2001 Editors' Choice: Science
FictionHere are our picks for the best science
fiction books of the year. Connie Willis tops the
list with
Passage, her
absorbing story of two researchers trying to find out
what lies on the other side of death. Find more great
reading in our
Best of
2001 Store or in
Science
Fiction & Fantasy.
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Passage
Connie Willis
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Bantam
May 1, 2001
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Most of us would rather not spend a lot of time contemplating death, but the characters in Connie Willis's novel ...
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The Graveyard Game
Kage Baker
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
January 16, 2001
Hardcover
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"Sin exists," says Joseph, an immortal cyborg agent employed by Dr. Zeus, Inc., and in this fourth novel of Kage Baker's Company series, it certainly does. ...
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Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds
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Ace Hardcover
June 12, 2001
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Alastair Reynolds's first novel is "hard" SF on an epic scale, crammed with technological marvels and immensities. Its events take place over a relatively short period, but have roots a billion years old--when the Dawn War ravaged our galaxy....
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The Secret of Life
Paul J. McAuley
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Tor Books
January 1, 2001
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Having completed the Books of Confluence, his much-praised trilogy set in the distant future, Clarke and Dick awards winner McAuley (Shrine of Stars) here tries his hand at a near-future, hard-science thriller. The year is 2026, and the world is still reco...
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Chronoliths
Robert Charles Wilson
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Tor Books
January 1, 2001
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Nekropolis
Maureen F. Mchugh
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Eos
August 21, 2001
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Hariba, a poor young Near Eastern woman, sells herself into a slavery guaranteed by "jessing," a biochemical process that makes her permanently loyal to her owner. She would be content, if not happy, in her new house-servant's life--if her mistress didn't ...
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Kingdom of Cages
Sarah Zettel
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Aspect
August 28, 2001
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Humanity has spread among the stars, colonizing new worlds. Now the species is in danger of extinction from the interrelated disasters of virulent new diseases and collapsing ecosystems. Of all the colony worlds, only Pandora is unaffected, and the Pandora...
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Cosmonaut Keep (The Engines of Light, Book 1)
Ken MacLeod
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Tor Books
May 18, 2001
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Like a British--specifically, Scottish--counterpart of Bruce Sterling, Ken MacLeod is an SF author who has thought hard about politics and delights in making unlikely alternatives plausible, grippingly readable, and often downright funny....
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Metaplanetary: A Novel of Interplanetary Civil War
Tony Daniel
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Eos
April 10, 2001
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Hugo Award nominee Daniel (Earthling and Warpath) projects a complex, mind-stretching future in his third SF novel, a cross between Bruce Sterling and Doc Smith that teems with vivid characters and surprising action. A thousand years from now, humans use o...
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Eyes of the Calculor (Greatwinter Trilogy)
Sean Mcmullen
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Tor Books
September 26, 2001
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From Publishers Weekly
Deadly monks, harassed bird people, daring pilots and a vicious amnesiac are but some of the disparate personalities enlivening the intricate future world upended in Australian author McMullen's latest SF epic. Hailing from different lands, they all wind u...
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