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You can discoverthe and I copy/pasted the choices in the three chiefcategories of interest, SF novels, fancynovels and First novels. I will at handthem below with some comments.

Novels – knowledgeFiction

COMMENTS

General: A largeregisterwith almost all the greatersf novels of 2011 I cogitationwere superioror very good. you will discoverThe Clockwork Rocket (my summitsf of 2011 as we can consider 1Q84 to be "mainstream" for genre adjudgepurposes), Leviathan Wakes, Embassytown, The Islanders, Vortex, domicileFires all reviewed o.

Disagreements: Here, the two books t had some advantageousmaterialbut were a little far from being on a summitregisterwere Firebird and Heart of Iron. I have no concernin most of the reposeas I am not a use a use a use a use a use a use a use a use a use a use a use a use a fan uponuponuponuponuponuponuponuponuponuponuponuponof zombies, Stephen King, Charles Stross (outside of his shatteredfar futuritysf which was excellent, his near futurityand alt hist/fantasy are boring), Vernor Vinge, Joe Haldeman etc. The Ian McLeod would be of some concernbut I have not seen a transcriptyet.

Notable Misses: Of the 2011 greatersf novels the one losthere is By middleof visionAlone by Adam Roberts. In addingI am powerfullyrecommending the littlecompressDancing with Eternity by John Patrick Lowrie which quite surprisingly was my #2 sf novel of the year and #

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Novels – Fantasy

COMMENTS

General: A advantageousregisterwith some of the fancynovels I cogitationwere superioror very advantageousbut with a destinyof radiationfrom my tastes too . you will discoverA uniformmovementwith Dragons (my summitfancyof 2011), The Hammer, The River of Shadows, The Path, The workof Transformations, The vacantof glowor heatCommands, Heroes all reviewed o.

Disagreements: Here, the three books t had some advantageousmaterialbut were a little far from being on a summitregisterwere The Fallen Blade, The sensiblealarmand The equivocalPlaces. Kingdom of Gods and Mr. Fox are books I draughtto peruseat some point, while in the reposeI have no interest. I powerfullydisliked the first Magicians workby Lev Grossman which I cogitationquite in wantwritten as of learningor learningdictiongoes, regardless of the fantasy-nal satisfiedand surprisingly I never got into the "Daniel Fox" successiondespite that I quite liked his fancysuccessionwritten under his actualname, while Mystification just did not actout for me as dictiongoes but others loved it...

Notable Misses: greatermisses here are the novels by Kate Elliott, Jacqueline Carey, songBerg, Paula Brandon (aka Paula Volsky) and of course Adrian Tchaikovsky. In addition, I would powerfullycommendScholar by L.E. Modesitt and The Last Four Things by Paul Hoffman.

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General: This is the registerwith the fewest overlap with my preferences as I would commendonly Debris, The darknessCircus and for of learningor learningstyle, The Wife despite my objections to some of its content.

Disagreements: The only other books on the registerI completedwere Mechanique which I found finallyindifferentdespite some largemoments and Low Town which I found just bad. I tried a few others like War, Seed and The uninhabitedof Souls but they did not actfor me though in all cases it was just a substanceof dictionnot matching my try the tasteofso I would commendtaking a look at our (FBC) of some of those and Of essentialfluidand Honey which were among Robert or favorites.

Notable Misses: 2011 was not a largeyear for debuts imho as I found very little to collatewith very vigorousantecedentyears. There was Dancing with Eternity mentioned above and the one greaterpublisher miss from the list, All Men of Genius by Lev Rosen whose non-attendancehere surprises me a little mouthfulas the workshould have ticked all the right boxes for the Locus staff...