Best New and Emerging Science Fiction Writers

[Dave Vicks]

Has any read the collection of SF Story's FOUNTAIN OF AGES by Nancy Kress?
2012.

She's usually a very good writer.

 

[williamjm]

I very much enjoyed The MurderBot Series by Martha Wells. I found it very original and engaging. Murderbot is the character I think is the most true while still being unique that I've read in a long, long, time. My only problem with them was paying a high price for a short novel (It is at present a 4 book series and might be finished.) on a Kindle.

The fifth book Network Effect (which is a novel not a novella unlike the others) came out last summer. Another novella Fugitive Telemetry is coming out in April.

 

[Bick]

The fifth book Network Effect (which is a novel not a novella unlike the others) came out last summer. Another novella Fugitive Telemetry is coming out in April.

The peculiar publishing decision to bring out all the sequels only as hardbacks at great expense, with only the first book available in paperback is very silly. I’ve read the first, but not anything else in HB. It’s the daftest publishing decision I’ve seen in some time...

 

[williamjm]

The peculiar publishing decision to bring out all the sequels only as hardbacks at great expense, with only the first book available in paperback is very silly. I’ve read the first, but not anything else in HB. It’s the daftest publishing decision I’ve seen in some time...

Although I mostly read physical books I've been reading these as e-books (apart from Network Effect). I am a bit surprised they're not doing some sort of omnibus since it feels like they have enough stories now.

 

[Bick]

Although I mostly read physical books I've been reading these as e-books (apart from Network Effect). I am a bit surprised they're not doing some sort of omnibus since it feels like they have enough stories now.

Yes, an omnibus would make sense, they’ve dropped the ball there.

 

[dask]

I’d like to give The Last Policeman Trilogy a try. Saw the first volume in a second hand bookstore once and passed it by. When I went back to get it someone beat me to it.

 

[Paul_C]

The peculiar publishing decision to bring out all the sequels only as hardbacks at great expense, with only the first book available in paperback is very silly. I’ve read the first, but not anything else in HB. It’s the daftest publishing decision I’ve seen in some time...

The whole thing is weird and has been all along - the prices on Kindle are still ok for the first one, a bit pricey for the rest and as a consequence I've still only read the first story. I have no problem paying a fair price, but I'm not paying way over the going rate.

There are so many fabulous books out there that mean it's no great hardship to just ignore the whole series from now on (I can be very stubborn about pointless things when I want to be ) but it's a shame that they've taken this decision.

 

[Parson]

The peculiar publishing decision to bring out all the sequels only as hardbacks at great expense, with only the first book available in paperback is very silly. I’ve read the first, but not anything else in HB. It’s the daftest publishing decision I’ve seen in some time...

Network Effect is available, at least in the States as an ebook. A $13.99 ebook, but an ebook non-the-less.

Network Effect

 

[Bick]

Network Effect is available, at least in the States as an ebook. A $13.99 ebook, but an ebook non-the-less.

Network Effect

Thanks, Parson, but as you may know, I don't read e-books, only actual books.

 

[Dave Vicks]

Yoon Ha Lee.

 

[Bick]

Yoon Ha Lee.

Yes, you mentioned him already - have you his work?
What do you think of him?

 

[Dave Vicks]

@Bick I look forward to reading Ninefox Gambit by Lee.

 

[Vertigo]

To be fair a lot of the recommendations here do not match the thread title "New and Emerging" as many of them are long established authors who happen to still be writing.

There are a number of new authors mentioned here that I'm afraid I really couldn't get on with: Martha Wells, Martine Arkady, Derek Kunsken and Yoon Ha Lee.

Others already mentioned I love:
Adrian Tchaikovsky - though I'm not sure he's really new or emerging, but maybe true of his SF output
Cixin Liu - but again I'm not sure how new he is; new in English translation maybe
Andy Weir - though possibly a one hit wonder, his second book has had a very mixed reception

Others not mentioned that I rate at least moderately highly
Ann Leckie (okay he was mentioned but only by the OP!)
Paolo Bacigalupi - First published novel was I think 2009 so I guess he's new but pretty well established now. After half a dozen books, though, I find his unrelentingly post apocalyptic dystopias are getting just a little too much for me.
Sue Burke - has been writing for quite some time but, I think, has only recently written a couple of full novels - both very good.
Al Robertson - two Station books are very good but nothing else for 5 years or so

 

[Piman25]

I’d like to give The Last Policeman Trilogy a try. Saw the first volume in a second hand bookstore once and passed it by. When I went back to get it someone beat me to it.

Excellent series. I highly recommend.

 

[Piman25]

To be fair a lot of the recommendations here do not match the thread title "New and Emerging" as many of them are long established authors who happen to still be writing.

There are a number of new authors mentioned here that I'm afraid I really couldn't get on with: Martha Wells, Martine Arkady, Derek Kunsken and Yoon Ha Lee.

Others already mentioned I love:
Adrian Tchaikovsky - though I'm not sure he's really new or emerging, but maybe true of his SF output
Cixin Liu - but again I'm not sure how new he is; new in English translation maybe
Andy Weir - though possibly a one hit wonder, his second book has had a very mixed reception

Others not mentioned that I rate at least moderately highly
Ann Leckie (okay he was mentioned but only by the OP!)
Paolo Bacigalupi - First published novel was I think 2009 so I guess he's new but pretty well established now. After half a dozen books, though, I find his unrelentingly post apocalyptic dystopias are getting just a little too much for me.
Sue Burke - has been writing for quite some time but, I think, has only recently written a couple of full novels - both very good.
Al Robertson - two Station books are very good but nothing else for 5 years or so

Well anything newer than 2000 is new to me.

 

[Bick]

Has any read the collection of SF Story's FOUNTAIN OF AGES by Nancy Kress?
She's usually a very good writer.

Not sure how this relates to new and emerging writers? Kress first published in Galaxy magazine 45 years ago.

(and its stories, not story's - just sayin')

 

[Piman25]

Just finished Children of Time. Excellent book. Thanks for the suggestion. I will read more by him.

 

[Piman25]

Not sure how this relates to new and emerging writers? Kress first published in Galaxy magazine 45 years ago.

(and its stories, not story's - just sayin')

I also just finished Sea Change by Nancy Kress. I always enjoy her stuff.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Not sure how this relates to new and emerging writers? Kress first published in Galaxy magazine 45 years ago.

(and its stories, not story's - just sayin')

And Martha Wells's first novel was published about 25 years ago.

 

[niccol]

Sure, not everything makes the award lists that should. But working one's way through the short (or long) lists of the major awards would give a pretty good view of what was out there.

Personally, I am a Leckie and Wells groupie but the lists have so much on them some of which I like and some of which I don't. They make a good starting point if you want to cover the ground.