{"id":312,"date":"2009-02-02T13:19:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T17:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books\/?p=312"},"modified":"2014-02-10T03:30:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:30:43","slug":"locus-recommended-reading-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2009\/02\/locus-recommended-reading-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Locus recommended reading 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/2009\/2008RecommendedReading.html\">The Locus Magazine 2008 recommended reading list is up<\/a>, a decided on by their editors, reviewers and friends. I&#8217;ll excerpt the sf novels list:\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"nobullet\">\n<li><cite>Matter<\/cite>, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Flood<\/cite>, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz, Roc &#8217;09) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Weaver<\/cite>, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz, Ace) <\/li>\n<li><cite>City at the End of Time<\/cite>, Greg Bear (Gollancz, Del Rey) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Incandescence<\/cite>, Greg Egan (Gollancz, Night Shade) <\/li>\n<li><cite>January Dancer<\/cite>, Michael Flynn (Tor) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Marsbound<\/cite>, Joe Haldeman (Ace) <\/li>\n<li><cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2011\/12\/spirit-gwyneth-jones\/\">Spirit<\/a><\/cite>, Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Escapement<\/cite>, Jay Lake (Tor) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Song of Time<\/cite>, Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing) <\/li>\n<li><cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2010\/06\/the-night-sessions-ken-macleod\/\">The Night Sessions<\/a><\/cite>, Ken MacLeod (Orbit) <\/li>\n<li><cite>The Quiet War<\/cite>, Paul McAuley (Gollancz) <\/li>\n<li><cite>The Company<\/cite>, K. J. Parker (Orbit) <\/li>\n<li><cite>House of Suns<\/cite>, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz, Ace &#8217;09) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Pirate Sun<\/cite>, Karl Schroeder (Tor) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Anathem<\/cite>, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Saturn&#8217;s Children<\/cite>, Charles Stross (Orbit, Ace) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Rolling Thunder<\/cite>, John Varley (Ace) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Half a Crown<\/cite>, Jo Walton (Tor) <\/li>\n<li><cite>Implied Spaces<\/cite>, Walter Jon Williams (Night Shade Books)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nOf the list, I&#8217;ve already read <cite>Matter<\/cite>, <cite>Anathem<\/cite> and <cite>Saturn&#8217;s Children<\/cite> and will definately read <cite>The Night Sessions<\/cite>, <cite>Half a Crown<\/cite>,  <cite>House of Suns<\/cite>, <cite>Implied Spaces<\/cite> and <cite>The Quiet War<\/cite>. <cite>The Company<\/cite>, <cite>Escapement<\/cite> and <cite>Song of Time<\/cite> are also possibilities; the rest not so much and I already know I won&#8217;t read the Baxter novels.  In all, a good list and as far as I can judge a good overview of the more important novels of last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are remarkable few women on this list, just Gwyneth Jones, Jo Walton and K. J. Parker. The fantasy list has a better gender divide: six out of eighteen novels are by female authors. Is science fiction really such a male preserve?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Locus Magazine 2008 recommended reading list is up, a decided on by their editors, reviewers and friends. I&#8217;ll excerpt the sf novels list: Matter, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK) Flood, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz, Roc &#8217;09) Weaver, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz, Ace) City at the End of Time, Greg Bear (Gollancz, Del Rey) Incandescence, Greg Egan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,845],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-locus-recommended-reading","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}