Mostly, this novel made me miss the wonderful Kage Baker and her Company novels, with their secret society of time traveling cyborgs.Īs a long time fan of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books, I think I can safely say that Ian MacDonald’s Luna books are a worthy inheritor of the kind of epic political science fiction that Kim Stanley Robinson is celebrated for. While there were lots of things that were far from perfect about this time travel novel (that is actually not in fact a time travel novel, but a novel about the history of science, magic and the systemic failures of bureaucracy), there was an absolutely sublime Viking raid on Walmart that made the hard slog totally worth it. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.Oby Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland Fred Lothian’s cramped retirement village unit and his inability to address significant failure of character in his own life sucked me in, and I didn’t come up for air until I was finished.

One of the few times in living memory that I have read an entire novel in less than 24 hours. Cloud Atlas (published in the United States as Cloud Atlas: A Novel) is a 2004 novel, the third book by British author David Mitchell. It also contains a gorgeous easter egg for any fans of A. It was contemporary in tone, really brought the Austen family to life, and provided wonderful insight into the social history of Regency England. Best Reads: January, February, March 2021. FlynnĮven though I am not a massive Jane Austen fan, I am a huge Connie Willis fan, and this time travel novel was similar in some ways to Connie Willis’s Oxford novels. 2017 best reads 2016 Best Reads 2015 Best Reads 2014 Best Reads Blog Posts Poems Short Stories Letters To My Dead Film Reviews Mike Finns Fiction Book Reviews and Short Stories. From hysterically curmudgeonly essays to raw novels about love and loss, here are our picks. This list was provided by our historical fiction reviewer click here to see the books that won our official She Reads Awards for the Best Historical Fiction Books of 2020. I would highly recommend the first two to almost anyone, while the second two are possibly more niche reads that will be loved by many readers of science fiction. While I read and enjoyed a plethora of historical fiction books, the following are my favorites for the title of best historical fiction books of 2020. I only ended up reading four new novels this year, so these are (by default) my best fiction from 2017.

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