Best Books of 2009
Top 10 Books: Science Fiction & FantasyWelcome to our Best of 2009 top 10 lists for Science Fiction & Fantasy. We've put our editors' picks and our 2009 bestsellers for each category on the same page together, so you can easily compare. Click on "Editors' Picks" to see our editors' list of the best science fiction and fantasy of 2009, including our top pick, Catherynne Valente's richly imagined dreamscape, Palimpsest. And click on "Customer Favorites" to find the bestselling science fiction and fantasy at Amazon.com during 2009. (Ranked according to customer orders through October. Only books published for the first time in 2009 are eligible.) See more editors' picks and customers' favorites in our Best of 2009 Store.
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Palimpsest
Catherynne M. Valente
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Spectra
February 24, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
Four strangers are bound together in adventure, love and occasional sorrow in this parable from Tiptree winner Valente (...
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The Red Tree
Caitlin R. Kiernan
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Roc Trade
August 4, 2009
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"[Caitlín R. Kiernan has] a gift for language that borders on the scary." -Neil Gaiman...
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The Other Lands (Acacia, Book 2)
David Anthony Durham
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Doubleday
September 15, 2009
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Amazon.com Review
Book Description The thrilling new installment in the ambitious Acacia trilogy, praised by the Washington Post as "gripping and sophisticated." A few years have passed since the conquering of the Mein, and Queen Corinn is firmly in control of the Known World--perhaps too firmly. With ...
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American Fantastic Tales Boxed Set
Peter Straub
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Library of America
October 1, 2009
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Product Description
The Library of America presents American Fantastic Tales, an unrivaled two-volume boxed collection of the American Gothic tradition, from Edgar Allan Poe to today's masters of terror and the uncanny-86 stories in all. I. Terror and the Uncanny From Poe to the Pulps 768 pp. II. Terror and ...
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Boneshaker (Sci Fi Essential Books)
Cherie Priest
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Tor Books
September 29, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Maternal love faces formidable challenges in this stellar steampunk tale. In an alternate 1880s America, mad inventor Leviticus Blue is blamed for destroying Civil War...
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The Other City (Eastern European Literature) (Eastern European Literature Series)
Michal Ajvaz
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Dalkey Archive Pr
June 11, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
In Ajvaz's first novel to be translated into English, a Borgesian cohort of freakish creatures, talking birds and eccentric city dwellers lurk on the margins of an alternative Prague. An unnamed protagonist learns that a book written in an unearthly langua...
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Yellow Blue Tibia
Adam Roberts
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Gollancz
September 1, 2009
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"Part a droll comedy of manners parodying the fall of Soviet communism, part an intellectual inquiry into the idea of multiple quantum realities and part an attempt to discover why, despite the ubiquity of reported sightings, UFOs have never been proved to...
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Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
Jonathan Strahan
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Night Shade Books
October 15, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
Australian editor Strahan continues his wide-ranging and occasionally controversial anthology series with 15 boundary-pushing stories. Pat Cadigan's ...
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Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
Christopher Barzak
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Small Beer Press
November 1, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
This anthology celebrates its cross-genre concept as much as its content, with a lengthy introduction, contributor notes, and afterword. Will Ludwigsen's lovely, melancholy "Remembrance is Something Like a House" combines paranormal and true crime elements...
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The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
Jesse Bullington
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Orbit
November 16, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
With liberal inclusion of vomit, gore and turnips, Bullington's bizarre debut follows two monstrous siblings across 1364 Europe and the Middle East as they seek ever-richer graves to rob. The Crusades, the papal schism and the Black Death all make appearan...
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