I attended ReaderCon for the first time this year and (among many others) attended a panel titled: “The Year In Novels”. I was able to get two of the panelists, Rose Fox and Graham Sleight, to recreate some of what they said for this special edition of the podcast.

Rose Fox is a longtime book reviewer currently editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror book reviews for Publishers Weekly and maintains a blog named Genreville.

Graham Sleight is a British writer, editor and critic, whose work has appeared in Strange Horizons, The New York Review Of Science Fiction and Vector. He currently writes a column for Locus.

Rose and Graham mention the following authors and books (please note the books are all Amazon links): Peter Straub’s A Dark Matter and A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter, Greer Gilman’s Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales, Catherynne Valente’s Palimpsest, China Mieville’s The City & The City, Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl, Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House, William Gibson’s Zero History, and N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, Book 1 (The Inheritance Trilogy).

 

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