Locus magazine has published its annual recommended reading list, which signposts the best in science fiction and fantasy from the previous year.
I was delighted and honored to find that my stories "Petard" (from Twelve Tomorrows) and "The Man Who Sold the Moon" (from Hieroglyph) (excerpt) made the cut (both have also been selected for several of this year's Year's Best anthos, for which I am extremely grateful!).
For me, the publication of the Locus List always marks the day when I fill in my Hugo nominations ballot, using it to jostle my memory and figure out which works I want to put forward. If you're interested in my own eligible works, they're the two stories above (best novelette and novella, respectively), "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free" (best related work) and "In Real Life" (with Jen Wang) (best graphic novel).
Here's the sf novels on this year's list:
* Ultima, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Roc 2015)
* War Dogs, Greg Bear (Orbit US; Gollancz)
* Shipstar, Gregory Benford & Larry Niven (Tor; Titan 2015)
* Chimpanzee, Darin Bradley (Underland)
* Cibola Burn, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
* The Book of Strange New Things, Michel Faber (Hogarth; Canongate)
* The Peripheral, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
* Afterparty, Daryl Gregory (Tor; Titan)
* Work Done for Hire, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
* Tigerman, Nick Harkaway (Knopf; Heinemann 2015)
* Europe in Autumn, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
* Wolves, Simon Ings (Gollancz)
* Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
* Artemis Awakening, Jane Lindskold (Tor)
* The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)
* The Causal Angel, Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor; Gollancz)
* The Memory of Sky, Robert Reed (Prime)
* Bête, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
* Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
* The Blood of Angels, Johanna Sinisalo (Peter Owens)
* The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre)
* Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor (Hodder; Saga 2015)
* All Those Vanished Engines, Paul Park (Tor)
* Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)
* Dark Lightning, John Varley (Ace)
* My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)
* Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor; Head of Zeus 2015)
* World of Trouble, Ben H. Winters (Quirk)
