[pat5150]

Hey guys!

Just posted my Top 10 of the year on the blog, and I thought it would be interesting for others to do so!

Here are my picks!

1- Black Man/Thirteen by Richard Morgan
2- Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson
3- Ink by Hal Duncan
4- Brasyl by Ian McDonald
5- Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
6- The Terror by Dan Simmons
7- Dreamsongs, Volume 1 by George R. R. Martin
8- Red Seas under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
9- Fatal Revenant by Stephen R. Donaldson
10- Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik

Cheers,

Patrick

[Imperial Historian]

I think my list goes:

The Lees of Laughters End by Steven Erikson
White Night by Jim Butcher
Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson
Black Man by Richard Morgan
Making Money by Terry Prattchett
The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Before they are hanged by Joe Abercomie
The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds
Empire of Ivory by Naomi Noviks

and I think that's all the 2007 published books I've actually read.... , so the list will probably change after Christmas when I get some more to read.

[paladin]

ysabel made me puke. i would replace it with the name of the wind.. otherwise seems like an okay top 10 kay needs to stick to what hes established that works

i didnt read too many 2007 books, so my top 10 would include every book i read..

[amphibian]

The Terror was an amazing book. Honestly, I think it's Simmons' best work ever (Ilium and Olympos kind of dragged in spots).


Fatal Revenant was awesome. Just an enjoyable book. Gotdang.

I think those are the only books I read off pat's list. I should be getting Reaper's Gale soon, but it is now readily apparent that I no longer read much fantasy or sci-fi anymore.

[Dancer+]

I've read incredibly little new releases this year.

Only Reaper's gale and Fatal Revenant. Both were awesome. I've read a lot of books this year however, just older books.

[caladanbrood]

I thought it was a rather weak year, especially compared to 2006!

1. Black Man - Richard Morgan
2. Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
3. Twilight Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
4. The Dreaming Void - Peter F Hamilton
5. Reaper's Gale - Steven Erikson
6. The Lees of Laughter's End - Steven Erikson
7. Un Lun Dun - China Mieville
8. Hunter's Run - George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, and Daniel Abraham

That's pretty much it, to be honest. I'm loath to put some of the others I've read on, like The Name of the Wind, or Ink, because I didn't enjoy them at all, and a top ten list gives the idea that there's something to recommend them;)

[Morgoth]

hmm..

1. Reaper's Gale - SE
2. Un Lun Dun - China Mieville
3. Ink - Hal Duncan
4. Before they are hanged - Abercrombie
5. The name of the wind - Rothfuss
6. Red seas under red skies - Scott Lynch
7. The Terror - dan simons
8. Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay
9. Dreamsongs - GRRM
10. Making money - Pratchett

Honorary mention to the Fade by god knows who, and A Sword of Red Ice.

[Mentalist]

@ brood: should I spoil it and say that techinically "Twilight watch" was published in 2004?

[QuickTidal]

kud13;235640 said:

@ brood: should I spoil it and say that techinically "Twilight watch" was published in 2004?

Not over here it wasn't. Over here we only started to get the books once the films began to filter over to us. Twilight Watch DID only come out this year in North America. July 2007 to be exact.

[Spindrift]

I don't think i could do a full top 10, but Postsingular - rudy Rucker is by far my favorite for this year (released for free under creative commons, too!)

It's a story about living through a singularity, the plot is all over the place and the characters are .... inconsistent. But it's easily the most creative and interesting thing i've read all year.
it's freaking weird and i love it to bits.

[Werthead]

Still considering my list for 2007 as it's changing every five minutes, although Brasyl and Black Man are definitely the top two.

As for 2008, I'm going to say that Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings will be THE big epic fantasy novel of the year, as it represents an almost jaw-dropping escalation in scale and quality over the first two books. Frankly, unless it's a massive improvement on the last four Malazan novels, I don't think Toll the Hounds is going to beat it (Return of the Crimson Guard could, if it lives up to the promise of the blurb).

[Mentalist]

QuickTidal;235644 said:

Not over here it wasn't. Over here we only started to get the books once the films began to filter over to us. Twilight Watch DID only come out this year in North America. July 2007 to be exact.

Ah yes....the films..
Incidentally, they really should translate Perumov....

[caladanbrood]

kud13;235640 said:

@ brood: should I spoil it and say that techinically "Twilight watch" was published in 2004?

Aye, but i'd have had considerable trouble reading it at that point i'm afraid

[Abyss]

Werthead;235901 said:

...As for 2008, I'm going to say that Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings will be THE big epic fantasy novel of the year, as it represents an almost jaw-dropping escalation in scale and quality over the first two books...

Brainzzzz....

As for top 10, frankly, the below are, i'm pretty sure, all the books that i read this year that were published this year, based on existing addictions or forum reco's...

1. Reaper's Gale
2. Crooked Little Vein
3. White Night
4. Before They Are Hanged
5. Black Man
6. Red Seas...
7. Lees of Laughter's End


And a huge massive food speckled bronx cheer to 'The Last Templar', for actually making me feel stupider for having read it.

- Abyss, also props for kickin it old skool with the Fionavar Tapestry...

[kcf]

I have the obligatory post of my Top 11 reads in 2007 at the blog.

But my top 10 2007 releases are (not in any order)

-Mainspring by Jay Lake
-The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
-The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock
-The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
-Feast of Souls by C.S. Friedman
-New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear
-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
-The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
-Bone Song by John Meaney
-Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson

Spindrift;235646 said:

I don't think i could do a full top 10, but Postsingular - rudy Rucker is by far my favorite for this year (released for free under creative commons, too!)

It's a story about living through a singularity, the plot is all over the place and the characters are .... inconsistent. But it's easily the most creative and interesting thing i've read all year.
it's freaking weird and i love it to bits.

Interesting...I would say this is one of the two worst 2007 releases that I read. To each their own.

[paladin]

noone has The Modern World by Steph Swainston.. bummer

[stone monkey]

To be brutally honest, I don't think 2007 has been a particularly good year in sf and fantasy. Of the books named so far which I've read (which turns out to be most of them) I would say that they've all been disappointments. Mostly in their endings - even The Terror which, I would say, contains the best writing in sf or fantasy I've read this year still peters out towards the end.

[polishgenius]

I haven't read that much new work this year, but it hasn't been an outstanding year. Most of the candidates from established writers that I read - Reaper's Gale, Black Man, Red Seas - were good, but not as memorable in hindsight as previous works - even Red Seas, which I initially said was better. The only impressive debut I read was Name of the Wind, which was good, but not as good as some of last years debuts.
I'm still to read Ink, or White Night, as they both come out in paperback next month in good old Blighty. And I don't know when Modern World pb is due but I'm well up for that, because Steph Swainston is awesome and y'all should read her books, grr.

Edit: Forgot about 'Before They are Hanged'. That was neat.
I really didn't read much new stuff this year. I was going over older books a lot.

[caladanbrood]

paladin;236052 said:

noone has The Modern World by Steph Swainston.. bummer

Haven't actually seen it in any shops. When was it published?

[lfex]

caladanbrood;236262 said:

Haven't actually seen it in any shops. When was it published?

In America it was called Dangerous Offspring, for some obscure reason. And, yes, it definitely would make my top ten list.