Como es habitual, en su número de Febrero la revista Locus ha publicado la lista de lecturas recomendadas de 2012. He de decir que no estoy demasiado de acuerdo con algunas de las obras incluidas (y con algunas de las flagrantes omisiones), pero dado el interés que tiene este listado y que suele orientar bastante el posterior proceso de votación de los Premios Locus, la reproduzco aquí en su integridad (os recomiendo también visitar esta entrada de Locusmag donde se proporcionan enlaces a las obras de la lista que están disponibles online de forma gratuita).
Novelas de ciencia ficción
- The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Bowl of Heaven, Gregory Benford & Larry Niven (Tor)
- Any Day Now, Terry Bisson (Overlook Press; Duckworth ’13)
- Blueprints of the Afterlife, Ryan Boudinot (Black Cat)
- Arctic Rising, Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)
- Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois Mcmaster Bujold (Baen)
- Intruder, C. J. Cherryh (DAW)
- Caliban’s War, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross (Tor)
- The Eternal Flame, Greg Egan (Night Shade; Gollancz)
- Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway (Heinemann; Knopf)
- Empty Space, M. John Harrison (Gollancz; Night Shade ’13)
- Rapture, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade)
- Intrusion, Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
- In the Mouth of the Whale, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
- Fate of Worlds, Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner (Tor)
- The Fractal Prince, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor)
- Blue Remembered Earth, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace)
- Jack Glass, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel, Rudy Rucker (Transreal Books)
- Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
- Ashes of Candesce, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
- Lost Everything, Brian Francis Slattery (Tor)
- Slow Apocalypse, John Varley (Ace)
- The Fourth Wall, Walter Jon Williams (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Last Policeman, Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books)
Novelas de fantasía
- Whispers Under Ground, Ben Aaronovitch (Del Rey; Gollancz)
- Red Country, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz; Orbit US)
- The King’s Blood, Daniel Abraham (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Troupe, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Queen’s Hunt, Beth Bernobich (Tor)
- The Ruined City, Paula Brandon (Spectra)
- The Steel Seraglio, Mike Carey, Linda Carey & Louise Carey (ChiZine; Gollancz ’13 como The City of Silk and Steel)
- Boneland, Alan Garner (Fourth Estate)
- The Killing Moon, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
- Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
- And Blue Skies from Pain, Stina Leicht (Night Shade)
- Bullettime, Nick Mamatas (ChiZine)
- Sharps, K. J. Parker (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers (Morrow; Corvus)
- The Mirage, Matt Ruff (HarperCollins)
- The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross (Ace)
- Crandolin, Anna Tambour (Chômu)
- Worldsoul, Liz Williams (Prime)
Novelas juveniles
- The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown; Atom)
- Black Heart, Holly Black (McElderry; Gollancz)
- Zeuglodon, James P. Blaylock (Subterranean)
- The Diviners, Libba Bray (Little, Brown; Atom)
- The Crown of Embers, Rae Carson (Greenwillow; Gollancz)
- Bitterblue, Kristin Cashore (Dial; Gollancz)
- Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen)
- Radiant Days, Elizabeth Hand (Viking)
- A Face Like Glass, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan)
- The Chaos, Nalo Hopkinson (McElderry)
- Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Fickling UK; Knopf como The Brides of Rollrock Island)
- Team Human, Justine Larbalestier & Sarah Rees Brennan (HarperTeen; Allen & Unwin)
- Every Day, David Levithan (Knopf)
- Son, Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin)
- Be My Enemy, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Jo Fletcher ’13)
- Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
- The Broken Lands, Kate Milford (Clarion)
- Dodger, Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins; Doubleday UK)
- Apollo’s Outcasts, Allen Steele (Pyr)
- The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)
- Days of Blood & Starlight, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends; Much-in-Little ’13)
Novelas de debut
- Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz ’13)
- Goblin Secrets, William Alexander (McElderry)
- vN, Madeline Ashby (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
- The Gathering Dark, Leigh Bardugo (Indigo; Holt como Shadow and Bone)
- Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling, Michael Boccacino (Morrow; Titan)
- Blackwood, Gwenda Bond (Strange Chemistry US; Strange Chemistry UK)
- Wide Open, Deborah Coates (Tor)
- Sanctum, Sarah Fine (Amazon Children’s Publishing)
- Bad Glass, Richard E. Gropp (Del Rey)
- Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Random House; Doubleday UK)
- The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur; Headline Review)
- Rituals, Roz Kaveney (Plus One)
- The Games, Ted Kosmatka (Del Rey; Titan)
- The Man from Primrose Lane, James Renner (Crichton; Corsair ’13)
- Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
Colecciones de relatos
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Novelas cortas
- ‘‘The Moon Belongs to Everyone’’, Michael Alexander & K.C. Ball (Analog 12/12)
- ‘‘Hand of Glory’’, Laird Barron (The Book of Cthulhu II)
- ‘‘In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns’’, Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s 1/12)
- ‘‘Twenty Lights to ‘The Land of Snow’’’, Michael Bishop (Going Interstellar)
- ‘‘Maze of Shadows’’, Fred Chappell (F&SF 5-6/12)
- ‘‘Gods of Risk’’, James S.A. Corey (Orbit Short Fiction)
- On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard (Immersion Press)
- ‘‘The Last Judgment’’, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s 4-5/12)
- After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
- ‘‘The Stars Do Not Lie’’, Jay Lake (Asimov’s 10-11/12)
- ‘‘The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future’’, Jay Lake (Subterranean Spring ’12)
- ‘‘Let Maps to Others’’, K.J. Parker (Subterranean, Summer ’12)
- ‘‘Sudden, Broken, and Unexpected’’, Steven Popkes (Asimov’s 12/12)
- ‘‘Murder Born’’, Robert Reed (Asimov’s 2/12)
- ‘‘Eater-of-Bone’’, Robert Reed (Eater-of-Bone)
- ‘‘Katabasis’’, Robert Reed (F&SF 11-12/12)
- ‘‘The Mongolian Book of the Dead’’, Alan Smale (Asimov’s 10-11/12)
- ‘‘Sky’’, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)
- The Boolean Gate, Walter Jon Williams (Subterranean)
Relatos
- ‘‘Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery’’, Eleanor Arnason (Eclipse Online 11/12/12)
- ‘‘Mating Habits of the Late Cretaceous’’, Dale Bailey (Asimov’s 9/12)
- ‘‘The Witch of Duva: A Ravkan Folk Tale’’, Leigh Bardugo (Tor.com 6/6/12)
- ‘‘Frontier Death Song’’, Laird Barron (Nightmare 10/12)
- ‘‘Invisible Men’’, Christopher Barzak (Eclipse Online 12/10/12)
- ‘‘Faster Gun’’, Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 8/12)
- ‘‘No Decent Patrimony’’, Elizabeth Bear (Rip-Off!)
- ‘‘The Telling’’, Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
- ‘‘Beasts’’, Elizabeth Bourne (Interzone 5-6/12)
- ‘‘The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi’’, Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity)
- ‘‘The Ghosts of Christmas’’, Paul Cornell (Tor.com 12/19/12)
- ‘‘Weep for Day’’, Indrapramit Das (Asimov’s 8/12)
- ‘‘Troll Blood’’, Peter Dickinson (F&SF 9-10/12)
- ‘‘Close Encounters’’, Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)
- ‘‘Black Box’’, Jennifer Egan (The New Yorker 6/4/12)
- ‘‘The Keats Variation’’, K. M. Ferebee (Strange Horizons 6/4/12-6/11/12)
- ‘‘The Journeyman: On the Short-Grass Prairie’’, Michael F. Flynn (Analog 10/12)
- ‘‘The Wish Head’’, Jeffrey Ford (Crackpot Palace)
- ‘‘The Castle that Jack Built’’, Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
- ‘‘The Grinnell Method’’, Molly Gloss (Strange Horizons 9/3/12-9/10/12)
- The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story, Theodora Goss (Quirk)
- ‘‘Siege Perilous’’, Daniel Hatch (Analog 11/12)
- ‘‘Game’’, Maria Dahvana Headley (Subterranean Fall ’12)
- ‘‘Scry’’, Anne Ivy (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/8/12)
- ‘‘The Pest House’’, Carole Johnstone (Black Static 4-5/12)
- ‘‘After the People Lights Have Gone Off’’, Stephen Graham Jones (Phantasmagorium 11/12)
- ‘‘Declaration’’, James Patrick Kelly (Rip-Off!)
- ‘‘Fake Plastic Trees’’, Caitlín R. Kiernan (After)
- ‘‘The Color Least Used by Nature’’, Ted Kosmatka (F&SF 1-2/12)
- ‘‘The Lady Astronaut of Mars’’, Mary Robinette Kowal (Rip-Off!)
- ‘‘Liberty’s Daughter’’, Naomi Kritzer (F&SF 5-6/12)
- ‘‘Significant Dust’’, Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape)
- ‘‘Unsilenced’’, Karalynn Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/12)
- ‘‘The Battle of Candle Arc’’, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 10/12)
- ‘‘Old Paint’’, Megan Lindholm (Asimov’s 7/12)
- ‘‘Arbeitskraft’’, Nick Mamatas (The Mammoth Book of Steampunk)
- ‘‘Bruce Springsteen’’, Paul McAuley (Asimov’s 1/12)
- ‘‘Swift, Brutal Retaliation’’, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com, 1/4/12)
- ‘‘Ninety Thousand Horses’’, Sean McMullen (Analog 1-2/12)
- ‘‘Electrica’’, Sean McMullen (F&SF 3-4/12)
- ‘‘The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward’’’, Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear (Drabblecast 8/31-9/6/12)
- ‘‘Nahiku West’’, Linda Nagata (Analog 10/12)
- ‘‘One Little Room An Everywhere’’, K.J. Parker (Eclipse Online 10/22/12)
- ‘‘In the Palace of the Jade Lion’’, Richard Parks (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 7/26/12)
- ‘‘Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls’’, Rachel Pollack (F&SF 7-8/12)
- Genie, Richard Powers (Byliner)
- ‘‘What Did Tessimond Tell You?’’, Adam Roberts (Solaris Rising 1.5)
- ‘‘The Contrary Gardener’’, Christopher Rowe (Eclipse Online 10/8/12)
- ‘‘Heaven’s Touch’’, Jason Sanford (Asimov’s 8/12)
- ‘‘The Bernoulli War’’, Gord Sellar (Asimov’s 8/12)
- ‘‘Sinking Among Lilies’’, Cory Skerry (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/5/12)
- ‘‘Goddess of Mercy’’, Bruce Sterling (The Future Is Japanese)
- ‘‘The Peak of Eternal Light’’, Bruce Sterling (Edge of Infinity)
- ‘‘The Sea of Trees’’, Rachel Swirsky (The Future Is Japanese)
- ‘‘Astrophilia’’, Carrie Vaughn (Clarkesworld 7/12)
- ‘‘Fireborn’’, Robert Charles Wilson (Rip-Off!)
Relatos cortos
- ‘‘The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times’’, Eleanor Arnason (F&SF 7-8/12)
- ‘‘Things Greater than Love’’, Kate Bachus (Strange Horizons 3/19/12)
- ‘‘Great-Grandmother in the Cellar’’, Peter S. Beagle (Under My Hat)
- ‘‘The Deeps of the Sky’’, Elizabeth Bear (Edge of Infinity)
- ‘‘Bird Walks in New England’’, Michael Blumlein (Asimov’s 7/12)
- ‘‘Twenty-Two and You’’, Michael Blumlein (F&SF 3-4/12)
- ‘‘How We Escaped Our Certain Fate’’, Dan Chaon (21st Century Dead )
- ‘‘Scattered Along the River of Heaven’’, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 1/12)
- ‘‘Immersion’’, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)
- ‘‘The Ballad of the Wayfaring Stranger and the Dead Man’s Whore’’, Sean Demory (Self published 4/12)
- ‘‘Nightside Eye’’, Terry Dowling (Cemetery Dance 4/12 )
- ‘‘Nanny Grey’’, Gemma Files (Magic)
- ‘‘Blood Drive’’, Jeffrey Ford (After)
- ‘‘A Natural History of Autumn’’, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 7-8/12)
- ‘‘A Love Supreme’’, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Discover 10/12)
- ‘‘England Under the White Witch’’, Theodora Goss (Clarkesworld 10/12)
- ‘‘In Autotelia’’, M. John Harrison (Arc 1.1)
- ‘‘Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream’’, Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed 7/12)
- ‘‘Beside Calais’’, Samantha Henderson (Strange Horizons 5/14/12)
- ‘‘The Easthound’’, Nalo Hopkinson (After)
- ‘‘The Least of the Deathly Arts’’, Kat Howard (Subterranean Winter ’12)
- ‘‘Over the Waves’’, Louise Hughes (Strange Horizons 8/13/12)
- ‘‘Valedictorian’’, N.K. Jemisin (After)
- ‘‘A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight’’, Xia Jia (Ken Liu, translator) (Clarkesworld 2/12)
- ‘‘The Burst’’, C. W. Johnson (Asimov’s 1/12)
- ‘‘Mantis Wives’’, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 8/12)
- ‘‘Bricks, Sticks, Straw’’, Gwyneth Jones (Edge of Infinity)
- ‘‘Goggles (c. 1910)’’, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution)
- ‘‘The Education of a Witch’’, Ellen Klages (Under My Hat)
- ‘‘Scrap Dragon’’, Naomi Kritzer (F&SF 1-2/12)
- ‘‘Elementals’’, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House Fall ’12)
- ‘‘Uncle Flower’s Homecoming Waltz’’, Marissa K. Lingen (Tor.com 2/12)
- ‘‘Two Houses’’, Kelly Link (Shadow Show)
- ‘‘Mono No Aware’’, Ken Liu (The Future Is Japanese)
- ‘‘The Man’’, Paul McAuley (Arc 1.2)
- ‘‘Antarctica Starts Here’’, Paul McAuley (Asimov’s 10-11/12)
- ‘‘Macy Minnot’s Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler’s Green, the Potter’s Garden’’, Paul McAuley (Edge of Infinity)
- ‘‘Chitai Heiki Koronbin’’, David Moles (The Future Is Japanese)
- ‘‘Blue Lace Agate’’, Sarah Monette (Lightspeed 1/12)
- ‘‘The Magician’s Apprentice’’, Tamsyn Muir (Weird Tales Winter ’12)
- ‘‘About Fairies’’, Pat Murphy (Tor.com 5/12)
- ‘‘Nightside on Callisto’’, Linda Nagata (Lightspeed 5/12)
- ‘‘Breathe’’, Steven Popkes (F&SF 11-12/12)
- ‘‘Tyche and the Ants’’, Hannu Rajaniemi (Edge of Infinity)
- ‘‘Prayer’’, Robert Reed (Clarkesworld 5/12)
- ‘‘The Water Thief’’, Alastair Reynolds (Arc 1.1)
- ‘‘Patagonia’’, Joel Richards (Asimov’s 3/12)
- ‘‘Burning Castles’’, M. Rickert (Under My Hat)
- ‘‘The Ballad of Boomtown’’, Priya Sharma (Black Static 4-5/12)
- ‘‘Dumb Lucy’’, Robert Shearman (Magic)
- ‘‘Joke in Four Panels’’ AKA ‘‘Madalyn Morgan’’, Robert Shearman (www.justsosospecial.com)
- ‘‘Ruminations in an Alien Tongue’’, Vandana Singh (Lightspeed 4/12)
- ‘‘Twember’’, Steve Rasnic Tem (Interzone 3-4/12)
- ‘‘Rebecka’’, Karin Tidbeck (Jagannath)
- ‘‘Reindeer Mountain’’, Karin Tidbeck (Jagannath)
- ‘‘The Memcordist’’, Lavie Tidhar (Eclipse Online 12/24/12)
- ‘‘A Brief History of the Great Pubs of London’’, Lavie Tidhar (Pandemonium)
- ‘‘Under the Eaves’’, Lavie Tidhar (Robots: The Recent A.I.)
- ‘‘(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky’’, E Catherine Tobler (Clarkesworld 11/12)
- ‘‘One Breath, One Stroke’’, Catherynne M. Valente (The Future Is Japanese)
- ‘‘Coming of Age on Barsoom’’, Catherynne M. Valente (Under the Moons of Mars)
- ‘‘A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones’’, Genevieve Valentine (Clarkesworld 10/12)
- ‘‘The Philosophy of Ships’’, Caroline M. Yoachim (Interzone 11-12/12)
¿Y cuáles serían esas flagrantes omisiones? Porque puede que sean mucho más interesantes que los que hay por la lista. Aunque sí es cierto que algunas de ellas, como la de Hannu, ya están en mi lista de "Seguir".
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Pues igual me animo a hacer una entrada dando mi opinión sobre la lista. Tengo que meditarlo un poco, pero es bastante posible.
EliminarY Tim Powers aun escribe? Lo tenia por desaparecido en combate.
ResponderEliminarLlevaba unos años sin publicar nada, pero en 2012 sacó esta novela (secuela de La fuerza de su mirada, al parecer) y una novela corta de viajes en el tiempo.
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