[ExI] The best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2020

[William Flynn Wallace]

I have read all Cixin Liu's books and enjoyed them.  The latest, Supernova
Era I did not.  Cannot recommend it at all.  Based on the idea that Earth
is left with nothing but 13 year olds and under to run the planet.  Highly
predictable and often tedious.   bill w

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 6:14 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> "2020 was quite the year for science fiction, but it wasn’t all about
> escaping to other worlds. It’s easy to imagine flights of fancy in a
> spaceship to be a reprieve to reality, but science fiction and fantasy
> literature is the product of people with real concerns about the real
> world, and accordingly, they write about the challenges that we see in
> the world around us
> <https://www.polygon.com/21515800/new-science-fiction-futures>. Over the
> last 12 months, I’ve been thinking about the value of speculative
> literature in a time like this. There’s a meme going around that reading is
> a collective hallucination that we get by staring at bits of a dead tree.
> That’s certainly accurate, but I like to think of science fiction as a sort
> of cheat guide or rough map of directions.
>
> This year’s crop of books are ones that have a thumb on the pulse of
> everything that’s been going on around us. But they’re not screeds
> lecturing readers about the evils of the world — they’re thoughtful,
> interesting stories with characters that you root for, fighting against
> huge challenges. They’re fighting against oppression, wealth inequality,
> and racism. The characters are all trying to survive, to build new worlds,
> or save their friends and family from harm. Collectively, they’re the
> stories that show us the way out of a dismal world and into a slightly
> better one, one page at a time."
> I intend to read Vagabonds, Network Effect, and The Ministry For The
> Future...
>
> https://www.polygon.com/22220762/best-books-2020-sci-fi-fantasy
> <https://www.polygon.com/22220762/best-books-2020-sci-fi-fantasy>
>
> John
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