The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 019): Our ‘Best of 2010’ Lists
In this episode of the SF Signal Podcast, we talk about: Our favorite books read in 2010.
This is not necessarily books that were published, mind you, but books we consumed in 2010.
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Bored at work…so I decided to transcribe the lists…
Jessica Strider:
Under Heaven – Guy Gavrieal Kay
Desert Spear – Peter Brett
Hundred Thousand Kingdoms- NK Jemisin
Dervish House – Ian Mcdonald
Veracity – Laura Bynum
State of Decay – James Knapp
Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
Eon – Allison Goodman
Scorched Trials – James Dashner
Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness
John Ottinger:
Spiral Labyrinth – Matthew Hughes
Recovering Apollo 8 – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Conqueror’s Shadow – Ari Marmell
Year of the Horse -Justin Allen
Folding Knife – KJ Parker
Who Fears Death – Nnedi Okorafor
Shades of Milk and Honey – Mary Robinette Kowal
Way of Kings – Sanderson
Black Prism – Brent Weeks
Spirit Thief – Rachel Aaron
Doppelgangster – Laura Resnick
Fred (way too many books) Kiesche:
What Distant Deeps – David Drake
Live Free or Die – John Ringo
Schlock Mercenary: Resident Mad Scientist – Howard Taylor
Lifecycle of Software Object – Ted Chiang
Mirror Kingdoms – Peter Beagle
Girl Genius #9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm – Phil and Katja Foglio
Shadowline (et al) – Glen Cook
Niven, Poul Anderson (et al)
Girl books – Steig Larson
Zero History (et al) – William Gibson
Karen Burnham:
Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – NK Jemisin
Loving Dead – Amelia Beamer
Soulless/Blameless/Changeless – Gail Carringer
Mountains of Madness -HP Lovercraft
Packing for Mars – Mary Roach
At Home – Bill Bryson
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
Inviting Disaster – James r Chiles
Lots of stuff – Olaf Stapleton
Jeff “TMI” Patterson:
Ares Express – Ian Macdonld
Heretics – S Andrew Swan
Up Jim River – Michael Flynn
Pinion/Specific Gravity of Grief – Jay Lake
Ventus/Permanence- Karl Shroeder
Evolutionary Void – Peter Hamilton
Surface Detail – Ian Banks
Demon /Freedom(tm) – Dan Suarez
Terminal World – Alistair Reynolds
Black Hills – Dan Simmons
The City’s End: Two Centuries of stuff – New York’s Destruction
The Unwritten – Mike Carey
Farscape/Skorpius comics
(Yes, Patrick, there have been science fiction stories where the aliens were weak)
John DeNardo:
Heretics – Andrew Swann
Voices of Vision – Jamie Lynn Blaschke
Watch – Robert J Sawyer
Shipbreaker – Paolo Bacigalupie
Ghost of Manhattan -George Mann
Dog Blood – David Moody
Driver for the Dead
The Breach – Patrick Lee
Trujillo – Lucius shepherd
Diving into the Wreck – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Benchwarmer – Mike Resnick/Leslie Robyn
Thunder from Fenris – Nick Kyme
Waiting Death – Steve Lyons
Other Earths – Nick Gevers/Jay Lake
Living Dead II – John Joseph Adams
Patrick Hester:
Changes – Jim Butcher
Kick-Ass
Welcome to the Jungle
One of the Batman ones? Batgirl Rising?
Dont thank me, pity me…
But it is time for lunch!
Hey thanks, TW! Favorite part: Jeff “TMI” Patterson. 🙂
Hmm, my Podcaster iphone app doesn’t see it yet.
@Tam: We have 2 podcast feeds:
https://www.sfsignal.com/podcast.xml — has the latest epsiode.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sf-signal/id386311428 — doesn’t have the epsiode yet, but should soon.
@SASwannFan: that first feed is missing the mp3
Sorry folks. Podcast feed was broken for a bit — it’s fixed now. Not sure about the iTunes side of things…
The iTunes side of things will be fixed when the ‘geniuses’ move away from the bar and start working. In other words, we’ve pinged Apple about the updated feed, it’s up to them to make it ‘just work’.
Why yes, I am using a lot of ‘ ‘…
Check out Hulkpool (Hulk + Deadpool) in the 1st 2 chapters of ‘Hulked Out Heroes’. Hilarious.
The best book I read last year was, by a HUGE margin, Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book”. What a stunning book. Neil Gaiman is such an eloquent writer that aspiring writers should not be allowed to read him. If they do they may very well pack it in, because reaching this level of mastery may not be possible for most.
I also very much enjoyed the Autumn Rain trilogy, by David Williams. While thin on characterization, the relentless plot and the constant action kept me glued to my Kindle deep into the night on many occasions. This was also the first time that a novel written in present tense didn’t bother me. Normally I get so turned off by present tense that I cannot finish the book. Here it blended into the background and I didn’t even notice it after a while.
I also re-read the entire Vorgosigan saga in preparation to Cryoburn (which I haven’t gotten to yet) and, needless to say, they were as good as they were the first time I read them.
Joerg
Just wanted to mention the 2010 English translation of The Stories of Ibis (Hiroshi Yamamoto)2006
Highly recommended for anyone interested in Ai/android fiction.