Inspired from New Speculative Fiction Stars, this list is for new speculative fiction by new authors. That should mean books written by authors who have published for the first time in the period Jan 1st 2020 thru Dec 31 2029.

And let's keep it to the authors first speculative fiction book.

And a minimum of 100 ratings.

New Speculative Writers by Decade:
2020s, 2010s, 2000s

See also:
Best Science Fiction on Goodreads with less than 100 ratings
Best Science Fiction of the 2010s
Best Fantasy on Goodreads with less than 100 ratings
Best Fantasy of the 2010s
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107 books · 43 voters · list created May 7th, 2021 by Mitchell Friedman (votes) .
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message 1: by Mark (new)

Mark Brand new sci-fi novel and author here. Check out THE LEVER.


message 2: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman So Her, this is not the author's first book. And I see no sign that the author's first book or this one is speculative fiction. It is tagged a thriller - so I expect at some point I will delete it from this list unless I hear a good explanation.


message 3: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Removing Gideon the Ninth, published 2019


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