Who were the best Science Fiction Novelists of the past decade?

Firstly all of these people won at least two awards except Alastair Reynolds who I include because of the million dollar contract and one win.

I was using this list:

MAJOR AWARDS from http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/index.html
Hugo
Nebula
John W. Campbell
Theodore Sturgeon
Arthur C. Clarke
Philip K. Dick

Plus: British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel

I was looking for awards from fairly big pools of potential nominees.

Being limited to 15 entries does make it hard to decide who to put on the list and who not.

Secondly being a child of the sixties I have limited it to science fiction writers excluding writers who identify as fantasy or horror writers. My bias is that I am interested in stories that deal with extrapolation of the current universe and effects of that extrapolation on the story and its characters. I am not interested in being scared in new ways or fascinated by magical worlds.

I have given an option for overlooked writers but please put in comments why you think they should be considered for the list.


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New at the Sarnia Library on DVD Sky Crawlers

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From Wikipedia:
"The Sky Crawlers is set in an alternate history where, although the world is at peace, in order to ease the tension of a populace accustomed to war and aggression, private corporations contract fighter pilots to stage combat operations against each other for show. The film introduces a mystery involving characters called Kildren (キルドレ, Kirudore}[{could also be translated into "kill-dolls"?), humanoids genetically designed to live eternally in adolescence until shot down in air battles presented commercially for entertainment, after which they are reproduced.

Author Mori had stated that he felt The Sky Crawlers was the "most difficult" of his works to adapt, and only gave his consent to the making of the film after learning of Oshii's involvement as director."

Oshii being Mamoru Oshii the director of "Ghost in the Shell"

I found the aerial scenes to be intoxicating and accurate while the back story of the characters is revealed in a very interesting manner.

The Sky Crawlers - the opening sequence

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I should mention the director is Mamoru Oshii who has also directed the Patlabor movies, the Ghost in the Shell movies, the Kerberos saga including Jin Ro all very thought provoking and visually stimulating.

His next movie is called Assault Girls and is related to the movie Avalon which I talked about earlier this year.

http://assault-girls.nifty.com/

He needs to be a guest of honour at a worldcon or at least some other convention.

His website:

http://www.oshiimamoru.com/index.htm

Happy Hogmanay!

For those of you not Scottish Happy New Year!

Best Selling Science Fiction

Can anyone name a place where you could determine the bestselling science fiction, not fantasy or horror, novels of the last ten years?

Would you agree with Annalee Newitz that these are the 20 Best Science Fiction Books Of The Decade

The original article is here:

http://io9.com/5423847/20-best-science-fiction-books-of-the-decade

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