Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Essential Reading List (2016) (51 books)

Recommendations from Niall Harrison, Nisi Shawl, Jaymee Goh, Indra Das, Anil Menon & Others
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1	The Arrival by Shaun Tan 4.35 avg rating — 60,077 ratings score: 289, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi 3.83 avg rating — 3,422 ratings score: 283, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 4.25 avg rating — 126,089 ratings score: 273, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami 4.11 avg rating — 153,000 ratings score: 266, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Uncanny Magazine Issue 2: January/February 2015 by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.84 avg rating — 1,019 ratings score: 221, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 2,056 ratings score: 196, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta 3.26 avg rating — 1,324 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo 3.43 avg rating — 607 ratings score: 190, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee 4.03 avg rating — 951 ratings score: 188, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 135,642 ratings score: 186, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Cat Country: A Satirical Novel of China in the 1930's by Lao She 3.63 avg rating — 1,409 ratings score: 182, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Distances by Vandana Singh 3.97 avg rating — 59 ratings score: 180, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The City of Devi (The Hindu Gods, #3) by Manil Suri 3.28 avg rating — 1,057 ratings score: 178, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The King's Last Song by Geoff Ryman 3.75 avg rating — 445 ratings score: 172, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Devourers by Indra Das 3.75 avg rating — 4,798 ratings score: 170, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Of Tales and Enigmas by Minsoo Kang (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 168, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 598 ratings score: 164, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The SEA Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia by Nghi Vo (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 369 ratings score: 161, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology by Paolo Chikiamco (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 471 ratings score: 159, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Cyberpunk: Malaysia by Zen Cho (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.39 avg rating — 168 ratings score: 157, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 859,405 ratings score: 157, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 497,589 ratings score: 155, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 3.97 avg rating — 133,217 ratings score: 154, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Things We Found During the Autopsy by Kuzhali Manickavel 3.93 avg rating — 131 ratings score: 152, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Z. Hossain (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 650 ratings score: 150, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Half of What I Say by Anil Menon 3.29 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 145, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories by Vandana Singh 3.90 avg rating — 290 ratings score: 143, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India by A.K. Ramanujan 3.75 avg rating — 72 ratings score: 141, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Tale of the Old Fisherman: Contemporary Urdu Short Stories by Muhammad Umar Memon (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 139, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani 3.86 avg rating — 468 ratings score: 137, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Inspector Matadeen on the Moon by Harishankar Parsai 4.35 avg rating — 49 ratings score: 134, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh 3.49 avg rating — 7,136 ratings score: 128, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 122,577 ratings score: 127, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Last Jet-Engine Laugh by Ruchir Joshi 3.10 avg rating — 82 ratings score: 126, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	River of Gods (India 2047, #1) by Ian McDonald 3.91 avg rating — 6,200 ratings score: 124, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	THE VIRGIN FISH OF BABUGHAT by Bhattacharya Lokenath Bhattacharya 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 122, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 38,821 ratings score: 119, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Paradise Tales: and Other Stories by Geoff Ryman 3.49 avg rating — 85 ratings score: 117, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang 3.91 avg rating — 7,473 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Zero and Other Fictions by Huang Fan and translated from by Huang Fan 3.26 avg rating — 42 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Zero and Other Fictions by Huang Fan 3.26 avg rating — 42 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Mushishi, Vol. 1 by Yuki Urushibara 4.30 avg rating — 7,689 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Hopeful Monsters by Hiromi Goto 3.62 avg rating — 161 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Scale-Bright by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 602 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Turbulence by Samit Basu (Goodreads Author) 3.48 avg rating — 1,310 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Resistance by Samit Basu (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 315 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Turbulence + Resistance by Samit Basu (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Ela by Sampurna Chattarji 3.83 avg rating — 46 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	More than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India by David Dean Shulman 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) by Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 221,421 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) by Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 173,205 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Feb 03, 2017 09:23PM

It's not a bad idea to capture the list in a comment

Niall Harrison (@niallharrison), Editor-In Chief for Strange Horizons:

Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho (collection) (Website)
Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta (collection)
Zero by Huang Fan (novella)
UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo (novel)
Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee (collection) (Website)
Yukimi Ogawa’s short stories (uncollected) (Online)
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (novel)
The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi (novel)
Cat Country by Lao She (novel)
Distances by Vandana Singh (novella)
City of Devi by Manil Suri (novel)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (graphic novel)
Mu Shi Shi by Yuki Urushibara (manga)

Nisi Shawl (@NisiShawl), award-winning author, and co-editor of Stories for Chip:

The Life Cycle of Software Products, and Stories of Your Life, both by the incredible Ted Chiang
All the short stories of Henry Lien (uncollected) (Website)
The King’s Last Song by Geoff Ryman (novel)
The Devourers by Indrapramit Das (novel)
Of Tales and Enigmas by Minsoo Kang (collection)
Hard-boiled Wonderland by Haruki Murakami (novel)
When Fox Was a Thousand by Larissa Lai (novel)
Mothers and Other Monsters by Hiromi Goto (collection)
The Sea Is Ours by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng (anthology)

Jaymee Goh (@jhameia), writer, editor and “steampunk postcolonialist”:

“Excerpt from the Letter of a Socialist-Realist Aswang” by Kristin Mandigma (story) (Online)
Alternative Alamat, edited by Paolo Chikiamco (anthology)
Cyberpunk Malaysia, edited by Zen Cho (anthology)
Scale Bright by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (novella) (Website)

Indrapramit Das (@IndrapramitDas), the author of The Devourers and consulting editor for Juggernaut:

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (novel)
Things We Found During the Autopsy by Kuzhali Manickavel (collection) (Website)
Escape From Baghdad! by Saad Z. Hossain (novel)
Usman T. Malik’s novellas and short fiction (among them “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family,” and “Ishq”) (Website)
Alyssa Wong’s short fiction (among them “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”) (Website)
Aliette de Bodard’s short fiction and novellas (among them “Immersion” and “On a Red Station Drifting”) (Website)
Gameworld trilogy; Turbulence and Resistance by Samit Basu (novels)
Other People by Mimi Mondal (collection) (*available in India only)
Half of What I Say by Anil Menon (novel)
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet by Vandana Singh (collection) (Website)

Anil Menon (website), the author of Half of What I Say:

A Flowering Tree & Other Oral Tales by AK Ramanujan (anthology) (Online)
The Tale Of The Old Fisherman: Contemporary Urdu Short Stories by Memon (anthology), which contains speculative stories by Urdu writers Surendra Prakash, Khalida Asghar (Hussein), Hasan Manzar and Naiyar Masud.
All About H. Hatterr by G. V. Desani (novel)
A Long Day’s Night by Pradip Ghosh (novel)
Ela: The Girl Who Entered The Unknown by Sampurna Chatterji (novel)
Inspector Matadeen On The Moon & Other Stories by Harishankar Parsai (trans from Hindi by C. Naim) (collection includes SF stories)

For writers, Anil recommends these “brave failures”:

The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh (novel)
The Last Jet-Engine Laugh by Ruchir Joshi (novel)
River of Gods by Ian McDonald (novel)
The Virgin Fish Of Babughat by Lokenath Bhattacharya (novel)
Scourge From The Skies by Param Jit Kumar (novel)
The Lamp And The Jar by Krishna Rayan (essays)
More Than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India by David Shulman

Others:

Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (collection)
The Buried Giant and Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro (novels)
Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin ((trilogy)
Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (novella) (Online)
Sadeq Hedayat’s stories, including “Abunasr Rock” and “The Serum of Sterility”
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu (collection) (Website)
Paradise Tales by Geoff Ryman (collection)
John Chu’s stories (uncollected) (Website)
Indra Das’s short stories (uncollected) (Website)
Priya Sharma’s stories (uncollected) (Website)
“Into the Night” by Anil Menon (short story) (Online)
“Liminal Grid” by Jaymee Goh (short story) (Online)

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