Best SF & Fantasy of 2000
Discover the best sci-fi & fantasy books of 2000, from Philip Pullman's *The Amber Spyglass* to cutting-edge anthologies like *Dark Matter*. Explore award-winning 2000 fantasy novels and must-read SF picks.
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His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass (Book 3)
by Philip Pullman
Lyra and Will journey to a dank and gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone.
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Dark Matter
by Sheree R. Thomas
This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers to the generations of readers who have not had the chance to explore the scope and diversity among African-American writers.
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Shrine of Stars
by Paul J. Mcauley
The final chapter of the Confluence trilogy finds Yama--the last in the long, proud bloodline that helped creat Confluence--as he begins to demonstrate remarkable powers and is courted by two sides in a violent conflict.
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Gnarl!
by Rudy Rucker
Though he is also a mathematician, computer scientist, and essayist, Rudy Rucker is best known for his ground-breaking science fiction. The companion volume to Seek!, Rucker's selected nonfiction, Gnarl! brings together three dozen of the writer's best science fiction short stories. His first major story collection in 17 years, the volume includes a number of previously unanthologized stories, including tales cowritten with Marc Laidlaw, Paul Di Filippo, and Bruce Sterling. Classics such as "The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka," a timely meditation on the paradoxes of cloning, are side by side with works of pseudomemoir like "The Indian Rope Trick Explained." The Rucker formula - cutting-edge physics, a wild but perversely logical imagination, and a decidedly punk attitude - illuminates this new collection.