Looking Forward to 2015

Lots of people are posting lists of books they are looking forward to in 2015. I thought I’d have a go too. Here are some planned new releases that I want to read.

  • The Galaxy Game, Karen Lord (Jo Fletcher)
  • Macaque Attack!, Gareth L. Powell (Solaris)
  • Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
  • Something Coming Through, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
  • Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (PM Press)
  • The Ship, Antonia Honeywell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
  • Starborn, Lucy Hounsom (Tor UK)
  • Company Town, Madeleine Ashby (Angry Robot)
  • The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
  • Wake, Elizabeth Knox (Constable & Robinson/Corsair) *
  • The Glorious Angels, Justina Robson (Gollancz)
  • Persona, Genevieve Valentine (Saga)
  • The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit)
  • The Book of Phoenix, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
  • Collected Fiction, Hannu Rajaniemi (Tachyon)
  • The Year’s Illustrious Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 1, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct)
  • The Dark Forest, Liu Cixin (Tor)
  • Dark Orbit, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Tor)
  • The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
  • Radiance, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor)
  • The House of Shattered Wings, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
  • Falling in Love with Hominids, Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon)
  • No Other Darkness, Sarah Hilary (Penguin)
  • Luna Volume One, Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
  • Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho (Tor UK)
  • Queers Destroy Science Fiction, Seannan McGuire (Lightspeed)
  • Spark and Carousel, Joanne Hall (Kristell Ink)

* Actually I read this when it came out in New Zealand at the end of 2013. It is brilliant, though deeply disturbing. Highly recommended.

Obviously that’s not a complete list. Not every publisher submits their forthcoming books to Locus, and I haven’t spent a lot of time researching the list. However, the point remains: diversity, it is not hard, why aren’t you doing it?