Looking for 2015 SF&F Recommendations!

[rowyn]

Next year, I'll be going to MidAmericon, the 2016 WorldCon. This means I'll be eligible to make Hugo nominations!

Which means that I should read some SF&F that was written this year.

Because I have a habit of reading only work that's been recommended to me, and I'm too cheap to buy hardcovers/e-books priced like hardcovers, my reading is rarely anything published in the last 12 months. But hey, I can check stuff out from the library and even figure out the nationwide-interlibrary loan system again if I have to! And indie books are usually reasonably priced even when new. LET'S DO THIS.

So if you know any good sf&f that came out this year (including your own!), please let me know. I am especially interested in short fiction -- I actually know 2 novels to nominate already -- but anything is good.  If it's something you enjoyed but feel is a "guilty pleasure" or "not literary enough for an award" or whatever, please recommend it anyway. I like light fluffy stories and will be happy to nominate a good one for an award.

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[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

Novel: Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown, fantasy Regency with the first Black magician in the UK, familiars, and a very determined young woman... Ken Liu's The Grace of King, which is like a cross between Three Kingdoms and Tolkien.
Mine is out this month as well: The House of Shattered Wings, set in a post-magical-apocalypse Paris with witches, alchemists, Fallen angels and entirely too many dead bodies.

In short fiction I've loved Isabel Yap's Milagroso on Tor.com: http://www.tor.com/2015/08/12/milagroso-isabel-yap/ and Usman T Malik's "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" http://www.tor.com/2015/04/22/the-pauper-prince-and-the-eucalyptus-jinn-usman-malik/

[rowyn]

Congrats on your book! Nice elevator pitch you have for it. :) *snags a sample*

Hmm, The Grace of Kings looks like "my ebook edition is on sale right now because my author translated the Best Novel winner", so I think I will just buy it now.

Sorcer is not quuuuite out yet, so I'll get a sample of it next time I cruise through this list.

Thank you for the recommendations!