Locus 2004 Recommended Reading in SciFi
Explore the top sci-fi books of 2004 with Locus Magazine's recommended reading list. Discover award-winning and must-read science fiction novels curated by experts.
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Cloud Atlas
by David Stephen Mitchell
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to …
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Air
by Geoff Ryman
What happens when the whole world goes online . . . through the air? A brilliant literary SF novel by the author of 253.
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Frek and the Elixir
by Rudy Rucker
In the year 3003, nothing in the world is the same, except maybe that adolescents are still embarrassed by their parents. Society and the biosphere …
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The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The chilling bestselling alternate history novel of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president whose government embraces …
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The Confusion
by Neal Stephenson
In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises …
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The System of the World
by Neal Stephenson
England, 1714. London has long been home to a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist, Isaac Newton, and …
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Forty Signs of Rain
by Kim Stanley Robinson
The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt presents a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, …
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Banner of Souls
by Liz Williams
One of Mars's most elite warriors must travel to Earth, where she is assigned to guard a very special child. The girl's name is Lunae …
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Iron Sunrise
by Charles Stross
“[Stross] has the ability to superimpose an intriguing take on contemporary events over an imaginative story peopled by bizarre characters.” – The Kansas City Star …
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Exultant
by Stephen Baxter
“Baxter has an uncanny gift for mixing a punchy, cyberpunk cynicism with his resolutely hard SF story base. . . . [Exultant] rivals Asimov in …
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