Best of the Year

Margo Lanagan's Black Juice is on the Horn Book's Fan Fare 2005 list. Congratulations Margo!


And while we are on the subject, the following are my Best Children's Sf of the year, should you be looking for presents to seduce the young,


Ann Halam Siberia London Orion 2005
Philip Reeve Infernal Devices London Scholastic 2005
L J Addlington The Diary of Pelly-D London Hodder 2005
Ben Jeapes New world Order London David Fickling Books 2005
Susan Price Odin's Voice London Simon & Schuster 2005

And from 2004 (because children's books seem to come out just before Christmas)

Rhiannon Lassiter Outland Oxford OUP 2004
Jan Mark Useful Idiots London David Fickling Books 2004
Oisin McGann The Harvest Tide Project Dublin O'Brien Press 2004
Kate Thompson Origins London Red Fox 2004
Conor Costik Epic Dublin O'Brien Press 2004