OK, it’s the top 20 best 2009 SF/F from Patrick’s Fantasy Hotlist, but hey, one of my favorite sites! And Lou Anders got MVP, richly deserved. Here’s the list if you don’t feel like clicking through:
TOP 10 SPECULATIVE FICTION TITLES OF 2009
1- Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson (Tor Books/Bantam Press) 2- The Judging Eye by R. Scott Bakker (The Overlook Press/Orbit) 3- The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Doubleday/Weidenfeld & Nicolson) 4- Wings of Wrath by C. S. Friedman (Daw Books/Orbit) 5- Fall of Thanes by Brian Ruckley (Orbit) 6- Twelve by Jasper Kent (Pyr/Bantam Press) 7- Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie (Orbit/Gollancz) 8- Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald (Pyr/Gollancz) 9- A Magic of Nightfall by S. L. Farrell (Daw Books) 10- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Nightshade Books) —————————————————————– 11- Thousandth Night & Minla’s Flowers by Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean Press) 12- The City & the City by China Miéville (Del Rey/Pan MacMillan) 13- City Without End by Kay Kenyon (Pyr) 14- The Burning Skies by David J. Williams (Bantam Spectra) 15- The Eternal Prison by Jeff Somers (Orbit) 16- The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books/Orbit) 17- Imager by L. E. Modesitt, jr. (Tor Books) 18- Suicide Kings edited by George R. R. Martin (Tor Books) 19- Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s Griffin/Gollancz) 20- Muse of Fire by Dan Simmons (Subterranean Press)