2008, Not Criminalized
Over on SFSite, Kay Kenyon’s A World Too Near
And look, the trade paperback
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Best of 2008
SF Site’s Reader’s Choice
It’s time again for SFSite’s Annual SF Site Readers’ Choice: Best Read of 2008, where you can vote for your favorite books of the past year. Deadline for voting is February 6, 2009, midnight Eastern Standard Time. Rules and guidelines at the link. May the best books win!
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MultiReal makes io9’s Best of 2008
David Louis Edelman’s MultiReal
An amazing hard scifi tale, this is the second in an action-packed series from Edelman. …With so much mass-media science fiction featuring anti-science heroes who battle to stop science from ‘going too far,’ it’s great to read a really smart novel about a hero who’s fighting to save scientific progress from being suppressed. David Louis Edelman’s MultiReal, the second volume in the trilogy that begins with Infoquake,
is a welcome cure to the Fringe/Eleventh Hour science-bashing, even though it presents both the pro- and con- arguments about radical progress. But MultiReal is also way more entertaining than the science bashers.
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Best of 2008: FF2 is Bookgasm’s Best Book of the Year
Ryun Patterson, at Bookgasm, publishes his 5 Best Sci-Fi Books of 2008, and Fast Forward 2
“Up until last year, I would never have believed that an anthology of new science fiction could be the best sci-fi book put out in a given year. First of all, is there even a demand for such a beast? It seems that a budding anthologist could make a far more successful book by picking a theme, say ‘green aliens with tentacles who are really children in search of their parents but are thought of as evil because of a cultural misunderstanding,’ and find awesome tales from the genre’s creaky grandmasters that would guarantee an endcap placement at Borders…
But Anders, who has paid his dues many times over in the science-fiction trenches, doesn’t seem to do the predictable thing, and his risk-taking has paid off. Fast Forward 2 is even more electric than last year’s first: Anders has assembled some of the best and brightest current stars of the genre, and they turned in stories that, as a whole, really do represent the cutting edge of fiction. From a fashion designer who grows living gowns to a raid on the doomsday seed bank to a young man getting Cyrano-with-a-twist dating advice in the India of the future, Fast Forward 2 is the book to read this year. It’s the surest of sure things, and a bargain, to boot.”
Deeply honored.
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Mind Meld: Best of 2008
SF Signal asks, “Q: What were the best genre-related books, movies and/or shows you consumed in 2008?” Their panel of experts include Mary Robinette Kowal, Ted Kosmatka, John Picacio, Paul McAuley, Marc Gascoigne, and Bob Eggelton.
Very happy to see several Pyr books get a mention: Fast Forward 2, Brasyl, River of Gods (even though it wasn’t a 2008 book) and even the forthcoming Age of Misrule trilogy.
And of course, in the film category, I’m always happy to see The Dark Knight get mentioned.
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