io9, 20 Best Science Fiction Books of the Decade
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This 2009 list, compiled by Annalee Newitz and other editors of io9, took reception by the critical community into consideration, as well as their own opinions. Titles were listed in alphabetical order by title; they appear below alphabetical by author.
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Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 20
Publication: http://io9.com/5423847/20-best-science-fiction-books-of-the-decade, 2009
- Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (McClelland & Stewart, 2003)
- Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward (Orbit, 2000)
- Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Crown, 2006)
- Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others (Tor, 2002)
- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Bloomsbury, 2004)
- Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (Tor, 2003)
- David Anthony Durham, Acacia (Doubleday, 2007)
- Carol Emshwiller, The Mount (Small Beer Press, 2002)
- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Putnam, 2003)
- Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)
- Ken MacLeod, The Execution Channel (Orbit, 2007)
- China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (Macmillan, 2000)
- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter [series] (Bloomsbury, 2007)
- Geoff Ryman, Air (Or, Have Not Have) (St. Martin's Griffin, 2004)
- Ekaterina Sedia, The Alchemy of Stone (Prime Books, 2008)
- Neal Stephenson, The Baroque Cycle (series, 2003)
- Charles Stross, Glasshouse (Ace, 2006)
- Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (Tor, 2006)
- Jo Walton, Tooth and Claw (Tor, 2003)
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