Voting for the Hugos closes tomorrow! Deciding how to rank a lot of really stellar work has been really challenging, but this is a good problem to have. I would much rather have this problem than the one we had the past few years. Here's a all my posts about the fiction finalists--just in case you're still tinkering with your ballot. I keep making changes...
Here we are, the Tuesday before Hugo voting closes and it's time for the last two fiction reviews--Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning and Cixin Liu's Death's End. I have a confession to make: I haven't read either in their entirety. In part because I've run out of time and in part because I simply didn't care for either of them enough to make the effort...
This year, the finalists for Best Novella are: A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com) Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com) Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum Literary Agency) The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson (Tor.com) The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle (Tor.com) This Census-Taker by China...
A Closed and Common Orbit may be the sequel to Becky Chambers’s first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, but its scope and cast of characters is much smaller. Instead of a full complement of characters, this time Chambers focuses on two secondary characters from the first novel: Lovelace, the ship’s AI, and Pepper, an engineer. At the end of The...
I think the novelette finalists are a bit more of a mixed bag. Some of them I think are outstanding, one fell flat for me, and then there's that other one. You know the one. The novelette finalists are: "The Tomato Thief" by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine) "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" by Alyssa Wong (Uncanny Magazine) "The Jewel and Her Lapidary"...
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I am a two-time Hugo Award finalist, in 2017 for Best Fan Writer and in 2021 for my essay “George R.R. Martin Can Fuck Off Into the Sun, Or: The 2020 Hugo Awards Ceremony (Rageblog Edition)” in the Best Related Work category.
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Readercon – August 13-15, 2021 (virtual)
Capclave – October 1-3, 2021 (in person)
DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention – December 15-19, 2021 (in person)
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