NYT Best SF, Fantasy, and Horror of 2024

The New York Times published lists of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2024 and the Best Horror of 2024, compiled by critics Amal El-Mohtar and Gabino Iglesias respectively.

El-Mohtar’s top ten picks are:

• The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House)
• Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• In Universes, Emet North (HarperCollins)
• The Melancholy of Untold History, Minsoo Kang (Morrow)
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
• The Mercy of Gods, James S.A. Corey (Orbit)
• Those Beyond the Wall, Micaiah Johnson (Del Rey)
• The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey)
• Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit)

For more, see the NYT site.

Iglesias’s top ten horror picks are:

• Not a Speck of Light: Stories, Laird Barron (Bad Hand)
• You Like It Darker: Stories, Stephen King (Scribner)
• The Eyes Are the Best Part, Monika Kim (Erewhon)
• Woodworm, Layla Martínez (Two Lines)
• Model Home, Rivers Solomon (MCD)
• Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories, Sarah Coolidge, ed.
• Remedy, J.S. Breukelaar (PS Publishing)
• She’s Always Hungry: Stories, Eliza Clark (Harper Perennial)
• Blood Like Mine, Stuart Neville (Hell’s Hundred)
• The Unmothers, Leslie J. Anderson (Quirk)

For more, see the NYT site.

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