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):
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.
