Annual roundup of the best of the year, in one page.

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more My annual recs roundup, for the supporters! Thanks for being a reader, it means a lot. TITAA Best of 2024: Books, TV, Games Annual roundup of the best of the year, in one page. Lynn Cherny Dec 28 ∙ Preview   READ IN APP   Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death (because of Constellation) No rest for my end of the year newsletters! Here’s my annual roundup for the supporters, in case you want the Big List to refer to. These are either the things that I gave 5 stars to (or the mental equivalent), or have kept thinking about. I’ll keep the quotes and style comments for the monthly recs post. TOC (links on the web page): Books (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery/Thriller) TV Games (plus with VR) This newsletter lives on due to my supporters. Consider upgrading? Upgrade to paid Books I sprinkled a few stars on my top favs of the year. With a few exceptions, I struggled to find really outstanding SF reads this year (I need to work on that, it’s my fav genre). There was a lot of great fantasy, though, and a couple mystery/thrillers made the cut. Science Fiction Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock, Maud Woolf (sf). 13th clone of actress and model Lulabelle Rock, who has decided to have her kill the other clones in order to deflect expected bad press for her upcoming film of Medea. Really amusing. Engines of God, Jack McDevitt (sf). Exciting exploration on several different planets, trying to figure out if strange relics are related. If you like archaeology in space (I do), he’s super. The Circumference of the World, by Lavie Tidhar (sf). A cryptic nested koan of a book about a magic book by a maybe crazy golden-era sf writer, who also started a cult. It’s slight, but I like these kinds of puzzley hyperstition plots. (See also Alan Wake 2 in games.) ⭐️ Aurora Rising [the whole series but especially book 1], Alastair Reynolds (sf). Prefect Dreyfus book 1, which is a tour de force of space opera police procedural with some fantastically creepy “alpha” AI characters, plus clever “betas,” which are recordings of dead people’s personalities... Subscribe to Things I Think Are Awesome to unlock the rest. Become a paying subscriber of Things I Think Are Awesome to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. Upgrade to paid A subscription gets you: Mid-month full post with news links, plus a weirdness & esoterica section, for the very latest breaking creative tech news. End of the month full post, plus a separate detailed post on the books/tv/games recs. Great karma and my gratitude (because I take off work to do this).   Like Comment Restack   © 2024 Lynn Cherny 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe