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psocopteraSee the whole list here.
Novel
Ancillary Justice! Yay!
Neptune's Brood - hrm, Saturn's Children was not so exciting that I wanted to read the sequel, but I suppose I could slog through this for the purposes of voting.
Parasite - I still feel done with Mira Grant.
Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles - title not promising, Amazon page less so. I have better things to do than slog through this.
The Wheel of Time - whaaaaa? Like, the whole thing, like, all nearly four and a half MILLION words according to wikipedia? That's been coming out since the 90s? How is that even "a novel"? Not all of the books were even written by the same person. (Which seems different than a project that was co-written from beginning to end.) Maybe this category needs a wordmax to distinguish single novels from entire series? There is NO WAY that, having declined to follow this series for the past 25 years, I am now going to slog through fifteen books of it for the purposes of being a better Hugo voter.
I don't know. I mean, one book I loved and four books ("books") I don't even want to read is better than five books I don't want to read. But, meh, fellow Hugo nominators, I say "meh" in your direction. (I think the biggest shock to me is that Ocean at the End of the Lane didn't make it... I wasn't that wild about it myself but I totally would have guessed that Gaiman fans outnumbered, uh, everyone else ::grin::.)
Things I Am Excited About
Sofia Samatar up for the Campbell. "Time" up for Graphic Story. Although the four short stories are not my very very favoritests from this year they are all good stories (and I did nominate "Selkie Stories"). "Wakulla Springs".
What the F*ing F*
Vox Day????
Novel
Ancillary Justice! Yay!
Neptune's Brood - hrm, Saturn's Children was not so exciting that I wanted to read the sequel, but I suppose I could slog through this for the purposes of voting.
Parasite - I still feel done with Mira Grant.
Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles - title not promising, Amazon page less so. I have better things to do than slog through this.
The Wheel of Time - whaaaaa? Like, the whole thing, like, all nearly four and a half MILLION words according to wikipedia? That's been coming out since the 90s? How is that even "a novel"? Not all of the books were even written by the same person. (Which seems different than a project that was co-written from beginning to end.) Maybe this category needs a wordmax to distinguish single novels from entire series? There is NO WAY that, having declined to follow this series for the past 25 years, I am now going to slog through fifteen books of it for the purposes of being a better Hugo voter.
I don't know. I mean, one book I loved and four books ("books") I don't even want to read is better than five books I don't want to read. But, meh, fellow Hugo nominators, I say "meh" in your direction. (I think the biggest shock to me is that Ocean at the End of the Lane didn't make it... I wasn't that wild about it myself but I totally would have guessed that Gaiman fans outnumbered, uh, everyone else ::grin::.)
Things I Am Excited About
Sofia Samatar up for the Campbell. "Time" up for Graphic Story. Although the four short stories are not my very very favoritests from this year they are all good stories (and I did nominate "Selkie Stories"). "Wakulla Springs".
What the F*ing F*
Vox Day????
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Date: 2014-04-20 09:44 pm (UTC)Yeah.
(And Vox Day appears to be the result of a campaign. See Scalzi's blog for more.)
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Date: 2014-04-21 10:12 am (UTC)"This year's award for physics goes to...... Sir Issac Newton for a whole-bunch-o-stuff!"