Locus’ 2023 recommended reading lists

NOVELS – SCIENCE FICTION

• Conquest, Nina Allan (Riverrun)
• The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, Samit Basu (Tordotcom)
• Creation Node, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
• Bridge, Lauren Beukes (Mulholland; Michael Joseph UK)
• Prophet, Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald (Grove; Jonathan Cape)
• A Stranger in the Citadel, Tobias S. Buckell (Tachyon)
• Infinity Gate, M.R. Carey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• A Fire Born of Exile, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JAB Books)
• Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
• Scale, Greg Egan (self-published)
• Furious Heaven, Kate Elliott (Ad Astra; Tor)
• Hospital, Han Song (Amazon Crossing)
• Titanium Noir, Nick Harkaway (Knopf; Corsair UK)
• Biography of X, Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus, Giroux; Granta UK)
• Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Blue, Beautiful World, Karen Lord (Del Rey; Gollancz)
• In Ascension, Martin MacInnes (Atlantic UK; Black Cat 2/24)
• The Deluge, Stephen Markley (Simon & Schuster)
• Hopeland, Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Tor)
• The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Descendant Machine, Gareth L. Powell (Titan UK)
• Airside, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
• Him, Geoff Ryman (Angry Robot UK)
• Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• Cahokia Jazz, Francis Spufford (Faber & Faber; Scribner 2/24)
• Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK)
• The Circumference of the World, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon; PS)
• Where Peace Is Lost, Valerie Valdes (Harper Voyager US)
• System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis (Del Rey)

from Locus magazines’ 2023 recommended reading list — see the article for fantasy novels, novellas and short fiction.