BEST NOVEL • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Excerpt) WINNER! • Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross (Excerpt) • Parasite by Mira Grant (Excerpt) • Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia (Amazon Excerpt) • The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (Excerpt) BEST NOVELLA • The Butcher of Khardov by Dan Wells (PDF Excerpt) • “The Chaplain’s Legacy” by Brad Torgersen • “Equoid” by Charles Stross (Full) WINNER! • “Six-Gun Snow White” by Catherynne M. Valente (Excerpt) • “Wakulla Springs” by Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages (Full) BEST NOVELETTE • “The Exchange Officers” by Brad Torgersen • “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” by Mary…
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The 2013 Hugos and Where You Can Find Them
BEST NOVEL (40,000+ words) • 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Amazon Excerpt) Skip it • Blackout by Mira Grant (Excerpt) Thumbs Up! • Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold (Excerpt) Either way • Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi (Excerpt) Thumbs Up! WINNER! • Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed (Excerpt) Either way BEST NOVELLA (17,500 – 40,000 words) • “After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall” by Nancy Kress (Amazon Excerpt) Either way • “The Emperor’s Soul” by Brandon Sanderson (Excerpt) Either way WINNER! • “On a Red Station, Drifting” by Aliette de Bodard (Excerpt) Skip it • “San Diego 2014:…
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The 2012 Hugos and Where You Can Find Them
And of course, as soon as I’m done reading the Nebulas, the Hugos get announced. Lots of crossovers this year though. Remember — the Hugos are a popular vote, voted on by anyone who pays money to Worldcon to become a member. BEST NOVEL (40,000+ words)• Among Others by Jo Walton (Excerpt) (Google Books Preview) (Amazon Excerpt) Thumbs Up!WINNER!• A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin (Excerpt) (Google Books Preview) (Amazon Excerpt) Thumbs Up!• Deadline by Mira Grant (Excerpt) (Amazon Excerpt) Thumbs Up!• Embassytown by China Miéville (Excerpt) (Amazon Excerpt) Skip it• Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey (Excerpt) (Google Books Preview) (Amazon Excerpt) Thumbs Up! BEST NOVELLA (17,500 –…
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The 2011 Hugos and Where You Can Find Them
BEST NOVEL·Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Amazon Excerpt) WINNER!·Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold (Excerpt)·The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (Amazon Excerpt)·Feed by Mira Grant (Excerpt) Either way·The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Excerpt) BEST NOVELLA·The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window by Rachel Swirsky (Full) Thumbs Up!·The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (Full) Thumbs Up! WINNER!·The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon by Elizabeth Hand·The Sultan of the Clouds by Geoffrey A. Landis (Full) Thumbs Up!·Troika by Alastair Reynolds BEST NOVELETTE·Eight Miles by Sean McMullen·The Emperor of Mars by Allen M. Steele (Full) (Audio) WINNER!·The Jaguar House, in Shadow by Aliette de Bodard (Full) Skip…
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The 2010 Hugos and Where You Can Find Them
So every year the Hugos and Nebulas come out and I try and read them all. Of course, it’s hard to read the novels, but they do have excerpts. So at least you can get an idea for what the book is about when they talk about it in the blogs. This year, I thought I’d let you all in on what I find too. Share the wealth, that’s what I say. So here are all the links I found to this year’s Hugo nominations online. Some are full and some are excerpts. I usually didn’t include Amazon if I didn’t have to, but that’s another resource you can use.…
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Nominations are Awesome
Today’s rant comes to us from this fellow (and the letter Q). If you read Scalzi’s blog, you’ve probably already seen it. Basically, it’s just a rant on how this guy’s not pleased with the mediocrity of the Hugo nominations for best novel this year, and how the voters are not going for, what he says is, the good, groundbreaking, experimental science fiction. He demands that we, the readers, need to broaden our horizons, and starting picking the right novels (which he conveniently lists for our convenience). He also expressed disgust on how many novels were YA this time around, calling them monotonic and simple. He even tries to lump…
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The Books I Read: January – March 2009
While I’m wool-gathering brain-storming researching develop the background for Mermaid Story, let’s take a look at the books I read this past quarter. Coraline by Neil Gaiman I discovered this online for free shortly before the movie came out, although that’s not really relevant since I haven’t seen it yet. It’s a good book, good children’s story. Like Alice in Wonderland if it was directed by Tobe Hooper. There’s something about the “Person falls into Magic World” that’s still appealing, and Gaiman’s done it thrice now (Coraline for the kids, Mirrormask for the teens, and Neverwhere for the adults). He does a good job of starting out as mundane, moving…
