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Books), by Jonathan Wood;
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
(Greenwillow), by Rae Carson;
2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America
(St. Martin’s Press), by Albert Brooks;
God’s War
(Night Shade Books), by Hurley Kameron;
Reality 36
(Angry Robot), by Guy Haley;
Spellcast
(DAW Books), by Barbara Ashford;
Sword of Fire and Sea
(Pyr), by Erin Hoffman;
Low Town
(Doubleday), by Daniel Polansky;
Kindling the Moon
(Pocket Books), by Jenn Bennett;
Farlander
(Tor), by Col Buchanan;
Revolution World
(Night Shade Books), by Katy Stauber;
A Discovery of Witches
(Viking), by Deborah Harkness;
The Tiger’s Wife
(Random House), by Téa Obreht;
The Night Circus
(Doubleday), by Erin Morgenstern;
The Desert of Souls
(Thomas Durine Books), by Howard Andrew Jones;
The Unremembered
(Tor), by Peter Orullilan;
Seed
(Night Shade Books), by Rob Ziegler;
Of Blood and Honey
(Night Shade Books), by Stina Leicht;
Among Thieves
(Roc), by Douglas Hulick;
Awakenings
(Tor), by Edward D. Lazellari;
Miserere: An Autumn Tale
(Night Shade Books), by Teresa Frohock; and
The Whitefire Crossing
(Night Shade Books), by Courtney Schafer. Unlike last year, when Hannu Rajaniemi’s
The Quantum Thief
soaked up most of the attention, none of these novels seemed to have a real edge in attention or acclaim.
    Night Shade Books obviously published a lot of novels this year, particularly for a small press, and was particularly active in first novels.
    The strongest novella chapbook of the year, by a good margin, was
Silently and Very Fast
(WSFA Press), by Catherynne M. Valente, but there were other good novella chapbooks as well, such as
Jesus and the Eightfold Path
(Immersion Press), by Lavie Tidhar;
Angel of Europa
(Subterranean Press), by Allen Steele;
Blue and Gold
(Subterranean Press), by K. J. Parker;
Gravity Dreams
(PS Publishing), by Stephen Baxter;
The White City
(Subterranean Press), by Elizabeth Bear;
A Brood of Foxes
(Aqueduct), by Kristin Livdahl;
The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs
(Subterranean Press), by James P. Blaylock; and
The Ice Puzzle
(PS Publishing), by Catherynne M. Valente.
    Novel omnibuses this year included:
Flandry’s Legacy
(Baen Books), by Poul Anderson;
Rise of the Terran Empire
(Baen Books), by Poul Anderson;
Introducing Garrett, P.I.
(Roc), by Glen Cook;
Galactic Courier
(Baen Books), by A. Bertram Chandler;
The Crystal Variation
(Baen Books), by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller;
Moonsinger’s Quest
(Baen Books), by Andre Norton; and
Kurt Vonnegut: Novels and Stories 1963–1973
(The Library of America), an omnibus of four novels, three stories, and three non-fiction pieces by Vonnegut. Novel omnibuses are also frequently made available through the Science Fiction Book Club.
     
    Not even counting print-on-demand books and the availability of out-of-print books as ebooks or as electronic downloads from Internet sources such as Fictionwise, a lot of long out-of-print stuff has come back into print in the last couple of years in commercial trade editions. Here are some out-of-print titles that came back into print this year, although producing a definitive list of reissued novels is probably impossible. Tor reissued
The Dragons of Babel,
by Michael Swanwick;
A Fire Upon the Deep,
by Vernor Vinge;
Gods of Riverworld,
by Philip José Farmer;
Territory,
by Emma Bull;
Mindscan,
by Robert J. Sawyer;
Sati,
by Christopher Pike;
The Season of Passage,
by Christopher Pike;
Fleet of Worlds,
by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner;
The Darkest Part of the Woods,
by Ramsey Campbell; and
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!,
by Harry Harrison. Orb reissued:
Stations of the Tide,
by Michael Swanwick;
A Bridge of Years,
by Robert Charles Wilson;
The Chronoliths,
by Robert Charles Wilson;
Stand on Zanzibar,
by John Brunner; and
Trouble and Her Friends,
by Melissa Scott. Tor Teen reissued
Sister Light, Sister Dark,
by Jane Yolen. Baen Books reissued
Starman Jones,
by Robert A. Heinlein. Night Shade Books reissued
An Ill Fate Marshalling, Reap the East Wind,
and A
Matter of