Reactor polls 50 authors about their favourite SFFH books

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It’s a great time to read speculative fiction.

We asked over 50 authors about the most iconic SFF books of this century. Here's what they had to say.https://t.co/Gc9tsAPHUo
- Reactor (formerly Tor.com) (@reactormag) October 30, 2024

• Most mentioned book was The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. Others dubbed "Most iconic" include The Hunger Games,

Comments

[distant_lines]

OMG I'm so down the election rabbit hole at this point that I saw the word polls and it took me far too long to realize this wasn't an election post.

I read The Fifth Season and didn't really love it, and now it's been so long since I read it that I don't know if I can even read the rest of the series. I want to read it all just to understand why it's so popular even if I still never really love it. I should find some kind of video or something to watch to get me back up to speed for me to read the other 2 at some point.

[anagramofbrat]

I love NK Jemisen but the fifth season didn't grab me either. I like her Inheritance trilogy and the Cities duology way better.

[distant_lines]

Maybe I'll consider that series a wash and try her other ones. I try to always finish a book or series that I start, but I'm getting to the point where I'm not even able to read the books I really want to, so I should definitely stop spending any time reading a book I don't love.

[helyanwe89]

I didn't love The Fifth Season but I did read the whole trilogy.

The Ten Thousand Kingdoms I had a hard time getting into & the title is very misleading imo.

[prlsb4swiine]

fifth season was way better than her other Trilogy for me, but it did take a bit to get into.

[broken_witch]

Read the whole thing and it just didn't do it for me. There was some interesting character stuff but the basic premise and the style didn't click for me.