Best Books of 2008Top 10 Books: Science Fiction & FantasyWelcome 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.
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The Host: A Novel
by Stephenie Meyer
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 (4,239 customer reviews)
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Little, Brown and Company
May 6, 2008
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008: Stephenie Meyer, creator of the phenomenal teen-vamp Twilight series, takes paranormal romance into alien territory in her first adult novel. Those wary of sci-fi or teen angst will be pleasantly surprised by this mature and imaginative thriller, propelled by equal parts action ...
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Small Favor (The Dresden Files, Book 10)
by Jim Butcher
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(229 customer reviews)
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
Roc Hardcover
April 1, 2008
Hardcover
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From Publishers Weekly
Intricate yet accessible plotting and near-Arctic winter weather mark the 10th Harry Dresden adventure from bestseller Butcher (after 2007's ...
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Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
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 (451 customer reviews)
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
William Morrow
September 9, 2008
Hardcover
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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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The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, Book 6)
by Kim Harrison
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(224 customer reviews)
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
Harper Voyager
February 26, 2008
Hardcover
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From Publishers Weekly
Red-headed witch Rachel Morgan has a demon after her, but that's just one of her many troubles in this action-packed sixth installment of Harrison's Hollows series (after 2007's ...
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Cry Wolf (Alpha and Omega, Book 1)
by Patricia Briggs
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(333 customer reviews)
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Ace
July 29, 2008
Mass Market Paperback
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Review
PRAISE FOR THE ALPHA AND OMEGA NOVELS “A TERRIFIC SAGA.”* “Patricia Briggs is amazing…Her Alpha and Omega novels are fantastic. In fact, they’ve contributed greatly to new works in the paranormal romance field featuring werewolves.”—Fresh Fiction “The story line, characters, world…everything is so unbelievably well developed…The Alpha ...
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Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, Book 3)
by Patricia Briggs
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(313 customer reviews)
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Ace
January 2, 2008
Mass Market Paperback
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From Publishers Weekly
Shape-shifter Mercy Thompson has a complex life, juggling two werewolf lovers and a job working for a fae mechanic; things get even more hectic when her boss and mentor is arrested for killing a citizen of the fae reservation. As the fae seem content to le...
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The Gypsy Morph (The Genesis of Shannara, Book 3)
by Terry Brooks
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(102 customer reviews)
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Currently unavailable
Del Rey
August 26, 2008
Hardcover
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Review
Praise for Terry Brooks“A great storyteller, Terry Brooks creates rich epics filled with mystery, magic, and memorable characters. If you haven’t read Terry Brooks, you haven’t read fantasy.”–Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon and Brisingr“Terry’s place is at the head of the fantasy world.” –Philip Pullman, author of The Golden ...
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Invincible (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 9)
by Troy Denning
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 (124 customer reviews)
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
LucasBooks
May 13, 2008
Hardcover
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From School Library Journal
Adult/High School—Although this book is the conclusion to the series, it is engaging for anyone familiar with the original Star Wars films. Readers become reacquainted with familiar characters such as Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Han Solo, and Princess Leia. The story picks up where Karen Traviss's Revelation (Del Rey, ...
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Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4)
by Jack Campbell
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(79 customer reviews)
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Ace
June 24, 2008
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Product Description
?Black Jack? Geary has ordered his fleet back to the Lakota Star System where the Syndics nearly destroyed them, a desperate gamble that may give them a fighting chance of survival?or tear them apart....
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Revelation (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 8)
by Karen Traviss
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 (63 customer reviews)
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LucasBooks
February 26, 2008
Mass Market Paperback
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Product Description
During this savage civil war, all efforts to end Jacen Solo...
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