NPR 50 best SF/F books of the last decade.

[williamjm]

I've been eyeing several of these for a while already. And they're spot on with Jemisin. The first book of that series is stunning, but so devastating I'm not sure I'll ever be able to open book 2.

I think it's a great trilogy, but it doesn't really get any less grim as the series goes on.

 

[tachyon]

@tachyon .... I'm a little embarrassed that I did not check to see that thread before. Hope you are not offended that i reposted it.

Not at all, I'm happy to see more discussion on the topic and not proprietary about the list.

 

[Chuckobochuck]

NPR just (this summer) made a list of the 50 "best" SF/F books of the last 10 years. Here's the link NPR Cookie Consent and Choices I found that I'd only read 3 of them Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Martian by Andy Wier, and All Systems Red by Martha Wells. A couple of others I thought sounded interesting, But almost all of them would be a hard no at the book store. --- Of course there were a lot of Fantasy Titles, and they don't usually pull my string.

They were developed from a list of books voted on by the public and then the judges picked from the semi-finalists. It looks like the more complicated and non-linear the book was, the more likely it was to make the list.

Thanks for this. Found about 10 books that I want to add to my collection on this list.

 

[Chuckobochuck]

Anyone read Pianesi? It sounds really interesting but I’d like to hear what some ppl thought of it.

 

[williamjm]

Anyone read Pianesi? It sounds really interesting but I’d like to hear what some ppl thought of it.

I liked it a lot. The narrator is an unusual character who I thought was likeable and interesting. The plot and setting aren't quite like anything else I've read but despite the strangeness of it all I didn't think it was difficult to follow and it has a much faster pace and is a lot shorter than Clarke's previous novel (I did also really like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell but it probably took several times longer to read).

 

[Chuckobochuck]

I liked it a lot. The narrator is an unusual character who I thought was likeable and interesting. The plot and setting aren't quite like anything else I've read but despite the strangeness of it all I didn't think it was difficult to follow and it has a much faster pace and is a lot shorter than Clarke's previous novel (I did also really like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell but it probably took several times longer to read).

Awesome. Thanks. Yeah I looked at some of her other books as well. I put Strange and Norrell on my read list also.