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SF Site's Readers' Choice: Best Read of the Year: 2009 -- compiled by Neil Walsh
For more than a decade now, SF Site has been annually soliciting you, our readers, to vote for your favourite books of the past year. Over the past couple of months, we've been receiving your input on the best of 2009 with interest, and now we're ready to present the results. What follows is the best books of 2009 as chosen by the SF Site readers.
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Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley
Greater Brazil, in this future, controls most or all of the Americas, and it is the leading force in the Three Powers Alliance, a union of convenience of the three major Earth powers in the war to subdue the Outer Planets. Earth politics is dominated by flavors of radical Greenness, a response to the near destruction of Earth due to climate change. The primary technological effort on Earth is to restore the planet to something like its pristine, prehuman, condition.
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Best of 2009 complied by Greg L. Johnson
If you'd have talked to Greg in the middle of the year, say August or so, you might have heard him bemoan the state of the year thus far in science fiction, few of the books he'd read by that time had struck him as worthy of inclusion on a best of the year list. But that quickly turned around.
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The Conqueror's Shadow by Ari Marmell
Meet Corvis Rebaine, Terror of the East and the most feared man in all of Imphallion. After taking the city of Denathere and digging up something from far below the meeting hall, Corvis mysteriously disappears abandoning his army, his campaign and his chance at ruling all Imphallion. Flash forward the clock twenty years...
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Shade's Children by Garth Nix
The setting is a devastated urban wasteland on a near future Earth, where most of the population have vanished. The disappeared include all who were adult at the time of the cataclysmic event referred to simply as the Change. The world's children are either living wild, or being farmed in huge dormitories, where on their Sad Birthday, aged 14, they are removed to the Meat Factory.
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Retromancer by Robert Rankin
We return to the adventures of Rizla and that paragon of perfection, Hugo Rune. The story begins with young Rizla awakening to discover that not only has the past been changed by evil forces and the Nazis have won the war, but he is also now expected to get a job. In his attempt to avoid the latter, he is captured by the former.
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Where Everything Ends by Ray Bradbury
Widely famous as a SF writer, Ray Bradbury is an eclectic author who in the course of his long career has been dealing with various fiction genres, including mystery. Bookended by the short, previously unpublished and rather unremarkable title story, Where Everything Ends, the present volume collects Bradbury's three mystery novels in a hefty volume.
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Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead by Steve Perry
Indiana Jones has faced Nazis, Communists, Knights, the Holy Grail, Noah's Ark and even found the city of Atlantis in his myriad screen and Expanded Universe exploits. So, keeping up with current popularity, why not throw some zombis into the mix? That's what we find in the first novel adventure of everyone's favorite globe-trotting archaeologist to see print since Max McCoy's Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx back in 1999 from Bantam.
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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
This isn't a novel so much as it is a series of poems and vignettes that that run together, with little continuity between the characters except at the very end, when the war starts on Earth, and several characters are brought back to react to it. This book doesn't succeed because of its plot or characters. It achieves greatness through its language and its lyrical beauty.
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