Our 2024 picks: Aotearoa New Zealand science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction
Join us as we look back at our favourite New Zealand science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction published this year!
Some quick notes... These are our picks for adults, but as an added bonus, we've also included a couple of younger reader titles that we feel a wider adult audience might enjoy (find these in the last few spots below).
One of the younger reader titles we're highlighting, is Pōneke local (and arts and literary maven!) Claire Mabey's debut book, The Raven's Eye runaways, published this year.
Have a browse and find Claire's book and our other picks below:
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It’s not often we recommend two books in the same year by one author (our next pick is also an H. G. Parry title), however H. G. Parry is one of our favourite New Zealand writers currently working in the fantasy genre. If you’ve never fallen under her writing spell, her two books this year could well convert you into being a fan.
Heartless is an exceptional example of her output; an origin novella set in the world of Peter Pan, it centers on how the child James Hook becomes the villain pirate of Neverland. Parry creates a delicious, compelling, multi-layered read - at turns frightening and haunting, and at others charming and lovely. This is a novella that peeks behind the veil and explores what it truly means to never grow up. Enjoy!