Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2009
Explore the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2009! Discover top-rated novels, must-reads, and award-winning titles in this curated list of 2009's finest speculative fiction.
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Lamentation
by Ken Scholes
This remarkable first novel from award-winning short fiction writer Ken Scholes will take readers away to a new world—an Earth so far in the distant …
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Canticle
by Ken Scholes
Come back to the Named Lands in this compelling sequel to Ken Scholes amazing novel Lamentation. It is nine months after the end of the …
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Best Served Cold
by Joe Abercrombie
Duke Orso imagines that he can become king by ending the civil wars that have devastated Styria, but he errs by trying to kill his …
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The Steel Remains
by Richard K. Morgan
Forgotten, feeling obsolete, and living in a backcountry village, one-time war hero Ringil believes that he is past his prime as a warrior, until he …
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Night of Knives
by Ian C. Esslemont
The small island of Malaz and its city gave the great empire its name, but now it is little more than a sleepy, backwater port. …
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Bauchelain and Korbal Broach
by Steven Erikson
The first three tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, the famed necromancers from the Malazan Book of the Fallen, collected in one volume. BLOOD FOLLOWS …
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Cyberabad Days
by Ian McDonald
This collection of seven stories and a thirty-one thousand word original novella revisits the vivid world of near future India that McDonald so successfully depicted …
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A World Too Near
by Kay Kenyon
In Bright of the Sky, Kay Kenyon introduced a milieu unique in science fiction and fantasy: The Entire, a five-armed radial universe that exists in …
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Retribution Falls
by Chris Wooding
SCIENCE FICTION. Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly dysfunctional band of layabouts. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, …
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Boneshaker
by Cherie Priest
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to …