Locus magazine has just released its 2012 Recommended Reading List of science fiction/fantasy/horror, which is always a great reading guide (and a fabulous resource for those of us nominating for the Hugo awards. I'm delighted to see my novel Pirate Cinema and Rapture of the Nerds (written with Charlie Stross) on the best novel list!
Novels – Science Fiction
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The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
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Bowl of Heaven, Gregory Benford & Larry Niven (Tor)
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Any Day Now, Terry Bisson (Overlook; Duckworth ’13)
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Blueprints of the Afterlife, Ryan Boudinot (Black Cat)
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Arctic Rising, Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)
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Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
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Intruder, C.J. Cherryh (DAW)
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Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
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The Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross (Tor)
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The Eternal Flame, Greg Egan (Night Shade; Gollancz)
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Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway (Heinemann; Knopf)
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Empty Space, M. John Harrison (Gollancz; Night Shade ’13)
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Rapture, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade)
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Intrusion, Ken MacLeod (Orbit UK)
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In the Mouth of the Whale, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
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Fate of Worlds, Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner (Tor)
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The Fractal Prince, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor)
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Blue Remembered Earth, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace)
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Jack Glass, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
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2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
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Turing & Burroughs, Rudy Rucker (Transreal)
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Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
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Ashes of Candesce, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
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Lost Everything, Brian Francis Slattery (Tor)
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Slow Apocalypse, John Varley (Ace)
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The Fourth Wall, Walter Jon Williams (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
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The Last Policeman, Ben Winters (Quirk)
