And, using the same methodology…I don’t get a lot of time each year to read novels, but when I do get the time, these are some of the ones from the Locus list that caught my eye.
January 2011
* de Bodard, Aliette • Harbinger of the Storm • (Angry Robot, tpb)
* Parker, K. J. • The Hammer • (Orbit, tpb)
* Robson, Justina • Down to the Bone • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
* Walton, Jo • Among Others • (Tor, hc)
* Wolfe, Gene • Home Fires • (Tor, hc)
February 2011
* Courtenay Grimwood, Jon • The Fallen Blade • (Orbit, tpb)
* MacLeod, Ian R. • Wake Up and Dream • (PS Publishing, hc)
March 2011
* Barnes, John • Daybreak Zero • (Ace, hc)
* Hardinge, Frances • Twilight Robbery • (Macmillan Children’s Books UK, nvl-ya, hc)
April 2011
* Black, Holly • Red Glove • (McElderry, nvl-ya, hc)
* McIntosh, Will • Soft Apocalypse • (Night Shade Books, tpb)
* Okorafor, Nnedi • The Akata Witch • (Viking, nvl-ya, hc)
May 2011
* Miéville, China • Embassytown • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
* Nix, Garth, & Sean Williams • Troubletwisters • (Scholastic Press, nvl-ya, tpb)
* Scalzi, John • Fuzzy Nation • (Tor, hc)
* Swanwick, Michael • Dancing With Bears • (Night Shade Books, hc)
June 2011
* Reynolds, Alastair • Blue Remembered Earth • (Gollancz, hc)
July 2011
* Goonan, Kathleen Ann • This Shared Dream Called Earth • (Tor, hc)
* Gregory, Daryl • Raising Stony Mayhall • (Ballantine Del Rey, tpb)
* Stross, Charles • Rule 34 • (Orbit, tpb)
August 2011
* Harrison, M. John • Pearlant • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)