The best of 2008

While I’m thinking of it, here is my best of 2008 (reading, of course):

Novels:

• The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
• Up the Line by Robert Silverberg
• Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer
• Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
• The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
• Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
• Cauldron by Jack McDevitt

Non-fiction

• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
  

Short fiction

• "Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress
• "Marrow" by Robert Reed
• "Empty Spaces" by Michael A. Burstein (mabfan )
• "I Remember the Future" by Michael A. Burstein
• "Wake" (Part 1) by Robert J. Sawyer

Special Mention goes to NEW SCIENTIST.  I started reading the magazine in late October and it has quickly become my favorite science magazine.  It’s not as in depth as SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN but it’s got a fun, quirky style to the writing that makes reading it a sheer pleasure.
Subscription I maintain (as of the end of 2008):

• ANALOG
• ASIMOV’S
• F&SF
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
• NEW SCIENTIST
• AOPA PILOT
• SFWA Bulletin

Books I’m looking forward to in 2009:

• We’ll Always Have Paris by Ray Bradbury
• I Remember the Future by Michael A. Burstein
• WWW:Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
• War and Space by Lester Del Rey (edited by shsilver )
• The New Space Opera edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
• The New Space Opera 2 edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
• The Year’s Best SF Volume 26 edited by Gardner Dozois
• Other Spaces, Other Times by Robert Silverberg.