When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. But while they ply their risky trade with integrity, not everyone is so scrupulous.Īs Molly Templeton writes, “Space! Pirate! Sisters! Is this a movie yet? I want to read it and watch it.”Īlso on the Tor.com list is A Closed and Common Orbit (Harper Voyager, March 14, 2017), the second novel by Becky Chambers, and the sequel to her popular space opera The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. There’s lots on their list that appeals to me - like Revenger by Alastair Reynolds, coming in paperback from Orbit on February 28, 2017.Ĭaptain Rackamore and his crew’s business is to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds which have been hidden away, booby-trapped, surrounded by layers of protection – and to crack them open for the ancient relics and barely-remembered technologies inside. It includes new novels by Nnedi Okorafor, Mur Lafferty, George Saunders, Kameron Hurley, Catherynne M. Well, if it’s our lot in life to read all these lists and dutifully report the best to you here, we shall carry our burden stoically.Īs usual, Tor.com is first out of the gate, with a generous survey of a dozen SF and fantasy titles coming in 2017 that they want to read right now.

No sooner do we wrap up all the 2016 Best of the Year lists than we’re deluged with 2017 Best Upcoming Books lists.

Tor fantasy books list