Best SF/F of the Year thread?

[shanemckiness]

I see that we have a best sci-fi/fantasy thread, but do we have a best science fiction/fantasy book of the year thread? It would be great to see what users' favorite books are for a particular, regardless of their overall favorites. Plus, the list would definitly be a bit shorter.

Shane

 

[direstraits]

The best SFF that *we've* read for the year, or the best sff that was released for that particular year?

ds

 

[shanemckiness]

Definitly the best that each individual user has read for that particular year.

-shane

 

[Ice]

The following thread lists members favourite fantasy reads of this year:

Favourite 2005 Fantasy Reads?

HTH

 

[Ainulindale]

As noted in the other thread (*with changes since):

May favorite 21 SF/F books published in 2005:

1. Vellum by Hal Duncan
2. Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley
3. Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
4. Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright
5. Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin
6. Eternity and Other Stories by Lucius Shepard
7. Learning the World by Ken Macleod
8. Kafka by the Shore -Haruki Murakami (I read the Japanese version several years ago, but this was the first english edition)
9. From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
10. In the Palace of Repose by Holly Phillips
11. A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park
12. Looking for Jake by China Mieville
13. The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker
14. Tumbling After by Paul Witcover
15. Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
16. Starwater Strains by Gene Wolfe
17. Yume Me Hon: Book of Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente
18. Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
19. Mothers and Other Monsters by Maureen Mchugh
20. Sanity and the Lady by Brian Aldiss
21. The Emperor of Gondwanaland: And Other Stories by Paul di Filippo
22. Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
23. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
24 Ilium by Dan Simmons

I want to al include a mannscript of a book I read this year tha will be published in mid 2006, Scott Lynch's debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora

 

[jbcohen]

What is the best read of any novel published in 2005?

 

[Oberon]

Of a book published this year, Runes of the Earth by SR Donaldson and Accelerando by Charles Stoss, the latter, for sure, being a 2005 book, and classic cyberpunk novel.