Although titles such as “Dune”, “Ring world”, “Neuromancer”, “I, robot”, “Appointment with Rama”, “Brave new world,” Hyperion “,” The time machine “or” Do androids dream of electric sheep? ” are among our favorite science fiction books, you may want to read and learn new stories with which to surprise you in this fantastic literary world that is science fiction. This is our selection for this year:
Lee Fonda’s Jade City
With an addictive and addictive narrative, this first installment of the Saga of the green bones of the Canadian-American science fiction writer Lee Fonda, won the World Fantasy Award for best novel in 2018 and was a finalist for the Nebula and Locus awards. The Jade War is its continuation. If you like sagas about family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade … this is your trilogy. Jade’s Legacy, the latest novel in the series, will be published in 2021.
Ghosts of the New by Ray Bradbury
Although it was originally published in 1969, we cannot go through this selection without some classic that we want to remember. You will find 18 science fiction stories in this volume by the American writer Ray Bradbury, known worldwide for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.
Subsolar by Emilio Bueso
Belonging to the official section of the 2020 Guillermo de Baskerville Awards, this work by the Gigamesh publishing house written by the Spanish writer Emilio Bueso is the third novel in the saga “Los ojos bizcos del sol”. The trilogy was born with Transcrepuscular and continued with Antisolar. This book, with many peculiar nuances that show the bravery and audacity of the author, is illustrated by Alejandro Terán.
Artificial Condition: The Matabot Diaries by Martha Wells
This novel was the winner of the Hugo and Locus awards. This is the second part of The Matabot Diaries after Critical Systems, where artificial intelligence continues to provide great charisma in these lyrics. Martha Wells is an American author whose works have been translated into eight languages.
The city that was born great and other stories by NK Jemisin
The American author of the “Fragmented Earth Trilogy”, NK Jemisin, brings us a collection of stories that show her way of working very well. His introduction to writing is the best of the presentations in this collection.
Andy Weir’s Hail Mary Project
The author of the well-known best-selling novel “The Martian” releases a new science fiction novel this year: Hail Mary Project. Here, an astronaut will be the protagonist again: he will have to save the Earth from the threat of a bacterium of extraterrestrial origin. Will it succeed?
Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
This science fiction novel released in 2020 comes from the hand of the young American writer Christopher Paolini, famous for his book series “The Legacy”. A space opera packed with space adventures on almost 900 pages.
The Wrath of Tiamat by James SA Corey
This installment of the best-selling saga, awarded the Hugo 2020 Award for the best science fiction saga and on which the television series The Expanse is based, is a literary and audiovisual gold mine. It is distinguished by its scientific fidelity within fiction and its characters and stories transport us to a varied and confronted space civilization. The last book in the saga written by authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (James SA Corey is his pseudonym) Leviathan Falls, will be released in late 2021. We are looking forward to that moment.
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Writer Marge Piercy shows us a world in which the future is better than the present. Compared to Ursula K. Le Guin, Piercy also stands out as an activist and defender of feminist ideals, a theme that is fully overturned in this science fiction novel.
Ted Chiang Exhale
American author Ted Chiang writes in “Exhalation” about the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Hailed as the last genius of science fiction, this American of Chinese descent already has four Hugo Awards and four Nebula Awards, among others.
