• By Charlie Jane Anders
    Nov 10, 2008 12:30 PM 2,631
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    Liberation Is A Better Novel Than Anathem, Says Amazon

    The best science fiction novel of 2008 was Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation, according to Amazon.com's new top 10 list, compiled by io9 contributor Jeff VanderMeer. The story of a gang of super-criminals reuniting to save a fallen America that's reinstated human slavery beat out Neal Stephenson's Anathem (which came in at number five), Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods (number eight) and Iain M. Banks' Matter (number nine). But Amazon.com's customers chose Stephenie Meyers' symbiont love story The Host as the best book of the year. (Click on each book title to read our own review.) [Omnivoracious]


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