Recombination

[ewx]

Recombination was fun. It's been a while since I'd been to a con.

One of the things it made clear was that I've not been fully keeping up with really good SF and fantasy for some time now. Rather than attempt to remember all things that were mentioned over the weekend, would anyone care to recommend the highlights of the last decade of SF/F writing that they think I might have missed?

(Extruded fantasy product need not be mentioned l-)

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Mm, as a general point I was hoping for specific and detailed recommendations, rather than a bunch of author names...

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

That would have been a waste of effort if you already knew of the author/book, hence my question.
I'll give you synopses if you want, but titles:
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
Liz Williams, Darkland (general consensus is that if you like Iain M Banks, you'll like her)
Ian McDonald, River of Gods...

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Ooh, definitely Perdido Street Station.

[lnr]

I told him that when I first read it, but my copy has since moved out making it harder to borrow :-)