Fans vote every year for the best of sci fi and fantasy, in both the Hugo Awards and the Nebula Awards, and the Best Novel spot in each is always one to watch. Our fantasy and sci fi editor Sylvia Bishop introduces the sci fi winners of the last decade: from titles that are now classics of ...
It’s also fun to walk the fine lines between “is this utopia or hell?”, “how much (if any) evil in pursuit of greater good/happier future is acceptable?”, “if I forgive this character, do I have to forgive that one?”, “do I love or loathe Victorian dialogue?”, “if religion is involved, is it really sci-fi?” ... I loved this series ― it got better as it went along, and the final book, Perhaps the Stars, was my favorite thing that I read in 2023. ... Probably something by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Dogs Of War? Children Of Time? Shards Of Earth? All amazing. If your decade starts from 2010, then Hannu Rajaneimi's
1,200 books based on 9107 votes: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, The Martian by Andy Weir, Old Man's War by John Scalzi, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Co...
Project Hail Mary, The Electric State, This Is How You Lose the Time War, and more make up our list of the best sci-fi books of the last 10 years.
A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power.
There are only two books out now, of a planned four-book series, but Gideon the Ninth alone is enough to earn Tamsyn Muir a place on this list: "Too funny to be horror, too gooey to be science fiction, has too many spaceships and autodoors to be fantasy, and has far more bloody dismemberings than your average parlor romance," says critic Jason Sheehan. "It is altogether its own thing." Purchase BookThe Locked Tomb (series) by Tamsyn Muir ... Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? ... Liu Cixin became the first author from Asia to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel, for The Three-Body Problem, the first volume in this series about one of the oldest questions in science fiction: What will happen when we meet aliens?
NPR asked and people answered, letting them know their favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy published within the last ten years and then, with a panel of judges, narrowed it down to the top 50 books and series. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1027159166/best-books-science-fiction-fantasy-past-decade
sffbookreview.wordpress.comsffbookreview.wordpress.com › buchpreise-und-awards › nprBeing well aware that The Lord of the Rings will probably win every time, and not seeing much merit in having a poll just to prove that yet again, NPR changed things up a bit for their follow-up.
It is difficult to write a compelling sci-fi story where the primary driving factor is the characters, but Becky Chambers is exceptionally talented. Of course, exciting events occur in the book, but the narrative is riveting because of how the characters deal with them. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is the quintessential space opera novel of the last decade...
Probably the best decade for SF, with a vast expansion of its subject matter range. Lem’s pessimism about humans’ ability to understand literally anything might make him the most reactionary on this list, yet Solaris remains remarkable for its alienness (a quality the movies have not managed to reproduce.) I find about eight books by Lem’s frenemy Dick about equally good; Dr.