This year is almost over, but what will the new year bring? I already have more than a dozen titles from 2012 on my wish list. They are (in alphabetical order by surname of author):

• Stonemouth, Iain Banks
• Dark Eden, Chris Beckett
• alt.human, Keith Brooke
• Black Opera, Mary Gentle
• The Thousand Emperors, Gary Gibson – the sequel to Final Days
• Ison of the Isles, Carolyn Ives Gilman – sequel to Isles of the Forsaken, which I liked very much; I’ve already pre-ordered it
• Empty Space, M John Harrison – a new novel following Light and Nova Swing
• One Who Disappeared, David Herter – the much-delayed end to Herter’s East European fantasy trilogy
• The Games, Ted Kosmatka
• In the Mouth of the Whale, Paul McAuley
• Intrusion, Ken MacLeod
• Ghost Doing the Orange Dance, Paul Park
• Blue Remembered Earth, Alastair Reynolds – the start of a new trilogy, Poseidon’s Children
• 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson
• Slow Apocalypse / One Minute to Midnight, John Varley – I don’t think the title has been decided yet
• The Spacesuit Film, Gary Westfahl