Another Constituency Heard From

SF Site has just put up their list of the Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2005:

10) Life by Gwyneth Jones
9) Woken Furies by Richard Morgan
9) The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
8) Vellum by Hal Duncan
7) The Ultimates No. 2 by Mark Millar, illustrated by Bryan Hitch
6) The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
6) The Hounds of Avalon by Mark Chadbourn
5) Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
5) 9-Tail Fox by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
4) The Silences of Home by Caitlin Sweet
3) Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
2) Accelerando by Charles Stross
1) Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
1) The House of Storms by Ian R. MacLeod

Yes, those are fourteen books; they had ties for some of the places and didn't just drop the lowest-scoring four books for obscure reasons they failed to mention. (So their actual top ten ends at The Ultimates.)

I haven't read some of the foreign titles (since I usually only get to books once they're eligible for the SFBC; it doesn't make any sense to read something a year or two before I can sell it, and be forgetful and clueless once it finally does make it to my neck of the woods). But there are some books that I think they completely missed: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin, Thud! by Terry Pratchett, Strange Itineraries by Tim Powers, Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud, and, especially, Counting Heads by David Marusek. Arguing over matters of taste is completely futile, of course, but what are blogs for if not to do completely pointless things?