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Yet More Best-of-the-Year Lists

I thought, given that so many folks got their Year-End lists out well before the year actually ended, that the flow of those lists had basically ended. (I did a small catch-up post earlier this week, to gather what I thought would be the end of them.)

Well, I was wrong -- there's more. More! MORE!

Strange Horizons reviews the entire year, though the eyes of their many reviewers. (Too many books mentioned to list even a fraction of them.)

Barnes & Noble picks a list of Top 10 Novels of 2006 (in the SF category) -- leading off is David Louis Edelman's Infoquake, and also on the list are John Scalzi's The Android's Dream and books by Rudy Rucker, Sean Williams, David Wellington, and others.

Bookgasm picks a list of <strikethrough>five</strikethrough> six books -- they say it's five, but they sneak two in under one number -- with Ian McDonald's River of Gods in the #1 slot and novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, John Scalzi (The Android's Dream), Tobias S. Buckell (Crystal Rain), David Louis Edelman, and Joel Shepherd (Crossover) filling out the list.

And Darren "Ariel" Turpin has also brought forth a list of his favorite books from 2006, including (since he's in the UK) a number of things that haven't been published here yet, but also including The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch and Three Days to Never by Tim Powers.

And, to end, Niall Harrison doesn't provide a list of the best books he read last year, but he does have a long post about what he read -- with charts and graphs, no less! -- which deserves to be mentioned.

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Sorry, forgot to include personal info first time.

I liked Robert J. Sawyer's comment about the various summaries of news events in 2006:

Hey, all you newsmagazines and other media outlets that did their "2006-in-review" news coverage earlier this month:
http://sfwriter.com/2006/12/writing-about-future.html
Don't you think that the execution of Saddam Hussein was one of the top news stories of 2006? Yeah, well, people looking back at your coverage would never know it. A polite request: leave writing about the future to us science-fiction writers. Thanks.

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