Locus Awards!
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psocopteraLocus Awards! I voted in these because why not. I'm not going to put the entire ballot here - you can see it at that link - but here's some Hugo-relevant commentary.
Calculating Stars beat Record of a Spaceborn Few, Revenant Gun, and Space Opera for Science Fiction Novel (and also Blackfish City, which I believe was my vote, unless I wrote in Semiosis. And also a bunch of other stuff, there are ten finalists per category.) Strengthens my forecasting of a Calculating Stars win for the Hugo.
Spinning Silver won for Fantasy Novel, beating some things I've read (Deep Roots, Wonder Engine, Creatures of Want and Ruin) and some things I haven't.
I've read none of the Horror Novels so will skip over that.
Dread Nation won for Young Adult Novel, beating Cruel Prince, Belles, and Tess of the Road; Children of Blood and Bone was not in this category, so no data on them going head-to-head. (Also ran - Cross Fire and Impostors). I certainly wouldn't mind this outcome for the Lodestar, though!
Trail of Lightning won for First Novel, beating Children of Blood and Bone and The Poppy War, which are all in different categories in the Hugos, so who knows what that means. (And Semiosis, which I definitely voted for here.)
Artificial Condition won for Novella, beating Black God's Drums, Tea Master and the Detective, and Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach; Sugar Sky and Binti 3 did not make the ballot, which is interesting.
Only Harmless Great Thing won for Novelette, continuing its inexorable sweep.
Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth won for Short Story, beating STET and Portal Fantasies and Court Magician (and also Firelight), so I think we're probably also going to see a sweep for that.
Let's see. Anthology award, Collection award, Magazine award (went to Tor.com), Publisher. Dozois won for Editor, Charles Vess won for Artist (which might mean something for Art Book), Le Guin's Conversations on Writing won for Non-Fiction (which might mean something for Related Work), and Vess's Earthsea won for Art Book (even more relevantly). Ok then!
Calculating Stars beat Record of a Spaceborn Few, Revenant Gun, and Space Opera for Science Fiction Novel (and also Blackfish City, which I believe was my vote, unless I wrote in Semiosis. And also a bunch of other stuff, there are ten finalists per category.) Strengthens my forecasting of a Calculating Stars win for the Hugo.
Spinning Silver won for Fantasy Novel, beating some things I've read (Deep Roots, Wonder Engine, Creatures of Want and Ruin) and some things I haven't.
I've read none of the Horror Novels so will skip over that.
Dread Nation won for Young Adult Novel, beating Cruel Prince, Belles, and Tess of the Road; Children of Blood and Bone was not in this category, so no data on them going head-to-head. (Also ran - Cross Fire and Impostors). I certainly wouldn't mind this outcome for the Lodestar, though!
Trail of Lightning won for First Novel, beating Children of Blood and Bone and The Poppy War, which are all in different categories in the Hugos, so who knows what that means. (And Semiosis, which I definitely voted for here.)
Artificial Condition won for Novella, beating Black God's Drums, Tea Master and the Detective, and Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach; Sugar Sky and Binti 3 did not make the ballot, which is interesting.
Only Harmless Great Thing won for Novelette, continuing its inexorable sweep.
Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth won for Short Story, beating STET and Portal Fantasies and Court Magician (and also Firelight), so I think we're probably also going to see a sweep for that.
Let's see. Anthology award, Collection award, Magazine award (went to Tor.com), Publisher. Dozois won for Editor, Charles Vess won for Artist (which might mean something for Art Book), Le Guin's Conversations on Writing won for Non-Fiction (which might mean something for Related Work), and Vess's Earthsea won for Art Book (even more relevantly). Ok then!
