Jeff Vandermeer has posted his 2007: The Best of the Year list over on LocusOnline. I’m thrilled to see a few Pyr mentions.
From the Best Novels list:
“On the science fiction side, Ian McDonald reaffirmed his excellence with Brasyl,
which contains three separate narrative strands describing the Brazil of past, present, and future. The novel is a tour de force of storytelling momentum, with a level of invention that represents a master at the top of his form. McDonald is an amazing stylist, yes, but here it’s all about motion. He does a wonderful job of including his trademark detailed and inventive description while making sure nothing in this complex, often beautiful novel is static.”
and
“Kay Kenyon’s Bright of the Sky,
after a slow first seventy pages, knocked my socks off with its brilliant evocation of a quest through a parallel universe that has a strange river running through it. Unique in conception, like Larry Niven’s Ringworld, this is the beginning to what should be an amazing SF-Fantasy series.”
From the Best Anthologies list:
” Another first volume of a new original series, the Lou Anders-edited Fast Forward 1
featured thought-provoking speculative takes on making sense of our (post)modern world by, among others, Ken MacLeod, Gene Wolfe, and Nancy Kress. Consistently interesting, this SF anthology fills a gap, as most of the current spate of anthologies seems skewed toward the fantasy side of things.”
And from Notable Reprints:
“…The Blade Itself
by Joe Abercrombie, a rough-and-tumble, bold new voice in the heroic fantasy ranks.”
All good to read!
“Kay Kenyon’s Bright of the Sky,