[Hobbit]

The new SF Review's up and running: link HERE. (http://www.sffworld.com/mul/281p0.html)

Thought you might want to comment about it, as we have done for Fantasy HERE. (http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25251)

Over to you: what have we missed that we should've been reading this year?

Mark

[suciul]

Though no new PFH and Reynolds this year, the year had lots of strong sf - IM Banks back to form in Transition though that is a novel that needs at least one reread to fully make sense, Thomas Harlan finally continued the Sixth Sun series with Land of the Dead, G. Gibson, JN Fenn, M DePierres and G. Mann had excellent second volumes in their series, P. McAuley ended the Quiet War duology triumphantly in Gardens of the Sun, K. Brooke had the excellent The Accord, two adv/mil-sf series continued with #3 both that i enjoyed greatly (Jon & Lobo 3 by M Van Name, Death's Head 3 by D Gunn), SA Swann started a new Moreau/Race series in Prophets, Adam Roberts had the excellent Yellow Blue Tibia, R. Buettner finished Orphans ok, my #1 favorite author David Weber had 3 novels all excellent though the big ones are coming in 2010, New Space Opera 2 was as good as NSO 1, Other Earths and Solaris SF 3 were very good too, then Hitler's War, Age of Ra, Red Claw, Julian and Time Travelers Never Die were all dependable efforts from established authors, Conspirator was a decent addition to the Foreigner series and only the usually very dependable Neal Asher had Orbus which was kind of meh for me


There were some great (sf) debuts In The Court of the Sun/D'Amato, Escape from Byzantium/Mellon, The Manhattan Project/Packard, Ice Song/Kasai Daemon/Suarez, Unincorporated Man/Kollin and Kollin, one I expected more in Seeds of Earth/Cobley

In mainstream sfnal works Year of the Flood/Atwood was excellent and the new Ethan Gage adventure Dakota Cipher/Dietrich was pretty good too.

So lots of stuff I enjoyed; of my top 20 sff novels 1,6,11-14,17-19 are all sf but all the above were very good to excellent with the noted exceptions