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Best Science Fiction Books of 2014
Our Picks for the Best Science Fiction Reads of the 2014 Year
See the rankingIt was an extraordinary year for science fiction, with so many books challenging for our attention that any of half a dozen titles could have made the top spot, and so many other works of interest appearing that it was hard to keep this list down to just 25.
Generally speaking, it was a year in which William Gibson returned to science fiction, in which Ann Leckie produced a follow-up to the book that won just about every award going, in which Jeff VanderMeer produced all three volumes of a trilogy within the space of just nine months. It was a year in which more and more mainstream writers ventured into the genre, from Howard Jacobson to David Mitchell. It was a year in which we finally got to discover what Chinese science fiction is like with the first translation of a novel by Cixin Liu. It was a year of stunning debuts from Nina Allan and Laline Paull.
It was a year … well, better to just read the list.
The ranking
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The shortlist
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