Welcome to our Best of 2008 top 10 lists in Science Fiction & Fantasy. This year we've put our editors' picks and our year-end bestsellers for each category on the same page together, so you can easily compare. Click on "Editors' Picks" to see our editors' list of the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2008, including our top pick, Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America. And click on "Customer Favorites" to find the bestselling science fiction and fantasy books at Amazon.com during 2008. (Ranked according to customer orders through October. Only books published for the first time in 2008 are eligible.) See more editors' picks and customers' favorites in our Best of 2008 Store.
From Publishers Weekly Following close upon the release of The Shadow Year, Edgar-winner Ford's third collection leads readers down dark and subtle passageways onto some very strange turf. In the title story, people drown and end up in a submerged city whose inhabitants are scornful of anyone wanting to return to the ...
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Amazon.com Review In four previous novels, Jack O'Connell has established a reputation as an author of literary-suspense and thriller-noir. This time, with ...
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From Publishers Weekly In this follow-up to his historical Baroque Cycle trilogy, which fictionalized the early-18th century scientific revolution, Stephenson (...
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From Publishers Weekly Prize-winning Brit Winterson applies her fantastical touch to a sci-fi, postapocalyptic setting. Heroine Billie Crusoe appears in three different end-of-the-world scenarios, allowing Winterson to explore the repetitive and destructive nature of human histo...
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From Publishers Weekly Naomi Novik continues her alternate history of the Napoleonic wars in this fifth adventure featuring British Capt. William Laurence and his faithful celestial dragon, Temeraire. Picking up after ...
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