Every year, Locus Magazine’s panel of editors reviews the entire field of science fiction and fantasy and produces its Recommended Reading List; the 2017 list is now out, and I’m proud to say that it features my novel Walkaway, in excellent company with dozens of other works I enjoyed in the past year.
- The Rift, Nina Allan (Titan US; Titan UK)
- The Massacre of Mankind, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Crown)
- The Berlin Project, Gregory Benford (Saga)
- Persepolis Rising, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- Gnomon, Nick Harkaway (Heinemann; Knopf 2018)
- The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
- Mother Go, James Patrick Kelly (Audible)
- The Moon and the Other, John Kessel (Saga)
- Tomorrow’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tor)
- Shattered Minds, Laura Lam (Tor; Macmillan)
- Provenance, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- The Corporation Wars: Emergence, Ken MacLeod (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Austral, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
- Luna: Wolf Moon, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
- The Last Good Man, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island)
- Null States, Malka Older (Tor.com Publishing)
- Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- The Wrong Stars, Tim Pratt (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
- From the Wreck, Jane Rawson (Transit Lounge)
- The Real-Town Murders, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)
- Sourdough, Robin Sloan (MCD; Atlantic UK)
- Empire Games, Charles Stross (Tor; Tor UK)
- Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canada; Fourth Estate)
- Bannerless, Carrie Vaughn (John Joseph Adams)
2017 Locus Recommended Reading List
[Locus Magazine]