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The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book

posted by janrinok on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the best-page-turners dept.

jelizondo writes:

In Science Fiction, some awards have become almost meaningless as they came to be dominated by interests other than the pure enjoyment of a truly good story. The Hugo Awards, for example, have descended into a left/right catfight. They have become as meaningless as a Nobel Peace Prize.

Some, like yours truly, have entirely stopped reading about awards after getting burned once too many times and rely almost entirely on word of mouth or serendipity to find new authors and worthwhile books.

Our recent discussion of "The winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards" brought the idea (from bzipitidoo) that perhaps Soylent News could do a better job of pointing out new works of Science Fiction that could be of interest to soylentils and janrinok supported the idea, going so far as offering a kidney to the best author. (I think he's British, so he might have meant a kidney pie. [Not true, but funny])

Mind you, we would need to separate Science Fiction from Sci-Fi, Fantasy and other genres that have been mishmashed into one by most publishers and awards organizations.

So what do you think? What is the best new author/book in Science Fiction?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by qzm on Friday August 24 2018, @01:39AM (2 children)

    by qzm (3260) on Friday August 24 2018, @01:39AM (#725521)

    A few of the authors I have read in the last 12 months (some of which are also on your list).
    Listing books? thats a lot of work, I tend to read an authors complete works, or at least skim them.

    Ian M.Banks
    Frank Herbert
    James Corey
    Kim Stanley
    Neal Stephenson
    Stephen Baxter
    Gary Gibson
    David Brin
    Alastair Reynolds
    Peter Hamilton
    Larry Niven
    Neal Asher
    Joe Haldeman
    Stanislaw Lem
    Greg Benford
    Greg Egan

    I would however have to question if Arthur Conan Doyle belongs on a SciFi list..

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by pTamok on Friday August 24 2018, @07:00AM (1 child)

    by pTamok (3042) on Friday August 24 2018, @07:00AM (#725672)

    I would add Charles Stross [isfdb.org] and Ken MacLeod to that list, and note that it is Iain M. Banks [isfdb.org], and Peter F. Hamilton [isfdb.org]. You might also want to add in Harry Harrison [isfdb.org].

    If you are a completionist and read all their works, it'll take a while.