100 SF/F Books You Should Consider Reading in the New Year
<html> <p>Last year, I was so inspired by the various Best Of, Must Read, Smashing Science Fiction and Fantasy lists I encountered around the net that I decided to make my own book list, books chosen entirely on the basis of merit and significance to the field . People enjoyed the first list so much that I perpetrated sequels. I posted a number of lists, each twenty books long, each selected entirely on the basis of merit and significance to the field (ahem). Here, at last, the quintessence of Nicoll lists, comprising the books I would most heartily recommend. Each entry is annotated with a short description that I hope will explain why I picked it.</p> <p><strong>I am not implying that these are the</strong> <strong><em>only</em></strong> <strong>one hundred you should consider reading </strong><strong>.</strong></p> <p>You may not know all of these. Congratulations! <a href=„https://xkcd.com/1053/“>You are one of today’s lucky ten thousand.</a> I will never again be able to read any of these for the first time… but you can!</p>
<p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Goblin-Emperor2-e1544119782513.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Goblin Emperor</em> by Katherine Addison (2014)</h4> <p>The story of a despised, abused person handed vast power, it demonstrates that one can choose not to be a monster.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Goblin Emperor from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-415293“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Stolen-Lake-e1543863086535.jpg?resize=300%2C482&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„482“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Stolen Lake</em> by Joan Aiken (1981)</h4> <p>An amusing YA alternate-Arthurian adventure, featuring plucky leads.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Stolen Lake from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-415293“ src=„https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Fullmetal-Alchemist.jpg?resize=300%2C482&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„482“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Fullmetal Alchemist</em> by Hiromu Arakawa (2001-2010)</h4> <p>An intricately plotted manga about the temptations of power.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Fullmetal Alchemist from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-415293“ src=„https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Yokohama-Kaidashi-Kik%C5%8D.jpg?resize=300%2C482&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„482“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō</em> by Hitoshi Ashinano (1994-2006)</h4> <p>A tranquil after-the-end slice-of-life manga, a story in which the apocalypse is as relaxing as a sunset.</p> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-415293“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Handmaids-Tale.jpg?resize=300%2C482&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„482“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em> by Margaret Atwood (1985)</h4> <p>Because it’s not wrong to be angry about injustice and reading about fictional injustice can draw one’s attention to its real world inspirations.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Handmaid’s Tale from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-419909“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Stinz01.jpg?resize=300%2C464&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„464“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Stinz: Charger: The War Stories</em> by Donna Barr (1987)</h4> <p>Perhaps the finest military fantasy about a Germanic centaur in a quasi-WWI setting ever.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Stinz: Charger: The War Stories from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Sword-and-the-Satchel-e1544133181755.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Sword and the Satchel</em> by Elizabeth Boyer (1980)</h4> <p>A quest fantasy about a hapless hero’s effort to kill that which is unkillable. Who doesn’t like seemingly hopeless quests?</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Sword and the Satchel from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Galactic-Sybil-Sue-Blue-1-e1544134714935.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue</em> by Rosel George Brown (1968)</h4> <p>When this was published in the 1960s, women protagonists who were two-fisted space detectives were extremely rare; this is one of the few examples.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Mountains-of-Mourning-e1544135076542.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Mountains of Mourning</em> by Lois McMaster Bujold (1989)</h4> <p>A murder mystery set in a backwater county on a backwater world, this is the story that convinced me to be a Lois McMaster Bujold completist.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Mountains of Mourning from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/War-For-The-Oaks.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>War for the Oaks</em> by Emma Bull (1987)</h4> <p>A musician finds herself entangled in the affairs of the Fair Folk in the modern world. Well, olden times now, but thirty years ago the 1980s were the modern world. At the time, urban fantasy and paranormal romance had not crystalized; I believe this is one of the seeds around which the genre accreted.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy War for the Oaks from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Wild-Seed-e1544136208238.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Wild Seed</em> by Octavia E. Butler (1980)</h4> <p>The most polished of Butler’s Patternist books, the book that convinced me to buy everything Butler wrote.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Wild Seed from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Naamahs-Curse.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Naamah’s Curse</em> by Jacqueline Carey (2010)</h4> <p>This book is built around a laundry-list of fantasy tropes I hate (don’t get me started on fantasy Celts) and yet, and yet… I could not put it down. I am convinced that if only I read enough of Carey books, I will somehow escape their spell.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Naamah’s Curse from:</h3> </div>
<hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Fortunate-Fall.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Fortunate Fall</em> by Raphael Carter (1996)</h4> <p>A remarkable example of mid-1990s post-cyberpunk.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Fortunate Fall from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-419904“ src=„https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/LongWay-US.jpg?resize=300%2C452&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„452“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet</em> by Becky Chambers (2015)</h4> <p>Because sometimes one needs to read about a diverse crew of people forming a found family.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Red-Moon-and-Black-Mountain.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Red Moon and Black Mountain</em> by Joy Chant (1970)</h4> <p>A Disco-era quest fantasy invoking elements of Lord of the Rings and Narnia, this high fantasy novel predates the later tsunami of commercial fantasy. I missed it at the time. Having finally read it, I am pretty sure it influenced later authors like Eddings and Feist…</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Red Moon and Black Mountain from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Vampire-Tapestry.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Vampire Tapestry</em> by Suzy McKee Charnas (1980)</h4> <p>To modern readers, this fix-up might seem to fit nicely into urban fantasy, but not only is its take on vampires more of an SFnal one, Charnas’ novel predates modern urban fantasy by decades.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Vampire Tapestry from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gate-of-Ivrel.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Gate of Ivrel</em> by C.J. Cherryh (1976)</h4> <p>This was not the first Cherryh I ever read, but it was the first Cherryh I read that I actually enjoyed. It stands as an engaging example of early DAW publications (although hardly the only one on this list).</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Gate of Ivrel from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sorceror-to-the-Crown.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Sorcerer to the Crown</em> by Zen Cho (2015)</h4> <p>People from all around the globe have come to Britain for centuries and millennia; there’s no reason to think its population of sorcerers would not reflect this. But what would be the reaction to a black Sorcerer Royal?</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Sorcerer to the Crown from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Diadem-from-the-Stars.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Diadem from the Stars</em> by Jo Clayton (1977)</h4> <p>Another classic from DAW, this interstellar adventure underlines an important moral principle: never don a powerful alien artifact without being sure you can remove it.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Diadem from the Stars from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Dark-is-Rising.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Dark is Rising</em> by Susan Cooper (1973)</h4> <p>Eleven-year-old Will Stanton might have preferred a bicycle for his birthday. What he got instead was a starring role in the war between Light and Dark.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Dark is Rising from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Genpei.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Genpei</em> by Kara Dalkey (2000)</h4> <p>A modern-day retelling of Japanese history, exposing the occult secrets behind the Minamoto clan’s rise to power. Included because I don’t want to be criticized again for spoilers re: the end of the Heian Period.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Genpei from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Servant-of-the-Underworld.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Servant of the Underworld</em> by Aliette de Bodard (2010)</h4> <p>Aliette de Bodard’s Acatl has an advantage fellow crime-solving clerics like Father Brown and Brother Cadfael lack; Acatl serves the god of death—and unlike other pantheons, the Aztec gods are more than happy to share what they know with mortals. Not that this is necessarily a good thing.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Servant of the Underworld from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Secret-Country.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Secret Country</em> by Pamela Dean (1985)</h4> <p>I suspect describing this book as “imagine a better-written Narnia whose author is not an annoying god-botherer” is not the way to go here, and yet…</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Secret Country from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Dhalgren_SamuelRDelany.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Dhalgren</em> by Samuel R. Delany (1975)</h4> <p>It’s important to acknowledge SF’s crowd-pleasers along with its more ambitious works. Dhalgren is just such a crowd-pleaser. The inexplicably transformed city Bellona has enthralled readers for decades; the Bantam edition alone went through nineteen printings, with sales of over a million copies. [One of my advance readers asked at this point: “But how many of the people who bought it finished reading this doorstop? I didn’t.”]</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Dhalgren from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Door-into-Fire.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Door into Fire</em> by Diane Duane (1979)</h4> <p>These days, of course, many people are familiar with polyamorous reationships, but in the 1970s, Duane’s secondary universe adventure was eye-opening.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Door into Fire from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/On-the-Edge-of-Gone.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>On the Edge of Gone</em> by Corinne Duyvis (2016)</h4> <p>Another end-of-the-world story, one told from the perspective of someone who didn’t qualify for one of the few starships fleeing doomed Earth. SF generally takes an unsympathetic view of non-elites; this book is an exception.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy On the Edge of Gone from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Spirit-Gate.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Spirit Gate</em> by Kate Elliott (2006)</h4> <p>Excellent proof that authors can write vast, ambitious fantasies without losing control of their plot. Or missing release dates.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Spirit Gate from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Enchantress-from-the-Stars.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Enchantress From the Stars</em> by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (1970)</h4> <p>A Disco-era anthropological quest gone wrong, Engdahl’s book manages to combine grim adventure with a rather touching faith in human potential.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Enchantress From the Stars from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Golden-Witchbreed.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Golden Witchbreed</em> by Mary Gentle (1983)</h4> <p>Another anthropological adventure, this book has considerably less faith in the essential goodness of humanity or humanoids. It’s still enthralling (although readers are advised not to read the sequel).</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Golden Witchbreed from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Dazzle-of-Day.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Dazzle of Day</em> by Molly Gloss (1997)</h4> <p>This generation-ship tale chooses an unthinkable course of action: what if the people on a starship were fundamentally reasonable people with time-tested methods of non-violently resolving conflict?</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy The Dazzle of Day from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/A-Mask-for-the-General.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>A Mask for the General</em> by Lisa Goldstein (1987)</h4> <p>For some reason, a novel about the struggle by artists to liberate the US from a two-bit dictator seems peculiarly timely.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy A Mask for the General from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Slow-River.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Slow River</em> by Nicola Griffith (1995)</h4> <p>Although the protagonist comes from money, circumstance lands her in a blue-collar job. 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(Also available in <a href=„http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/st-ailbes-hall-part-1-of-2/“ target=„_blank“ rel=„noopener“>Strange Horizons.</a>)</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy St Ailbe’s Hall from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Deryni-Rising.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Deryni Rising</em> by Katherine Kurtz (1970)</h4> <p>This popular Disco-era castle opera lives somewhere between fantasy and alternate history.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Deryni Rising from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Swordspoint.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Swordspoint</em> by Ellen Kushner (1987)</h4> <p>A fantasy of manners, romance, and swordplay.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Swordspoint from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/A-Wrinkle-in-Time.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>A Wrinkle in Time</em> by Madeleine L’Engle (1962)</h4> <p>In general, I am indifferent to religious fantasy, but this tale of two siblings and a friend trying to rescue the siblings’ father after an experiment goes wrong is an exception.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy A Wrinkle in Time from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Magic-or-Madness.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>Magic or Madness</em> by Justine Larbalestier (2005)</h4> <p>A young woman faces the choice that has confronted all the women in her family: power and death, or life and madness.</p> <div class=„ebook-link-wrapper ebook-links-wrapper-shortcode alignfull buy-buttons-wrapper“> <h3>Buy Magic or Madness from:</h3> </div> <hr class=„c2“/> <p><img class=„aligncenter size-full wp-image-416114“ src=„https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Dispossessed.jpg?resize=300%2C449&type=vertical&ssl=1“ alt=„“ width=„300“ height=„449“ data-recalc-dims=„1“/></p> <h4 class=„c1“><em>The Dispossessed</em> by Ursula K. 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<p class=„squib“><a href=„https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/James_D._Nicoll_%282nd_nomination%29“><strong>In the words of Wikipedia editor TexasAndroid</strong></a>, prolific book reviewer and perennial <a href=„http://dd-b.net/NicollEvents/“><strong>Darwin Award nominee</strong></a> James Davis Nicoll is of “questionable notability.” His work has appeared in Publishers Weekly and Romantic Times as well as on his own websites, <a href=„http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/“><strong>James Nicoll Reviews</strong></a> and <a href=„http://youngpeoplereadoldsff.com/“><strong>Young People Read Old SFF </strong></a>(where he is assisted by editor <a href=„http://klofstrom.com/“><strong>Karen Lofstrom</strong></a> and web person Adrienne L. Travis). He is surprisingly flammable.</p> <div id=„entry-contentcitation-popup“ class=„entry-contentcitation-popup“> <div class=„entry-contentcitation-header“> <h4>citation</h4> <em id=„entry-contentcitation-close“ class=„icon-cancel“/></div> </div> </html>
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