by Mark Twimbly

Some people are fond of saying that Science Fiction is dying, drowning under the tidal waves of Twilight and Urban Fantasy. But down under the mainstream are some of the best, most challenging works ever written in the genre, and far from being classics dug up from the past, they have all been written in the last few years.

1. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

2. The City & The City by China Mieville

3. Finch by Jeff Vandermeer

4. Light by M. John Harrison

5. Wake by Robert J. Sawyer

6. Green by Jay Lake

7. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

8. He Walked Among Us by Norman Spinrad

9. Anathem by Neal Stephenson

10. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemesin