Publishers Weekly had put together a list of the best books of the year. We’ve listed the science fiction/fantasy/horror titles here. You can read the entire list, including fiction, mystery, mass market, comics, nonfiction, poetry, lifestyle, and more here: Best Books of The Year.

The Living Dead
Edited by John Joseph Adams
(Night Shade)
This superb reprint anthology runs the gamut of zombie stories, with entries by a plethora of renowned and outstanding authors from all sides of the genre.

Pump Six and Other Stories
Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
Bacigalupi’s extraordinary debut collection of futuristic tales, most of which focus on the very personal consequences of environmental disaster, delivers astute social commentary in poignant, revelatory prose.

Ink and Steel
Elizabeth Bear (Roc)
The secret war between fae and the Elizabethan court comes to light in this dramatic tale of espionage, seduction and the literal magic of poetry and plays.

City at the End of Time
Greg Bear (Del Rey)
Bear returns triumphantly to large-scale science fiction with this complex, difficult tale of Seattle drifters sent on a mission to preserve the universe’s last vestiges of consciousness.

Fallen
Tim Lebbon (Bantam Spectra)
Lebbon blends wonder and nightmare in this vividly memorable novel of aging voyagers whose quest for glory takes a dark turn when they encounter ancient and terrifying gods.

Filter House
Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct)
Shawl’s exquisitely rendered debut collection weaves threads of folklore, religion, family and the search for a cohesive self through a panorama of race, magic and the body.

Half a Crown
Jo Walton (Tor)
Walton wraps up her Small Change trilogy with a powerful tale of an alternate 1960 in which a fascist Britain, attempting to emulate Nazi Europe, finally pushes its citizens too far.

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