The 12 Best Books I've Read This Year, So Far (Science Fiction & Literary Fiction)

it's one of the best books I've ever read it moved me to my core I've never empathized with a character or I haven't in a very long time as much as I empathized with Austin the protagonist

it's this weird narrative technique that Mossberg uses where the character disassociates with his own ego so it's told in both first and third person perspective which is really bizarre but it works wonderfully well

burning Chrome by William Gibson is superb I don't like it quite as much as Neuromancer

it's a phenomenal bit of psychological horror very low on Gore pretty much no blood and guts but it just gets under your skin and it creeps around skulks around in your brain

it's a very short novel but despite its length it covers a ton of ground and it drops you right into the action and it's so vividly realized the characters are all wonderful one of the best endings of any novel that I've read in science fiction as well

it took me a minute to acclimate to it and get used to it but by the end I was completely blown away I think this is one of the finest pieces of Science Fiction that I've read

Neuromancer is one of my favorite books of all time

there are a couple of really be beautiful pieces of writing in other days otherwise and a couple of pretty horrifying bits of speculation and there's a little bit of detective work in almost police procedural stuff in there that wasn't my favorite part but it's certainly not bad

I think the other the last book that I gave a 10 out of 10 to was probably roadside picnic by Mr gatsky's

if you go back and reread it I think it's more sophisticated more beautiful and more profound than just about any other science fiction that I've read from around that period

but I loved it Mishima is probably top three in terms of the incredible beauty and power of the writing

the dying Earth which is still my favorite Jackman's book

I didn't actually enjoy reading it all that much but at the end when I had the bigger picture and I can't give you the bigger picture for wanta spoilers I appreciated it much more and I was very happy that I had read it

I found the characters and I guess the sociological elements of it extremely compelling and sophisticated