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,
it is easily one of the best books of the last 10 years.”
and 
tie for # 5.
and Ian McDonald (
