logo.png

Newsletter & Monthly Specials

TED Client Showcase

Monthly Special

dollar_sign_2 For the month of February, 2012 we will be offering a 10% discount on all Manuscript Evaluations. For more information, click here.

Tuesday Review Wrapup: Best of Science Fiction 2009 Print E-mail
AddThis Social Bookmark Button

We love books here at the Editorial Department...even the ones we weren't personally involved with. However, with dozens of newspapers, magazines and websites covering new releases, it can be difficult to keep track of what people are saying about books newly on shelves. To try to resolve that dilemma, we offer our Tuesday Review Wrapup, using the last sentences of prominent book reviews as literary tea leaves to discern the trends guiding our industry. This week,book review sections have been turned over to a series of best of lists for the year and the decade as a whole, so we give in with a recap of the best of 2009 in science fiction (and some fantasy, as well).

Amazon.com's Editors' top ten

•  Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente

•  The Red Tree, by Caitlin R. Kiernan

•  The Other Lands, by David Anthony Durham

•  American Fantastic Tales, ed. Peter Straub

•  Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest

•  The Other City, by Michal Ajvaz

•  Yellow Blue Tibia, by Adam Roberts

•  Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Jonathan Strahan

•  Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, ed. Christopher Barzak

•  The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, by Jesse Bullington

Ed Park, Los Angeles Times

•  The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, by J.G. Ballard

The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories, by Joan Aiken

•  American Fantastic Tales, ed. Peter Straub

•  Magicians, by Lev Grossman

•  Big Machine, by Victor LaValle

Rose Fox, Genreville

•  The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi

•  Lovecraft Unbound, ed. Ellen Datlow

•  The Devil's Alphabet, by Daryl Gregory

•  The City & the City, by China Miéville

•  Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest


Dan Gibson
About the author:
Dan Gibson is a writer and editor who cannot resist the siren's call of Tucson, Arizona, moving away several times only to be drawn back again.  He joined The Editorial Department in spring of 2009 to co-manage Between the Lines and to monitor and report on all manner of publishing trends. Between bouts of glazed-over staring at a computer screen, he tries to spend as much time as he can with his family, the stack of compact discs piled on his desk and playing soccer.
 

Add comment

We trust everyone to behave like adults and comment in a civilized manner. Users posting hateful or inflammatory comments, or obviously trolling, will be moderated or banned at the site owner's discretion.


Security code
Refresh


Please call (520)546-9992 or email us at admin@editorialdepartment.com if you have problems using this verification tool.

TED Client Testimonials

"We are happy with Peter's help, and feel he did a great job. This being our first book, we had no idea how hard it would be to write, and Peter's hand holding was a strong aide for us. Peter did a phenomenal job building more character into our book and streamlining it. Overall, we are happy and would work with Peter again."

Ben Miller & Travis Wolfe

Grandville, MI

 

This VisibleWebSite™ is brought to you by The 3rd Party Media Alliance Group and Coastland Technologies