Friday 16:00 Orly: You Don't Know SF: What pieces of recent science fiction or fantasy are essential for a reader to have read to understand the current state of the field? Brown, O'Neill, Resnick, MohanrajI am on this panel with Resnick, who I am pretty sure will have very different tastes than mine. I'm not sure who Brown and O'Neill are. I need ammunition -- remind me, please -- what fabulous stuff has been written/published in the last year or two? I've got Matt Ruff's and Elizabeth Moon's books -- what else? My mind is coming up oddly blank...
Jacqueline Carey’s KUSHIEL’S DART, and its sequels?
Neil Gaiman’s AMERICAN GODS?
Don’t forget Bujold’s Chalion books.
I would have to mention Kelly Link’s Stranger Things Happen and Jeff VanderMeer’s City of Saints and Madmen.
Maryanne,
looking more forward to Windycon everyday now! O’Neill, AFAIK, probaby refers to John O’Neill who edits and publishes a fantasy oriented magazine out of St Charles, magazine title is called _Black_ _Gate_. And one would suppose that Brown refers to to Charles N Brown editor of _Locus_.
As far as suggestions, one might be inclined to include M. John Harrison’s _Light_ (a book now on my want to read list), K.S. Robinson’s _Years_ _of_ _Salt_ _and_ _Rice_ (siting on my to be read pile), and Mary Doria Russell’s _Sparrow_(sitting on same pile).