke (Gollancz; Tor)
- Jubilee, Jack Dann (Voyager Australia)
- The Other Nineteenth Century, Avram Davidson (Tor)
- Strange Trades, Paul Di Filippo (Golden Gryphon)
- Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois, Gardner Dozois (NESFA Press)
- Redgunk Tales, William R. Eakin (Invisible Cities Press)
- 50 In 50, Harry Harrison (Tor)
- Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson (Warner Aspect)
- Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities, Geoffrey A. Landis (Golden Gryphon)
- Tales From Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
- Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)
- Claremont Tales, Richard A. Lupoff (Golden Gryphon)
- Quartet, George R.R. Martin (NESFA Press)
- Futureland, Walter Mosley (Warner Aspect)
- Other Voices, Other Doors, Patrick O’Leary (Fairwood Press)
- The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists, Norman Partridge (Night Shade Books)
- Night Moves and Other Stories, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press)
- Stories for an Enchanted Afternoon, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Golden Gryphon)
- Trigger & Friends, James H. Schmitz (Baen)
- The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn: Volume One, Immodest Proposals; Volume Two, Here Comes Civilization, William Tenn (NESFA Press)
- City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris, Jeff VanderMeer (Cosmos Books)
- The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge, Vernor Vinge (Tor)
- Meet Me in the Moon Room, Ray Vukcevich (Small Beer Press)
Anthologies
- Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century, Orson Scott Card, ed. (Ace)
- Night Visions 10, Richard Chizmar, ed. (Subterranean Press)
- Futures, Peter Crowther, ed. (Gollancz; Warner Aspect)
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin’s)
- Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s)
- Year’s Best Fantasy, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)
- Year’s Best SF 6, David G. Hartwell, ed. (Eos)
- Starlight 3, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed. (Tor)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume 12, Stephen Jones, ed. (Robinson; Carroll & Graf)
- The SFWA Grand Masters, Vol. 3, Frederik Pohl, ed. (Tor)
- Redshift, Al Sarrantonio, ed. (Roc)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2001, Robert Silverberg, ed. (Harcourt)
- The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century, Harry Turtledove & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (Del Rey)
- The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, Harry Turtledove & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (Del Rey)
- A Woman’s Liberation, Connie Willis & Sheila Williams, eds. (Warner Aspect)
Non-Fiction
- The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press 2000)
- Deep Future, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
- Storyteller: The Official Orson Scott Card Bibliography and Guide, Michael R. Collings (Overlook Connection Press)
- Meditations on Middle-Earth, Karen Haber, ed. (St. Martin’s)
- The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene, Mavis Haut (McFarland)
- Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction, S.T. Joshi (Liverpool University Press)
- What if Our World is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick, Gwen Lee & Doris Elaine Sauter, eds. (Overlook Press)
- The Martian Named Smith: Critical Perspectives on Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, William H. Patterson, Jr. & Andrew Thornton (Nitrosyncretic Press)
- Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others, E. Hoffmann Price (Arkham House)
- Being Gardner Dozois, Michael Swanwick (Old Earth Books)
- Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction, Gary Westfahl, ed. (Greenwood Press)
- Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction 1820-1950, Neil Wilson (The British Library)
- Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children’s Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter, Jack Zipes (Routledge)
Art
- Nick Bantock, The Artful Dodger: Images & Reflections (Chronicle Books)
- Chesley Bonestell, The Art of Chesley Bonestell, Ron Miller & Frederick C. Durant III (Paper Tiger)
- Fantasy of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History, Randy Broecker (Collectors Press)
- Brom, Offerings: The Art of Brom (Paper Tiger)
- Spectrum 8: The Best in Contemporary Fantasy Art, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
- Frank Frazetta, Testament: The Life and Art of Frank Frazetta, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
- Fred Gambino, Ground Zero (Paper Tiger)
- Dark Dreamers: Facing the Masters of Fear, Beth Gwinn & Stanley Wiater (CD Publications)
- The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines, Peter Haining (Prion Books 2000; Chicago Review Press)
- The Great American Paperback, Richard A. Lupoff (Collectors Press)
- David A. Hardy, Hardyware: The Art of David A. Hardy, Chris Morgan (Paper Tiger)
- Michael Kaluta, Wings of Twilight: The Art of Michael Kaluta (NBM)
- Tom Kidd, The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells (Books of Wonder)
- Paul Kidby, The Last Hero, Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
- Richard Powers, The Art of Richard Powers, Jane Frank (Paper Tiger)
- Sergey Poyarkov, Balance of Contradictions (Poyarkov)
- Shaun Tan, The Red Tree (Lothian)
- Stephen Youll, The Art of Stephen Youll: Paradox (Paper Tiger)
Novellas
- ‘‘The Caravan from Troon’’, Kage Baker (Asimov’s 8/01)
- ‘‘Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl’s’’, Adam-Troy Castro (Analog 6/01)
- ‘‘May Be Some Time’’, Brenda W. Clough (Analog 4/01)
- ‘‘The Diamond Pit’’, Jack Dann (Jubilee; F&SF 6/01)
- ‘‘Karuna, Inc.’’, Paul Di Filippo (Strange Trades, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Spring 2001)
- ‘‘The Chief Designer’’, Andy Duncan (Asimov’s 6/01)
- ‘‘Cleopatra Brimstone’’, Elizabeth Hand (Redshift)
- ‘‘The Finder’’, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tales From Earthsea)
- ‘‘Silent Her’’, Barry Longyear (Sci Fiction 2/7/01)
- ‘‘New Light on the Drake Equation’’, Ian R. MacLeod, (Sci Fiction 5/2/01)
- ‘‘Glacial’’, Alastair Reynolds (Spectrum SF #5)
- ‘‘Eternity and Afterward’’, Lucius Shepard (F&SF 3/01)
- ‘‘Stealing Alabama’’, Allen Steele (Asimov’s 1/01)
- ‘‘Fast Times at Fairmont High’’, Vernor Vinge (The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge)
- ‘‘Yesterday’s Tomorrows’’, Kate Wilhelm (F&SF 9/01)
- ‘‘deck.halls@boughs/holly’’, Connie Willis, (Asimov’s 12/01)
- ‘‘Viewpoint’’, Gene Wolfe (Redshift)
Novelettes
- ‘‘The Lady of the Winds’’, Poul Anderson (F&SF 10-11/01)
- ‘‘The Applesauce Monster’’, Kage Baker (Asimov’s 12/01)
- ‘‘Monster Story’’, Kage Baker (Asimov’s 6/01)
- ‘‘Standing in His Light’’, Kage Baker (Sci Fiction 7/25/01)
- ‘‘Rhido Wars’’, Neal Barrett, Jr. (Redshift)
- ‘‘First to the Moon!’’, Stephen Baxter & Simon Bradshaw (Spectrum SF #6)
- ‘‘In the Un-Black’’, Stephen Baxter, (Redshift)
- ‘‘The Old Rugged Cross’’, Terry Bisson (Starlight 3)
- ‘‘Know How, Can Do’’, Michael Blumlein (F&SF 12/01)
- ‘‘The Ferryman’s Wife’’, Richard Bowes (F&SF 5/01)
- ‘‘The Kéthani Inheritance’’, Eric Brown (Spectrum SF #7)
- ‘‘Life on Earth’’, Pat Cadigan (Sci Fiction 12/19/01)
- ‘‘Roach Motel’’, Richard Calder (Interzone 4/01)
- ‘‘More Adventures on Other Planets’’, Michael Cassutt (Sci Fiction 1/10/01)
- ‘‘Hell Is the Absence of God’’, Ted Chiang (Starlight 3)
- ‘‘The Measure of All Things’’, Richard Chwedyk (F&SF 1/01)
- ‘‘Doing the Unstuck’’, Paul Di Filippo (F&SF 5/01)
- ‘‘Neutrino Drag’’, Paul Di Filippo (Sci Fiction 8/1/01)
- ‘‘The Scab’s Progress’’, Paul Di Filippo & Bruce Sterling (Sci Fiction 1/3/01)
- ‘‘Floating in Lindrethool’’, Jeffrey Ford (Sci Fiction 6/13/01)
- ‘‘The Real Thing, ‘‘ Carolyn Ives Gilman (F&SF 7/01)
- ‘‘The Go-Between’’, Lisa Goldstein (Asimov’s 3/01)
- ‘‘Into Greenwood’’, Jim Grimsley (Asimov’s 9/01)
- ‘‘Struwwelpeter’’, Glen Hirshberg (Sci Fiction 11/28/01)
- ‘‘Menage’’, Simon Ings (Asimov’s 10-11/01)
- ‘‘Undone’’, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s 6/01)
- ‘‘And No Such Things Grow Here’’, Nancy Kress (Asimov’s 6/01)
- ‘‘Computer Virus’’, Nancy Kress, (Asimov’s 4/01)
- ‘‘On the High Marsh’’, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tales From Earthsea)
- This Shape We’re In, Jonathan Lethem (McSweeney’s Books)
- ‘‘Speedstream’’, James Lovegrove (Interzone 1/01)
- ‘‘Isabel of the Fall’’, Ian R. MacLeod (Interzone 7/01)
- ‘‘The Two Dicks’’, Paul McAuley (F&SF 8/01)
- ‘‘Resurrection’’, David Morrell (Redshift)
- ‘‘The Cat’s Pajamas’’, James Morrow (F&SF 10-11/01)
- ‘‘Legerdemain’’, Jack O’Connell (F&SF 10-11/01)
- ‘‘Commencement’’, Joyce Carol Oates (Redshift)
- ‘‘Cucumber Gravy’’, Susan Palwick (Sci Fiction 1/24/01)
- ‘‘Gestella’’, Susan Palwick (Starlight 3)
- ‘‘Civilians’’, Tom Purdom (Asimov’s 8/01)
- ‘‘Romance with Phobic Variations’’, Tom Purdom (Asimov’s 2/01)
- ‘‘The Boy’’, Robert Reed (Asimov’s 10-11/01)
- ‘‘One Last Game’’, Robert Reed (F&SF 8/01)
- ‘‘Mirror’’, Robert Reed (Asimov’s 1/01)
- ‘‘Raven Dream’’, Robert Reed (F&SF 12/01)
- ‘‘Firebird’’, R. Garcia y Robertson (F&SF 5/01)
- ‘‘The Dread and Fear of Kings’’, Richard Paul Russo (Sci Fiction 10/24/01)
- ‘‘Have Not Have’’, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 4/01)
- ‘‘When This World is All on Fire’’, William Sanders (Asimov’s 10-11/01)
- ‘‘Shiomah’s Land’’, Nisi Shawl (Asimov’s 3/01)
- ‘‘The Quijote Robot’’, Robert Sheckley (F&SF 12/01)
- ‘‘First Contact National Monument’’, Rick Shelley (Analog 12/01)
- ‘‘On K2 with Kanakaredes’’, Dan Simmons (Redshift)
- ‘‘The Days Between’’, Allen Steele (Asimov’s 3/01)
- ‘‘Lobsters’’, Charles Stross (Asimov’s 6/01)
- ‘‘Troubadour’’, Charles Stross (Asimov’s 10-11/01)
- ‘‘The Return of Spring’’, Shane Tourtellotte (Analog 11/01)
- ‘‘From Here You Can See the Sunquists’’, Richard Wadholm (Asimov’s 1/01)
- ‘‘The Other Real World’’, Howard Waldrop (Sci Fiction 7/18/ 01)
- ‘‘Major Spacer in the 21st Century’’, Howard Waldrop (Dream Factories and Radio Pictures)
Short Stories
- ‘‘As Sweet’’, Daniel Abraham (Realms of Fantasy 12/01)
- ‘‘Exclusion’’, Daniel Abraham (Asimov’s 2/01)
- ‘‘Ave de Paso’’, Catherine Asaro (Redshift)
- ‘‘Flickering’’, Ayerdhal, (Interzone 5/01)
- ‘‘Restoring the Balance, 2’’ Tony Ballantyne (Interzone 6/01)
- ‘‘Grey Earth’’, Stephen Baxter (Asimov’s 12/01)
- ‘‘The Ghost Pit’’, Stephen Baxter (Asimov’s 7/01)
- ‘‘Marcher’’, Chris Beckett (Interzone 10/01)
- ‘‘Refugees from Nulongwe’’, M. Shayne Bell, (Sci Fiction 4/18/01)
- ‘‘Anomalies’’, Gregory Benford, (Redshift)
- ‘‘Charlie’s Angels’’, Terry Bisson (Sci Fiction 8/15/01)
- ‘‘His Own Back Yard’’, James P. Blaylock (Sci Fiction 7/11/01)
- ‘‘Small Houses’’, James P. Blaylock (Sci Fiction 10/10/01)
- ‘‘Ascent of Man’’, Eric Brown (Interzone 5/01)
- ‘‘The God of Dark Laughter’’, Michael Chabon (The New Yorker, 4/09/01)
- ‘‘The Second Question’’, Mat Coward (Interzone 7/01)
- ‘‘The Shadow’’, Thomas M. Disch (F&SF 12/01)
- ‘‘The Lagan Fishers’’, Terry Dowling (Sci Fiction 4/11/01)
- ‘‘Senator Bilbo’’, Andy Duncan (Starlight 3)
- ‘‘The Ground He Stood On’’, J.R. Dunn, (Analog 7-8/01)
- ‘‘Incognita, Inc.’’, Harlan Ellison (Hemispheres 1/01; Realms of Fantasy 8/01)
- ‘‘Creature’’, Carol Emshwiller (F&SF 10-11/01)
- ‘‘The Carpetmaker’s Son’’, Andreas Eschbach (F&SF 1/01)
- ‘‘The Honeyed Knot’’, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 5/01)
- ‘‘The Invisible Hand Rolls the Dice’’, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Interzone 10/01)
- ‘‘Russian Vine’’, Simon Ings (Sci Fiction 6/6/01)
- ‘‘Mayhem Tours’’, Michael Kandel (F&SF 9/01)
- ‘‘Unique Visitors’’, James Patrick Kelly (Redshift)
- ‘‘What We Did That Summer’’, Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg (Redshift)
- ‘‘The Bones of the Earth’’, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tales From Earthsea)
- ‘‘The Building’’, Ursula K. Le Guin (Redshift)
- ‘‘My Case for Retributive Action’’, Thomas Ligotti (Weird Tales Summer 2001)
- ‘‘Our Temporary Supervisor’’, Thomas Ligotti (Weird Tales Fall 2001)
- ‘‘Cut’’, Megan Lindholm (Asimov’s 5/01)
- ‘‘Interview: On Any Given Day’’, Maureen F. McHugh (Starlight 3)
- ‘‘A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club’’, Michael Moorcock (Redshift)
- ‘‘Little Brother’’, Walter Mosley (Futureland; F&SF 12/01)
- ‘‘Latency Time’’, Ruth Nestvold (Asimov’s 7/01)
- ‘‘The Black Heart’’, Patrick O’Leary (Sci Fiction 8/8/01)
- ‘‘Self-Portrait, with Melanoma, Final Draft’’, Paul Park (Interzone 5/01)
- ‘‘Green England’’, David Redd (Spectrum SF #7)
- ‘‘The Milk of Human Kindness’’, Brian Stableford, (Analog 3/01)
- ‘‘The Dog Said Bow-Wow’’, Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s 10-11/01)
- ‘‘Queen of Thieves’’, Michael Thomas (F&SF 2/01)
- ‘‘Prisoner Exchange’’, Lois Tilton (Asimov’s 9/01)
- ‘‘The Exchange’’ by Nicholas Sporlander, Jeff VanderMeer (Hoegbotton & Sons)
- ‘‘The Infodict’’, James Van Pelt (Asimov’s 8/01)
- ‘‘Non-Disclosure Agreement’’, Scott Westerfeld (Sci Fiction 10/3/01)
- ‘‘Aotearoa’’, Cherry Wilder (Asimov’s 10-11/01)
- ‘‘In Glory Like Their Star’’, Gene Wolfe (F&SF 10-11/01)
- ‘‘Queen’’, Gene Wolfe (Realms of Fantasy 12/01)
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