New York 2140 and my Hugo Novel ballot

New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson, standalone. (Could possibly secretly be in a bigger universe with some of his other books but I didn't catch any references.) I liked this more than I thought I would during the first fifth or so, although I do think he's developed some acquired editing immunity, the phenomenon in which as an author accumulates prestige, their editors fail to edit them as strictly anymore. Didn't help that he's deliberately doing a Steinbeck-Melville thing with chapters of direct commentary/future history/free association, etc. Really felt its length.

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Content note for animal harm.

And now, some space, and then my ranking and comments.

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