The Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List

It's always good to get a pre-researched reading list, makes one's hyperconnected life a little more directed. Locus magazine published a recommended reading list from 2005 science fiction works in their February 2006 issue, selected by Locus editors and reviewers, as well as authors

Some great stuff, too much to really read or list here, but a few standouts:

• Transcendent, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Del Rey)
• Shadow of the Giant, Orson Scott Card (Tor; Orbit)
• The Carpet Makers, Andreas Eschbach (Tor)
• Old Twentieth, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber Faber UK; Knopf)
• Fifty Degrees Below, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins UK; Bantam Spectra)
• Living Next Door to the God of Love, Justina Robson (Macmillan UK; Bantam Spectra 2006)
• The Rosetta Codex, Richard Paul Russo (Ace; Orbit)
• Accelerando, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit)
• Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler (Seven Stories)
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
• Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Review)
• Thud!, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
• Old Man’s War, John Scalzi (Tor)
• Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, Frederic Jameson (Verso)
• Audrey Niffenegger, The Three Incestuous Sisters (Abrams; Cape)

If one had time enough...