The book(s) I've been the most impressed with in the last ten years is probably Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman novels. Amazing world-building.
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
This Town Will Never Let Us Go.
It probably isn't, but I love it so much that I don't care.
Anathem, no question for me.
Though Cloud Atlas is giving it a run for its money, in a very untraditional way.
I haven't read Antathm, but Cryptonomicon is definitely on my list so I'll have to check it out.
Anathem and Cloud Atlas are both fantastic indeed.
I need to re-read Anathem. Despite my general disgruntledness with books that have their own glossary, and despite the fact that the ending(s) made my head spin, it was excellent.
I just finished and loved Cloud Atlas but would never think of it as being sci-fi. It is really good and worth reading though.
but would never think of it as being sci-fi.
Most of it doesn't read like SF, but OTOH, half of it takes place in 2 future time periods, one of which is explicitly SFish (enslaved human clones etc) and the other of which is the post-apocalyptic remains of the other.
Yeah, it makes sense, Jessica, I just wouldn't have thought to classify it as sci-fi. Of course it's totally also historical fiction and contemporary too. Man, I loved that book. I just started his Black Swan Green last night. It's very stressful!
New Skulduggery Pleasant book: I has it!!!
Maybe I'll wait until the trip this weekend to read it.
Okay, that was a big fat lie. I'll probably be up WAY too late tonight reading it.