2023 YTD Recommended SF

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Classic

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Excellent

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Recommended Reading

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Novels

Rating: 5 out of 5.
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky [Orbit, January 2023]

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
Poor Man’s Sky by Wil McCarthy [Baen, January 2023]

Rating: 4 out of 5.
The Scarab Mission by James L. Cambias [Baen, January 2023]

Novellas

Rating: 5 out of 5.
None

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
“The Tinker and the Timestream” by Carolyn Ives Gilman [Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2023]

Rating: 4 out of 5.
The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown [Tor Nightfire; April 4, 2023]
“Lemuria 7 is Missing” by Allen M. Steele [Asimov’s Science Fiction, May/June 2023]
“Poison” by Frank Wu & Jay Werkheiser [Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May/June 2023]

Novelettes

Rating: 5 out of 5.
None

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
“Even If Such Ways are Bad” by Rich Larson [tor.com, February 8, 2023]
“The House on Infinity Street” by Allen M. Steele [Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2023]
“Time: Marked and Mended” by Carrie Vaughn [tor.com, January 11, 2023]

Rating: 4 out of 5.
“Games Without Frontiers” by Andy Dudak [Asimov’s Science Fiction, May/June 2023]
“The Bends”, Rajan Khanna [Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February 2023]
“The Nameless Dead” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2023]

Short Stories

Rating: 5 out of 5.
None

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Rating: 4 out of 5.
“The Five Stages” by Aubry Kae Anderson [Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2023]
“Citizen Science” by Naomi Kanakia [Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2023]
“Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer [Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 200, May 2023]
“Counting Casualties” by Yoon Ha Lee [tor.com, April 26, 2023]