My favorite “book” this year was Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee Omnibus which is a collection of a couple of his books. The world building, physics, vast timelines and very human characters really did it for me. I still love Ian Bank’s Culture Series more but the Xeelee Sequence has been a lot of fun, highly recommend (if you’re into sci-fi).

Honorable mention goes to Charles Stross, I finally read his Accelerando and while it didn’t trip my trigger as much I felt like it really captured something of our current zeitgeist and had a lot of great moments that will stick in my head for a while.