Dec. 10th, 2009

jeffreyab: (1959 Hugo)
So what do people think are the Top Ten Science Fiction Novels of the Last Decade?

Some possibles the award winners:

HUGOS voted by members of that year's World Science Fiction Convention

2009 : The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
2008 : The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
2007 : Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge
2006 : Spin, Robert Charles Wilson
2005 : Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
2004 : Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
2003 : Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer
2002 : American Gods, Neil Gaiman
2001 : Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
2000 : A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge

NEBULAS voted by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America:

2009 : Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin
2008 : The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
2007 : Seeker, Jack McDevitt
2006 : Camouflage, Joe Haldeman
2005 : Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold

2004 : The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon
2003 : American Gods, Neil Gaiman
2002 : The Quantum Rose, Catherine Asaro
2001 : Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear
2000 : Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler

LOCUS awards voted by the readers of LOCUS magazine:

2009 Anathem, Neal Stephenson
2008 The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
2007 Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge
2006 Accelerando, Charles Stross
2005 The Baroque Cycle: The Confusion;
The System of the World, Neal Stephenson
2004 Ilium, Dan Simmons
2003 The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson
2002 Passage, Connie Willis

2001 The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin
2000 Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson

Which ones have people read and liked or hated?
I have read and like the bolded ones however I bogged down during the Baroque Cycle and have yet to finish it. O these one I have read I would put Charles Stross' Accelerando at number one for inventive ideas and being well written.

Which novels not on this list deserve to be in the top ten?

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