Lista de lecturas de 2013 recomendadas por Locus

La revista Locus acaba de publicar su siempre interesante lista de lecturas recomendadas, entre aquellas obras publicadas en 2013. Esta lista forma también la "base oficiosa" para la votación de losescogidas Premios Locus, que debería abrirse en breve.

Las obras seleccionadas este año son las siguientes:

Novela – Ciencia Ficción

Finches of Mars, Brian Aldiss (The Friday Project) iD: The Second Machine Dynasty, Madeline Ashby (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK) Jupiter War, Neal Asher (Tor UK; Night Shade ’14) MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood (McClelland & Stewart; Bloomsbury; Talese) The Last President, John Barnes (Ace) Lexicon, Max Barry (Penguin; Mulholland UK) Proxima, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Roc ’14) Protector, C.J. Cherryh (DAW) Abaddon’s Gate, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK) The Arrows of Time, Greg Egan (Gollancz; Night Shade ’14) The Cusanus Game, Wolfgang Jeschke (Tor) The Best of All Possible Worlds, Karen Lord (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher UK) Evening’s Empires, Paul McAuley (Gollancz) The Red: First Light, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island) The Adjacent, Christopher Priest (Gollancz; Titan US ’14) On the Steel Breeze, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace ’14) Shaman, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Neptune’s Brood, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK) Burning Paradise, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) Countdown City, Ben H. Winters (Quirk)

Novela – Fantasía

The Tyrant’s Law, Daniel Abraham (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Life After Life, Kate Atkinson (Doubleday UK; Reagan Arthur) American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit) The Shining Girls, Lauren Beukes (Random House Struik South Africa; Harper Collins UK; Mulholland Books) The Aylesford Skull, James P. Blaylock (Titan) London Falling, Paul Cornell (Tor UK; Tor) Cold Steel, Kate Elliott (Orbit US; Orbit UK) The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review) NOS4A2, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz as NOS4R2) Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central) The Year of the Ladybird, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday as The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit ’14) Dead Set, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US) River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay (Roc; Viking Canada; HarperCollins UK) Doctor Sleep, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton) Joyland, Stephen King (Hard Case Crime) Wake, Elizabeth Knox (Victoria University Press) Datura (Or a Delusion We All See), Leena Krohn (Cheeky Frawg) The Republic of Thieves, Scott Lynch (Del Rey; Gollancz) The Village Sang to the Sea: A Memoir of Magic, Bruce McAllister (Aeon) The Scrivener’s Tale, Fiona McIntosh (Harper Voyager Australia; Harper Voyager US) Between Two Thorns, Emma Newman (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK) Anno Dracula 1976-1991: Johnny Alucard, Kim Newman (Titan US; Titan UK) Red Moon, Benjamin Percy (Grand Central; Hodder & Stoughton) Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; Doubleday US ’14) The Violent Century, Lavie Tidhar (Hodder; PS Publishing) Blood Oranges, Kathleen Tierney (Roc) Necessary Evil, Ian Tregillis (Tor; Orbit UK) The Land Across, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

Libro juvenil

Zombie Baseball Beatdown,Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown) Doll Bones, Holly Black (McElderry; Doubleday UK) The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Indigo) The Woken Gods, Gwenda Bond (Strange Chemistry US; Strange Chemistry UK) The Living, Matt de la Peña (Delacorte) Homeland, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen; Titan) The Golden Day, Ursula Dubosarsky (Allen & Unwin ’11; Candlewick) The Lord of Opium, Nancy Famer (Atheneum; Simon & Schuster UK) When We Wake, Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin; LIttle, Brown) The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine) Mortal Fire, Elizabeth Knox (Foster) September Girls, Bennett Madison (Harper Teen) Hysteria, Megan Miranda (Walker US; Bloomsbury) More Than This, Patrick Ness (Candlewick; Walker) The Dream Thieves, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic; Scholastic UK) Burning Sky, Sherry Thomas (Balzer + Bray) The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends) The Waking Dark, Robin Wasserman (Knopf; Atom UK)

Novela de debut

The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic, Emily Croy Barker (Dorman) The Golden City, J. Kathleen Cheney (Roc) Wolfhound Century, Peter Higgins (Orbit US; Gollancz) Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer) The Age of Ice, J.M. Sidorova (Scribner) The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker (Harper) The Scroll of Years, Chris Willrich (Pyr) A Questionable Shape, Bennett Sims (Two Dollar Radio)

Colección de relatos

Stardust: The Ruby Castle Stories, Nina Allan (PS Publishing) The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 5: The Door to Anywhere, Poul Anderson (NESFA) North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer) The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories, Laird Barron (Night Shade) Before and Afterlives, Christopher Barzak (Lethe) What the Doctor Ordered, Michael Blumlein (Centipede) Trafalgar, Angelica Gorodischer (Small Beer) The Best of Joe Haldeman, Joe Haldeman (Subterranean) The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean) Space Is Just a Starry Night, Tanith Lee (Aqueduct) Conservation of Shadows, Yoon Ha Lee (Prime) In Search Of and Others, Will Ludwigsen (Lethe) Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod,Ian R. MacLeod (Open Road Media) The Very Best of Barry N. Malzberg, Barry N. Malzberg (NonStop) A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley,Paul McAuley (PS Publishing) Caution: Contains Small Parts, Kirstyn McDermott (Twelve Planets) Kabu Kabu, Nnedi Okorafor (Prime) Antiquities and Tangibles and Other Stories, Tim Pratt (Merry Blacksmith) The Story Until Now, Kit Reed (Wesleyan University Press) The Greatship, Robert Reed (Argo-Navis) Adam Robots, Adam Roberts (Gollancz) Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell (Knopf) Five Autobiographies and a Fiction, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean) The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Eight: Hot Times in Magma City, Robert Silverberg (Subterranean) How the World Became Quiet, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean) The Bread We Eat in Dreams, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean) Magic Highways: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Three, Jack Vance (Subterranean) Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe and Other Stories, John Varley (Subterranean) Horse of a Different Color, Howard Waldrop (Small Beer) Beyond the Rift, Peter Watts (Tachyon) The Best of Connie Willis, Connie Willis (Del Rey)

Antología de relatos originales

The Other Half of the Sky, Athena Andreadis & Kay Holt, eds. (Candlemark & Gleam) Twelve Tomorrows, Stephen Cass, ed. (MIT Technology Review) Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Tor) Old Mars, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam) Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe, J.E. Mooney & BillFawcett, eds. (Tor) We See a Different Frontier, Fabio Fernandes & Djibril al-Ayad, eds. (Futurefire) Once Upon a Time, Paula Guran, ed. (Prime) Rags and Bones, Melissa Marr & Tim Pratt, eds. (Little, Brown; Headline) End of the Road, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK) Exotic Gothic 5, Danel Olsen, ed. (PS Publishing) The Lowest Heaven, Anne C. Perry & Jared Shurin, eds. (Jurassic London) Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK) Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, Ian Whates, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Antología de relatos reeditados

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade) The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin; Robinson as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 26) Unnatural Creatures, Neil Gaiman & Maria Dahvana Headley, eds. (Harper; Bloomsbury) The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition, Paula Guran, ed. (Prime) Year’s Best SF 18, David G. Hartwell, ed. (Tor) 21st Century Science Fiction, David Hartwell & Patrick Nielsen Hayden, eds. (Tor) The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime) The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 24, Stephen Jones, ed. (Robinson; Running Press) The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Seven, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

No ficción

Parabolas of Science Fiction, Brian Attebery & Veronica Hollinger, eds. (Wesleyan) Benchmarks Revisited, Algis Budrys (Ansible) Benchmarks Concluded, Algis Budrys (Ansible) The Transgressive Iain Banks: Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders, Martyn Colebrook & Katharine Cox, eds. (McFarland) Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, Jeff VanderMeer (Abrams Image) Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, Ytasha L. Womack (Lawrence Hill) Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings, Stefan Ekman (Wesleyan) The Man From Mars: Ray Palmer’s Amazing Pulp Journey, Fred Nadis (Tarcher) The Riddles of the Hobbit, Adam Roberts (Palgrave Macmillan) Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors, Robert H. Waugh, ed. (Scarecrow) Past Masters and Other Bookish Natterings, Bud Webster (Merry Blacksmith) Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler, Rebecca J. Holden & Nisi Shawl, eds. (Aqueduct)

Libros de ilustraciones

Christian Alzmann, Tales: The Art of Christian Alzmann (Design Studio) Hannes Bok, Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration, Joseph Wrzos, ed. (Centipede) Gerald Brom, The Art of Brom, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk) Margaret Brundage, The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage, Stephen D. Korshak & J. David Spurlock, eds. (Vanguard) Spectrum Fantastic Art Live 2, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk) Spectrum 20: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood) Frank Frazetta, The Frazetta Sketchbook, J. David Spurlock, ed. (Vanguard) Frank Frazetta, Frank Frazetta: Art and Remembrances, Frank Frazetta, Jr. (Hermes) Exposé 11, Paul Hellard & Mark Thomas, eds.(Ballistic) Stephan Martiniere, Trajectory(Design Studio) Mark Schulz, Carbon(Flesk) Maurice Sendak, Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work, Justin G. Schiller, Dennis M.V. David & Leonard S. Marcus, eds. (Abrams) Shaun Tan, Rules of Summer (Hachette Australia; Hodder Children’s; Levine ’14) White Cloud Worlds: Volume Two, Paul Tobin, ed. (Ignite) David Wiesner, Mr. Wuffles! (Clarion; Andersen) Fantasy+ 5, Vincent Zhao, ed. (CYPI)

Novelas cortas

Spin, Nina Allen (TTA Press) “Quicken”, Damien Broderick (Beyond the Doors of Death) “Wakulla Springs”, Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages (Tor.com 10/2/13) “Feral Moon”, Alexander Jablokov (Asimov’s 3/13) “The Weight of the Sunrise”, Vylar Kaftan (Asimov’s 2/13) Black Helicopters, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean) “Rock of Ages”, Jay Lake (METAropolis: Green Space) “Iseul’s Lexicon”, Yoon Ha Lee (Conservation of Shadows) “The Princess and the Queen”, George R.R. Martin (Dangerous Women) “The Home of Broken Dolls”, Kirstyn McDermott (Caution: Contains Small Parts) “The Mummy’s Heart”, Norman Partridge (Halloween) “The Queen of Eyes”, Rachel Pollack (F&SF 9-10/13) “Precious Mental”, Robert Reed (Asimov’s 6/13) Six-Gun Snow White, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

Relatos

“Kormak the Lucky”, Eleanor Arnason (F&SF 7-8/13) “The Good Husband”, Nathan Ballingrud (North American Lake Monsters) “Jaws of Saturn”, Laird Barron (The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All) “Paranormal Romance”, Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed 6/13) “A Window or a Small Box”, Jedediah Berry (Tor.com 6/5/13) Chalk, Pat Cadigan (This Is Horror) “The Christmas Show”, Pat Cadigan (Tor.com 12/17/13) “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”, Ted Chiang (Subterranean Fall ’13) “A Hole in the Ether”, Benjamin Crowell (Asimov’s 9/13) “The Waiting Stars”, Aliette de Bodard (Other Half of the Sky) “Zero for Conduct”, Greg Egan (Twelve Tomorrows) “A Hollow Play”, Amal El-Mohtar (Glitter & Mayhem) “A Terror”, Jeffrey Ford (Tor.com 7/24/13) “No Others are Genuine”, Gregory Frost (Asimov’s 10-11/13) “The Sleeper and the Spindle”, Neil Gaiman (Rags and Bones) “The Chorus Line”, Daniel Hatch (Analog 12/13) “Baba Makosh”, M.K. Hobson (F&SF 11-12/13) “The Same Deep Waters as You”, Brian Hodge (Weirder Shadows over Innsmouth) “We, the Fortunate Bereaved”, Brian Hodge (Halloween) “Painted Birds and Shivered Bones”, Kat Howard (Subterranean Spring ’13) “And Then Some”, Matthew Hughes (Asimov’s 2/13) “The Ugly Duckling”, Matthew Hughes (Old Mars) “Watching the Cow”, Alex Irvine (F&SF 1-2/13) “The Soul in the Bell Jar”, K.J. Kabza (F&SF 11-12/13) “The Prayer of Ninety Cats”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Spring ’13) ‘‘We Three Kids’’, Margo Lanagan (www.pspublishing.co.uk 12/13) “The Wreck of the Mars Adventure”, David D. Levine (Old Mars) “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King”, Ken Liu (Lightspeed 8/13) “The Effigy Engine: A Tale of the Red Hats”, Scott Lynch (Fearsome Journeys) “Entangled”, Ian R. Macleod (Asimov’s 12/13) “The Discovered Country”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s 9/13) “What Amanda Wants”, Kirstyn McDermott (Caution: Contains Small Parts) “The Queen of the Night’s Aria”, Ian McDonald (Old Mars) “The Canal Barge Magician’s Number Nine Daughter”, Ian McHugh (Clockwork Phoenix 4) “The Firewall and the Door”, Sean McMullen (Analog 3/13) “Technarion”, Sean McMullen (Interzone 9-10/13) “The Whale God”, Alec Nevala-Lee (Analog 9/13) “The Irish Astronaut”, Val Nolan (Electric Velocipede Spring ’13) “Hotel”, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s 1/13) “The Dragonslayer of Merebarton”, K.J. Parker (Fearsome Journeys) “The Sun and I”, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Summer ’13) “The Year of the Rat”, Chen Quifan (F&SF 7-8/13) “Grizzled Veterans of Many and Much”, Robert Reed (F&SF 5-6/13) “Monday’s Monk”, Jason Sanford (Asimov’s 3/13) “Phosphorus”, Veronica Schanoes (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells) “Cry of the Kharchal”, Vandana Singh (Clarkesworld 8/13) “Meet the President”, Zadie Smith (The New Yorker 8/12/13 & 8/19/13) “The Halloween Men”, Maria V. Snyder (Halloween) “Atmosphaera Incognita”, Neal Stephenson (Starship Century) “The Book Seller”, Lavie Tidhar (Interzone 1-2/13) “Game of Chance”, Carrie Vaughn (Unfettered) “The Unwanted Women of Surrey”, Kaaron Warren (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells) “The Blue Celeb”, Desmond Warzel (F&SF 1-2/13) “At Palomar”, Rick Wilber (Asimov’s 7/13)

Relatos cortos

“Some Desperado”, Joe Abercrombie (Dangerous Women) “The Master Conjurer”, Charlie Jane Anders (Lightspeed 10/13) “Social Services”, Madeline Ashby (An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter) “On the Arrival of the Paddle-Steamer on the Docks of V”, Peter M. Ball (Eclipse Online 2/13) “The Giant in Repose”, Nathan Ballingrud (Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales) “The Herons of Mer de l’Ouest”, M Bennardo (Lightspeed 2/13) “The Penitent”, M Bennardo (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/30/13) “Bloom”, Gregory Norman Bossert (Asimov’s 12/13) “Trans-Siberia: An Account of a Journey”, Sarah Brooks (Interzone 11-12/13) “Gray Wings”, Karl Bunker (Asimov’s 4-5/13) “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere”, John Chu (Tor.com 2/20/13) “The Amnesia Helmet”, F. Brett Cox (Eclipse Online 1/22/13) “Waiting for Medusa”, Jack Dann (Asimov’s 10-11/13) “Karina Who Kissed Spacetime”, Indrapramit Das (Apex 6/13) “The Philip Sidney Game”, Alan DeNiro (Interfictions #2 10/13) “The Wildfires of Antarctica”, Alan DeNiro (Asimov’s 10-11/13) “The Fairy Enterprise”, Jeffrey Ford (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells) “The Science of Herself”, Karen Joy Fowler (The Science of Herself) “Night Train to Paris”, David Gerrold (F&SF 1/13) “Estella Saves the Village”, Theodora Goss (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells) “The Psammophile”, Maria Dhavana Headley (Unlikely Stories 7 11/13) “Such & Such Said to So & So”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Glitter and Mayhem) “The Ink Readers of Doi Saket”, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor.com 4/24/13) “On the Origin of Song”, Naim Kabir (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/3/13) “Difference of Opinion”, Meda Kahn (Strange Horizons 9/9/13) “Soulcatcher”, James Patrick Kelly (Clarkesworld 5/13) “The Promise of Space”, James Patrick Kelly (Clarkesworld 9/13) “The Road of Needles”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales) “Pathways”, Nancy Kress (Twelve Tomorrows) “The Sounds of Old Earth”, Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed 1/13) “Effigy Nights”, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 1/13) “A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel”, Ken Liu (F&SF 1-2/13) “Din Ba Din”, Kate MacLeod (Strange Horizons 8/12/13) “Transitional Forms”, Paul McAuley (Twelve Tomorrows) “The Beasts We Want To Be”, Sam J. Miller (Electric Velocipede Winter ’13) “The Shore at the Edge of the World”, Eugene Mirabelli (F&SF 9-10/13) “A Heap of Broken Images”, Sunny Moraine (We See a Different Frontier) “Halfway Home”, Linda Nagata (Nightmare 9/13) “Fire Above, Fire Below”, Garth Nix (Tor.com 5/8/13) “Town’s End”, Yukimi Ogawa (Strange Horizons 3/11/13) “Misbegotten”, Raphael Ordoñez (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/24/13) “In Metal, In Bone”, An Owomoyela (Eclipse Online 3/23/13) “Cherry Blossoms on the River of Souls”, Richard Parks (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/3/13) “A Stranger from a Foreign Ship”, Tom Purdom (Asimov’s 9/13) “Among Us”, Robert Reed (F&SF 1-2/13) “Mystic Falls”, Robert Reed (Clarkesworld 11/13) “Jack of Coins”, Christopher Rowe (Tor.com 5/1/13) “Rosary and Goldenstar”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 9-10/13) “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer”, Kenneth Schneyer (Clockwork Phoenix 4) “Rag and Bone”, Priya Sharma (Tor.com 4/10/13) “Our Lady of Ruins”, Sarah Singleton (The Dark 12/13) “The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly”, Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clockwork Phoenix 4) “Jinki and the Paradox”, Sathya Stone (Strange Horizons 6/3/13) “The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin”, Michael Swanwick (Shadows of the New Sun) “What Lies at the Edge of a Petal is Love”, Rachel Swirsky (The Dark 10/13) “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love”, Rachel Swirsky (Apex 3/13) “Sing”, Karin Tidbeck (Tor.com 4/13) “Abyssus Abyssum Invocat”, Genevieve Valentine (Lightspeed 2/13) “The Best We Can”, Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com 7/17/13) “The Dead Sea-Bottom Scrolls”, Howard Waldrop (Old Mars) “No Portraits on the Sky”, Kali Wallace (Clarkesworld 4/13) “Firebrand”, Peter Watts (Twelve Tomorrows) “Uncaged”, Gene Wolfe (Rags and Bones) The Fox, Conrad Williams (This Is Horror) “Ilse, Who Saw Clearly”, E. Lily Yu (Apex 5/13) “Loss, with Chalk Diagrams”, E. Lily Yu (Eclipse Online 11/3/13)