Locus Magazine’s Recommended First Novels
Locus Online: Locus Magazine’s Recommended Reading: 2006
This recommended reading list, published in Locus Magazine’s February 2007 issue, is a consensus by Locus editors and reviewers…
The section I headed straight for was:
First novels:
* The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz; Pyr)
* A Shadow in Summer, Daniel Abraham (Tor)
* The Patron Saint of Plagues, Barth Anderson (Bantam Spectra)
* Crystal Rain, Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)
* Scar Night, Alan Campbell (Tor UK; Bantam Spectra)
* The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Gordon Dahlquist (Bantam; Viking UK)
* The Stolen Child, Keith Donohue (Cape; Doubleday)
* The Green Glass Sea, Ellen Klages (Viking)
* The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
* Temeraire: His Majesty’s Dragon / Throne of Jade / Black Powder War (Del Rey; Voyager), as Temeraire: In the Service of the King (SFBC)
* The Burning Girl, Holly Phillips (Prime Books)
* Summer of the Apocalypse, James Van Pelt (Fairwood Press)
Looks like a good list to check out.
