SFF180 🚀 Anticipated Science Fiction 2019

[@werolego]

You made my quarantine more bearable, thx a lot

[@thestonecloud667]

I loved The Lost Puzzler and really need to get into the follow up!

[@dashworthy1]

What a phenomenal list!

[@paultheroman6637]

Good sir, Is it possible that there are traces of an Italian heritage in your past? I only ask because of your mastery of the gesticulative arts. Rarely have I witnessed such an impressive array of articulations accompanying an altogether ambitious and aggrandized aggregation of agile allocution amid an apparent ambidextrous acuity approaching an apex of acumen affording ancillary appreciation against your already acceptable address in verbal fashion. Of course I could be entirely wrong. In which case I offer my sincere and abject apologies meaning no offense. Your humble servant...P.

[@SFF180]

I doubt I have mastered gesticulation as well as you have mastered alliteration.

[@paultheroman6637]

@@SFF180 - You flatter me sir and your modesty does you credit. Peace.

[@MaijaReads]

Gideon the Ninth sounds A+, count me excited.

[@AlwaysTheStoryCollector]

"Open up your Goodreads and settle in." I was literally in the proces of just doing that... Finder sounds the most interesting . Great video!

[@deckiedeckie]

Lindsey Graham' aspiring double?

[@brainfromarous9015]

The eighth Expanse novel is on the way, in case you didn’t know.

[@SFF180]

HOLY COW!

[@strangegirl440]

You had me at "Better Call Saul" meets "1984" and on my TBR-list it goes.

[@ONYXPages]

Exciting!!!

[@Amanda-dn4ld]

Between this and the fantasy list, I've got 7 new books I'm excited about! Thank you for these lists!

[@letswriteabookin1year864]

A Boy and His Dog and The End of The World reminds me heaps of 'A Boy and His Dog' film from 1975, set in 2024 ... the setting is also a little suspect.

[@sc1f1fan]

What a fantastic list of titles. I somehow will have to come up with much more reading time in 2019. Especially excited about: Finder, Exhalation, Rule of Capture, This is How You Lose the Time War, The Redemption of Time and The Future of Another Timeline.

[@jamesholder13]

And my wishlist gets even bigger. . .

[@ricktimus73]

The Deep sounds absolutely amazing.

[@brainfragrances]

Lupe Fiasco dropped an amazing rap album this year called Drogas Wave; the first half of the album is about the topic of The Deep, especially the songs Down & WAV

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Two dozen science fiction new releases... this video made me so happy. I am VERY interested in A Memory Called Empire (which I heard about after filming my own Anticipated Releases video). Now The Outside is on my list and I will keep my eye on The Luminous Dead because, you know, science fiction horror. Thanks again for compiling these epic videos. Such a great resource going into the new year.

[@ckurnath]

This is super helpful....I always tend to read fantasy and I keep trying to pick up more sci-fi. Now I have a whole list to check out!

[@KatieLovestoRead]

So many exciting books to add to my already enormous TBR. If I go missing you’ll probably find me crushed under a stack of unread books. Cannot wait for more Ted Chiang, his first collection is easily the best short story collection I’ve ever read. I did get NK Jemisin’s new one for Christmas though so we’ll need to see if it continues to retain that title.

[@mhkpt]

I liked Ted Chiang's, but I preferred Ken Liu's The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, check it out if you haven't already.

[@brainfragrances]

Lupe Fiasco dropped an amazing rap album this year called Drogas Wave; the first half of the album is about the topic of The Deep, especially the songs Down & WAV

[@NipponStiqqyPaint]

Yup

[@stevewestenra1881]

The covers all look great, but I couldn't help but chuckle at what appears to be a new trend of dots drifting off larger collections of dots/letters. ; ) Lots of amazing books!

[@lifesabeach2597]

Arkady Martin/Arkady Darrel, funny, I just finished rereading The Foundation Trilogy, interesting list, I'll be checking some of these out

[@UnicornHunterbooks]

I'm so excited for Gideon the Ninth. Those books all sound amazing.

[@Majesticon]

Stoked on that new Nicky Drayden

[@dashworthy1]

Rivers Soloman! Ted Chiang! Omg! Yay!

[@andiecurlybooks]

I literally bounced up and down when Exhalation by Ted Chiang came up!! I have been waiting so long for a new book from him and had no idea this was coming out!! Thank you so much for the great news!! YAY!!! 🤗

[@GeryNH]

Now THAT's booktube!

[@brainfragrances]

How did you not name Cixin Liu - Supernova Era? It will release in English on October 8th 2019 and I already have it pre-ordered. Def need to add Ted Chiang to my TBR list.

[@SFF180]

Well as I noted, it’s hardly a comprehensive list. Tor did delay Ball Lightning by a full year, so I would consider Supernova Era highly tentative for 2019 at this point. Hope I’m wrong though!

[@brainfragrances]

@@SFF180 I think they did release in 2015-16-17-18 though, so a follow-up in 2019 would make sense. Lets hope so

[@infinittrob9409]

My TBR trembles with the weight of all the titles added from these two videos. Not sure if you would consider this but would you ever do a video in the summer about your end of year anticipated titles? I know I would love to have a few more titles to add from the last quarter/half of 2019. Thank you for all the great work, and all the best into the New Year.

[@SFF180]

I have done that once. Might try it again.

[@josephfernandez8015]

Is there any AI stories out there where the AI is actually benevolent? Hopefully Emily Eternal turns out that way. Also give us more SF involving dogs. This year’s “Voyage of the Dogs” by Greg Eekhout was a good middle grade...

[@SFF180]

I agree, more dogs can only be a boon to SF.

[@brainfragrances]

read The Stories Of Ibis

[@PaulWeymouth]

So many good books. It really feels like a turning point in SF, as all the newer authors, a lot of them that wrote short fiction, and many of them that are now younger or close to the same age I am, are getting more contracts and exposure.

[@kendallpecere7005]

These lists are awesome! Have you ever considered doing ones for the second half of the year in, say, late June? Not that I really NEED a bigger tbr lol, but that way maybe some of the books released later in the year get some love too!

[@kittymachine3798]

These all sound freaking amazing! Sheesh. I'll need to read 300+ books next year if I'm ever going to catch up!

[@echock1989]

I'm less tuned in to sci fi then I am to fantasy, so I rely on you to help me find what's available. Some of this looks very tasty indeed!

[@adambrickley9088]

A Pinsker full novel? Yes please! The Newitz title also sounds fun, and I'm really interested in Redemption of Time and If, Then.

[@Spurs420]

Just based on the character name Fergus Ferguson I'm looking forward to Finder

[@kellyroll8108]

After not finding much in next year's fantasy list (except Pandora's box cause - crazysauce mythology) I am desperate for The Luminous Dead; If Then; and A Boy His Dog At The End Of The World

[@Chris-Huntley]

Not even halfway and I can guarantee I will be picking up A Boy His Dog At The End Of The World and The Outside. Need more own voices in my mental difference. A romance came out from an own voices aspergers author this year and looking forward to reading one from a science fiction author as well. I have aspergers.

[@ReadsBeforePlay1814]

The City in the Middle of the Night, A Memory Called Empire, The Luminous Dead, The Outside (though coming from a reader who would fall under that label, I kind of detest the term ‘own voices’, as to me it’s just another way to divide authors of different experiences), The Deep (Wow. If only it were my birthday and not my brother’s!) and This is How You Lose the Time War (timey wimey novel just in time for MY birthday? You better believe I want in on that!) for me.

[@thenextshenanigantownandth4393]

No offense but these books aren't very original. They're just tropes injected with axiological questions. I'm not saying that sci fi is a dead genre, but so far no one has produced any ideas worth jumping about, at least not in the last 10 years or more. I think the reason why sci fi has become just tropes with social justice in the last 10 years is because of the spread of the internet. It's much harder to tell a good sci fi story about the future when the future looks so mundane. When the future looks like we will be all interconnected into a social computer hive mind. It's actually pretty terrifying, but that seems to be the way we're going.

[@SFF180]

Science fiction is currently in its most creatively fecund period since the New Wave of the late 1960s (where a lot of the fiction that was produced could also easily be described as "tropes with axiological questions"). To say there's been nothing of value produced in a decade is absurd on its face to anyone who's actually kept up. This is the decade that's given us Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy, Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem and its sequels as well as a huge surge in SF writing from China overall, China Miéville's The City & the City and Embassytown, the entire Expanse series, Nnedi Okorafor's Binti trilogy, Alastair Reynolds' Poseidon's Children trilogy, and literally thousands more. Stories bursting with fresh points of view and propulsive talespinning. Thing is, you gave yourself away with phrases "tropes with social justice" and "social computer hive mind." Perhaps you don't care for the fact that the genre's current points of view aren't the same ones that once dominated older SF: western, white and male. Maybe the future seems both mundane and terrifying because you no longer see yourself centered in it.

[@thenextshenanigantownandth4393]

@@SFF180 Also I'm in fact much younger than you and I can't stand the sci fi being wrote today. It's not on the same level as the masters of sci fi from the past. Who just so happen to be mostly white males. And it's interesting that you mention the new wave because I actually think sci fi now has regressed back into more of a pulp form that the new wave sought to shake off. So in reality sci fi now is just pulp with a different coat of paint.