James Nicoll Reviews

As with the four previous core lists, here are twenty Speculative Fiction works featuring traders chosen entirely on the basis of merit and significance to the field [1]. No implication is intended that these are the only twenty works you should consider.

• The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham
• The Trouble Twisters by Poul Anderson
• The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker
• “The Space Traders” by Derrick Bell
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• The Pride of Chanur by C. J. Cherryh
• A Thousand Words for Stranger by Julie Czerneda
• Trafalgar: A Novel by Angélica Gorodischer
• Spice and Wolf by Isuna Hasekura 
• Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
• The Dream Merchant by Isabel Hoving
• Hellspark by Janet Kagan
• Traveller: Science Fiction Adventure in the Far Future by Mark W. Miller
• There and Back Again by Pat Murphy
• Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton
• “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti 
• Storyteller by Amy Thomson
• The Heaven Chronicles by Joan D. Vinge
• Signs of Life by Cherry Wilder
• Fool’s War by Sarah Zettel

Persons unfamiliar with one or two of the works, congratulations! You’re one of today’s Ten Thousand!

1: There are two filtering rules: 

• Only one work per author per list
• No given work appears on more than one list.