You have a great list of books to choose from, but I'm going to have to go out on a limb and reonemmcd another book. My favorite sci-fi of 2010 was a book by called Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale. It's a prose poem in disguise. Even when it touches upon science! The language is so compelling, I simply had to follow, even though I donā??t really read science fiction all the time, it was one of the best books I've read in a long while