The Best Books of 2007
I reviewed 52 books here in 2007. These are my Top 5 from that year – in chronological reading order:
Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams
Blood of Victory by Alan Furst
Conventions of War by Walter Jon Williams
Way of the Wolf by E E Knight
The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
The Best Books of 2008
I also reviewed 52 books here in 2008. These are my Top 5 from that year – in chronological reading order:
Permutation City by Greg Egan
The Algebraist by Iain M Banks
The World without Us by Alan Weisman
Black Mass – Apocalyptic Religion and the death of Utopia by John Gray
The Gunpowder Plot – Terror and Faith in 1605 by Antonia Fraser
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7 comments:
Good stuff. I've read 2 of yours from 2008 (Algebraist and World Without Us) and they are among my favorite books of all time.
I'll look out for the rest.
I remember reading "The World Without Us" after seeing a fictional documentary based on it. "After People", it may have been called..
I'll post my Top 5's from 2009 and 2010 at some point. This post is pretty much a fill-in instead of the favourite movie review I never got around to writing over the weekend.
SC: I think I did the same thing.
dbackdad: I think you'll like the SF listed here. It's generally of the harder variety I know you like.
The Algebraist was awesome. Outstanding introduction to Iain M Banks, backed up by Consider Phlebas.
Not really got a favourite from the selection I've read so far this year but Jim Butcher's Storm Front (Harry Dresden) has made an excellent start.
Iain M Banks totally rocks.... One of the best HARD SF authors EVER!
I saw part of the Dresden season on TV - was it cancelled? - it looked interesting and there's certainly plenty of books in the series.
Dresden Files had 1 season of 13 episodes that went pretty well. Don't think it was renewed and they never come back after a few years absence (it ran 2007-2008).
Still, they ended it pretty well. I think I'll queue it up to watch next time I have a gap after going through Babylon 5.
The huge VNSA Used Booksale that I go to ever year is coming up this weekend. I've been sifting through all your books reviews to get some ideas. I have several Greg Egan books in my collection that I haven't read yet. What would you recommend from him? Also, some good ideas on general hard sci-fi authors that I might have missed?
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