Best Books of 2005Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & FantasyWhether creepy, cosmic, comical, or quest-filled, there were a slew of
fine
Science Fiction & Fantasy
titles published in 2005, with the mind-boggling
The Algebraist
by Iain M. Banks topping the list as our favorite SFF book of 2005. See more
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The Algebraist
Iain M. Banks
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Night Shade Books
October 5, 2005
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Starred Review. Banks (Look to Windward) pulls out all the stops in this gloriously over-the-top, state-of-the-art space opera, a Hugo nominee in its British edition. In a galaxy teeming with intelligent life-forms and dominated by the intensely hierarchical society known as the Mercatoria, the Ulubis system has been cut ...
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Accelerando (Singularity)
Charles Stross
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Ace Hardcover
July 5, 2005
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Stross (Singularity Sky) explores humanity's inability to cope with molecular nanotechnology run amok in this teeming near-future SF stand-alone. In part one, "Slow Takeoff," "free enterprise broker" Manfred Macx and his soon-to-be-estranged wife/dominatrix, Pamela, lay the foundation for the next decade's transhumans. In "Point of Inflection," Amber, their punky ...
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Looking for Jake: Stories
China Mieville
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Del Rey
August 30, 2005
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London is a dangerous and demon-haunted place, at least for the characters in the dark, finely crafted tales presented in Mi...
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Olympos
Dan Simmons
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Eos
June 28, 2005
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Welcome back to the Trojan War gone round the bend. Hector and Achilles have joined forces against the Olympic Gods. Back on a future Earth, assorted creatures from Shakespeare's ...
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Magic Street
Orson Scott Card
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June 28, 2005
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Starred Review. The residents of Baldwin Hills, a middle-class African-American L.A. neighborhood, get caught up in a battle between the king and the queen of the fairies in this wonderful urban fantasy from Card (Seventh Son). Mack Street, who was abandoned as an infant, grows up to be ...
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Anansi Boys: A Novel
Neil Gaiman
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William Morrow
September 20, 2005
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Starred Review. If readers found the Sandman series creator's last novel, American Gods, hard to classify, they will be equally nonplussed—and equally entertained—by this brilliant mingling of the mundane and the fantastic. "Fat Charlie" Nancy leads a life of comfortable workaholism in London, with a stressful agenting job ...
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Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11)
Robert Jordan
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Tor Books
October 11, 2005
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About the Author Robert Jordan lives in Charleston, South Carolina. He is a graduate of the Citadel. Amazon.com Exclusive Content Amazon.com's Significant Seven Robert Jordan kindly agreed to take the life quiz ...
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A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)
George R. R. Martin
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Bantam
November 8, 2005
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Long-awaited doesn't begin to describe this fourth installment in bestseller Martin's staggeringly epic Song of Ice and Fire. Speculation has run rampant since the previous entry, ...
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The Narrows
Alexander C. Irvine
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September 27, 2005
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Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
Richard K. Morgan
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Del Rey
September 27, 2005
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In Morgan's powerful third cyberpunk noir SF novel to feature Takeshi Kovacs, whose consciousness is transferred from one ultra...
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