What SF/F/H Books Are You Looking Forward to in the New Year?
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 at
12:20 am
As I’m compiling my end-of-the-year post, it occurs to me that there we a lot of really enjoyable books published this year. And next year is shaping up to be equally full of good reads.
So a quickie question in the slow week before 2011: What SF/F/H Books Are You Looking Forward to in the New Year?
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The Wise Man’s Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2) by Patrick Rothfuss
http://WWW.Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer
The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card
How to Write Magical Words A Writer’s Companion
I am looking forward to:-
Recollection by Gareth L. Powell
The Noise Revealed by Ian Whates
Remembered Earth: Poseidon’s Children Book 1 by Alastair Reynolds
Ascendant Stars by Michael Cobley
Phil
I’m looking forward to (and, in fact, I have already preordered all of them):
Embassytown, by China Miéville
Blue Remembered Earth, by Alastair Reynolds
Orthogonal, by Greg Egan
and, of course:
A Dance with Dragons, by George R.R. Martin (if it finaly comes out in 2011).
The Wise Man’s Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2) by Patrick Rothfuss (Mar 1, 2011)
Halo: Cryptum: Book One of the Forerunner Saga by Greg Bear (January 4th 2011)
I’m curious about The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. (I’m in the US)
I know it’s already out, but I’ve only just learned of the Songs of the Dying Earth. I won’t be getting it until the new year, so does that count?
As another commented above, The Lost Gate is also on my list of things to look forward to.
I’m looking forward to WTF: The sequel by Mousehands Kestrelbomb the most. jv
Waiting, like a child waiting for Christmas morning, for Gene Wolfe’s Home Fires. I’ll also pick up China Mieville’s Embassytown and C.S.E. Cooney’s The Big Bah-Ha.
Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge!
The biggest one for me is Christopher Priest’s first novel in ten years, The Islanders, though we have to wait until October for it. Otherwise Scott Bakker’s The White Luck Warrior, Daniel Abraham’s The Dragon’s Path and Leviathan Wakes, Peadar O Guilin’s The Deserter, Embassytown by Mieville, Paul Kearney’s Kings of Morning and Adam Roberts’s By Light Alone. I’ve also heard good things about Mary Gentle’s Black Opera, Mark Lawrence’s Prince of Thorns and Brian Ruckley’s The Edinburgh Dead. It could be a total car crash, but I’ll also at least take a look at the ‘new’ Mervyn Peake Gormenghast novel, Titus Awakes.
Brave New Worlds, John Joseph Adams’ anthology, which is available now but is listed as January 2011 and which will not make it to my house before the New Year.
Jo Walton’s Among Others, Gary K. Wolfe’s Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature , Catherynne Valente’s Deathless, and the VanderMeers’ Lambshead Cabinet anthology.
“The biggest one for me is Christopher Priest’s first novel in ten years, The Islanders”
Uhhh, didn’t know about that one. I’ve just pre-ordered it. Thanks!!!
Howard Waldrop’s The Moone World, which he keep saying is getting close…
Joe R. Lansdale’s Heyenas and Devil Red.
And the Vinge, if it appears, and the Mieville. And I’ve already read Home Fires.
The Apocalypse Codex doesn’t look like it’s due out until 2012.
And since he’s actually writing again, I guess it’s within the realm of possibility that we might actually get to read Steven R. Boyett’s The Geography of Dreams sometime in our lifetimes…
Dancing with Dragons by G.R.R.Martin – the same novel I have been wanting every year for the last 20odd years I think it is now…
Whatevre is next from China Meilvile, Charles Stross, Richard Morgan, Scalzi and Cory Doctorow are the ones that pop to mind but probably a few more.
The one I’m itching the most for is The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie. Can’t get enough of those misfits in the North. Also have been waiting patiently for G R R Martin’s and Rothfuss’ next books. And I’ll definitely pick up Al Reynolds latest, even though I was somewhat ambivalent about Terminal World.
A few of ‘em…
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Alchemist
Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief
Michael Swanwick, Dancing With Bears
Steven Gould, 7th Sigma
Daryl Gregory, Raising Stony Mayhall
Charles Stross, Rule 34
Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex
Good Luck, Yukikaze by Chohei Kambayashi which is a sequel to Yukikaze a sentient fighter plane fighting Alien machine like AIs on a planet connected to Earth by a portal.All I need is for Nick Mamatas of Haikasoru to get it translated and published so I can continue to follow the exploirs of Yukikaze
Great suggestions, folks!
I should have realized beofre I posted this that my wanna-read list for next year would get even longer!
There looks to be a lot of potential great books releasing in 2011. I’m looking forward to:
Engineering Infinity ~edited by Jonathan Strahan
Cowboy Angels ~Paul McAuley
Home Fires ~Gene Wolfe
Dark Jenny ~Alex Bledsoe
Life on Mars ~edited by Jonathan Strahan
Eclipse Four ~edited by Jonathan Strahan
Fuzzy Nation ~John Scalzi
City of Ruins ~Kristine Kathryn Rusch
@carlv: Cowboy Angels is out, at least in the US
Turbulence by Samit Basu. The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis. Ex-Patriots by Peter Clines. Ghosts of War by George Mann. And finally: Austin Grossman (Soon I Will be Invincible) says his next book will be out soon. Fingers crossed.
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing: A Novel (2011) by Jasper Fforde
Deadline (2011) by Mira Grant
Embassytown (2011) by China Mieville
Napier’s Bones (2011) by Derryl Murphy
The Moon Maze Game (2011) by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
All the Lives He Led (2011) by Frederik Pohl
WWW: Wonder (2011) by Robert J. Sawyer
Fuzzy Nation (2011) by John Scalzi
Flashback (2011) by Dan Simmons
Rule 34 (2011) by Charles Stross
Crysis: Legion (2011) by Peter Watts
Deep State (2011) by Walter Jon Williams
Vortex (2011) by Robert Charles Wilson
@Lawrence Person:
Boyett never stopped writing. You should check out his website. And he’s made it pretty clear he’s not going to finish the Architect books.
There is only 4 that I am really looking forward to coming out over the next year or so
Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi – I’ve just recently found H Beam Pipers books and really enjoyed them, it is a real shame that they are out of print.
The Dark At The End by F Paul Wilson – the last of the Repairman Jack books taking him from The Tomb to Nightworld.
README by Neal Stephenson – it is being sold as a thriller but I will be there on the day it comes out.
The last Wheel Of Time book – Because it is finally OVER!!! I’ve wasted something like 15 years on this!!!
Hey tam, thanks for the heads up. It hasn’t been on bookstore shelves yet in either Borders or Barnes and Noble here, so if it doesn’t crop up in a week or so I’ll probably just have to order it.