Best Books of 2007
Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & FantasyThe Terror, Dan Simmons's retelling of the doomed Franklin expedition to the Arctic as a story of fantastic horror, tops our list of the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2007. See more editors' picks and customers' favorites in our
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The Terror: A Novel
by Dan Simmons
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Little, Brown and Company
January 8, 2007
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Hugo-winner Simmons (Olympos) brings the horrific trials and tribulations of arctic exploration vividly to life in this beautifully written historical, which injects a note of supernatural horror into the 1840s Franklin expedition and its doomed search for the Northwest Passage. Sir John Franklin, the leader of ...
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Brasyl
by Ian McDonald
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Pyr
May 3, 2007
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. British author McDonald's outstanding SF novel channels the vitality of South America's largest country into an edgy, post-cyberpunk free-for-all. McDonald sets up three separate characters in different eras—a cynical contemporary reality-TV producer, a near-future bisexual entrepreneur and a tormented 18th-century Jesuit agent. He then slams them ...
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Territory
by Emma Bull
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Tor Books
July 10, 2007
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. World Fantasy–finalist Bull (War for the Oaks) takes huge chances and achieves something distinctively wonderful with this subtle reworking of a western legend. The taming of Tombstone, Ariz., by Wyatt Earp, his brothers and their pal Doc Holliday is a cherished American myth of stoic heroism. Bull ...
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The Traitor
by Michael Cisco
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Prime
August 1, 2007
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From Publishers Weekly
Cisco (The Tyrant) ups the ante for provocative dark fantasy by giving this coming-of-age tale a subtle metaphysical edge. While still a boy, sensitive Nophtha realizes that he's uncommonly empathetic and able to see the world from the perspective of others. Tutored by his uncle, Nophtha apprentices as an ...
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Spaceman Blues: A Love Song
by Brian Francis Slattery
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Tor Books
August 7, 2007
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Editor/writer/musician Slattery's chaotic debut takes readers on a headlong trip to the end of the world. Manuel Gonz...
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Shelter
by Susan Palwick
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Tor Books
June 12, 2007
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Near-future San Francisco, lashed by climate-change storms, shelters a strange variety of stereotypical beings in Palwick's inflated third exploration (after ...
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The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1)
by Patrick Rothfuss
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DAW Hardcover
March 27, 2007
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon.com's Best of the Year...So Far Pick for 2007: Harry Potter fans craving a new mind-blowing series should look no further than The Name of the Wind--the first book in a trilogy about an orphan boy who becomes a legend. Full of music, magic, love, and loss, Patrick ...
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Thirteen
by Richard K. Morgan
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Del Rey
June 26, 2007
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. This stellar new stand-alone from Morgan, known for his compelling future noir thrillers (Altered Carbon, etc.), raises tantalizing questions about the nature of humanity. Future governments have used genetic manipulation to create subhumans twisted to fit specialized tasks. Normal people are intrigued as well as repulsed, ...
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Tin House: Fantastic Women
by Aimee Bender
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Tin House Magazine
September 28, 2007
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Product Description
Tin House has become a forerunner of brilliant and fresh contemporary fiction, and this astonishing collection captures some of the most promising literary voices writing today. The anthology includes tastes of Aimee Bender's surreal aesthetic, Miranda July's charming and quirky prose, and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum heart-stopping and lyrical ...
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The Coyote Road
by Terri Windling
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Viking Juvenile
July 19, 2007
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From School Library Journal
Grade 6 Up—As they did in The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2002) and The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (2004, both Viking), the editors have assembled 26 stories that present tricksters around the world. A shape-changing Japanese fox-girl comforts a lonely American boy; three ...
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