Nprs book concierge is your guide to 2017 s best reads. The future is filled with serious girl power, if the best science fiction books of 2017 have anything to say about it. Speculative fiction is a term encompassing science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other branches of literature not related to literary realism. December 14, 2017 20th century, 21st century, american, authors top books, canadian, cyberpunk, essayist, sci fi, speculative fiction. While 2016 might have been a terrible year in many ways, it was a great year for speculative fiction in translation, and 2017 is on track to be even better. Here, then, is a list of my favorite books of speculative fiction published in 2017, compiled so you can follow my recommendations when confronting your own tottering towers of tobereads. The best science fiction and fantasy of 2017 books the guardian. In this razorsharp alternate history, gerrard imagines the united states mainly new york shaped by a mysterious piece of technology.
The years best gay speculative fiction 9781590216255. This astounding speculative novel imagines a world in which women suddenly have. The slf is a nonprofit arts foundation, modeled on the national endowment for the arts, but focused specifically on serving the speculative literature science fiction, fantasy, and horror community. Genre writing has been exploring the possible futures of climate change for many years, and 2017s three best novels engage in powerful and. After winning best science fiction in the 2014 goodreads choice awards for his thrilling debut, the martian, he receives the same honor for his second book. The 5 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2017 the. These are the best science fiction and fantasy books of the year.