Jane Yolen

The Pit Dragon Trilogy

Jane Yolen's trilogy about a young man and his quest to raise a dragon. This may have been a juvenile adventure story, but it was good fun and I enjoyed myself thoroughly.

Piers Anthony

The Continuing Xanth Saga

The fourth, fifth and sixth books in the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. Good solid fun, and by the end of the sixth book you can start to feel Xanth becoming a parofy of itself. However, there was still plenty of meat on the bones early in the series.

A. E. van Vogt

The Voyage of the Space Beagle

I read a lot of golden age stuff this past year, and although a lot of the science of the early genre is funny now, I've always enjoyed fantastic fiction for the stories, and the Space Beagle was pretty entertaining.

Servants of the Ark

There are times when I like a good yarn about good and evil. Servants of the Ark took me a while to get at, but once I got going it was a solid series that had enough strange original twists to keep it fresh. Not a well known series, but one worth checking out in my opinion.

Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake

This is one my wife bought. but has yet to get around to reading. So I figured I'd spin it first. I haven't read much of Atwood's stuff, but she's been around a while and is well respected. There's a lot to like here, and she tells a hell of a story. One does get a little tired of post apocalyptic tales after a while, but she has a deft touch, and there's just enough truth to the telling to make this seem hauntingly probable.

Greg Bear

Songs of Earth and Power

Number Five. Greg Bear's haunting story about the nature of reality. Powerful stuff.

Robert R. McCammon

Swan Song

I happened to really like this one a lot. Yeah, it gets a lot of grief as a knock off on King's The Stand, but there are a lot of end of the world stories out there, and this one was pretty bloody entertaining.

John Gordon Davis

Taller than Trees

For me this was one of those surprises that caught me totally off guard. Not your typical adventure story.

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Valentine Davies

Miracle on 34th Street

Yup, the venerable classic. First time I'd read it, and boy howdy it is a magical tale that will make you ashamed you ever doubted Santa's existence.

Ilium

There's a lot to like with Dan Simmon's Ilium. It's big, bad and immemsely entertaining. It's also the first book in a series which sucks. Oh well, I'll have to spring for the next one before I forget what happened. Cool stuff here kids!