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?