2021 SFF - the Locus list
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psocopteraHey, it's the Locus list!
Looking at my tentative Hugo long-fiction nominees, so far, looks like basically everything is on here. The Unraveling, Black Water Sister, She Who Became the Sun, and The Hidden Palace being my current list of novels. (I'll probably use that last slot for Desolation Called Peace, if I don't find something else I want to use it for; I also might have considered Master of Djinn, or The Galaxy and the Ground Within.) Novella-wise, I've only read four of their 28, but I have plans to read like five more of them, hopefully giving me more to nominate besides Psalm for the Wild-Built. I'll be curious how many of my short-fiction favorites are on here but that is a question for future me since I haven't, you know, read and found them yet.
In the "what have I managed to not even hear about" game, apparently Garth Nix has written a Sabriel prequel about her parents - I was not so into Clariel/Goldenhand, as I recall, so I think I'm probably at the "I don't want to read more of these in case they detract from the originals that I loved so much" point with this universe. Alaya Dawn Johnson has a short fiction collection out. E.K. Johnston's written a YA SF that wasn't on my to-read list. And a whole bunch of people have written things that were but that I've now been reminded of again. [ETA: apparently including ADJ's collection, since it *was* on my list, although my note thought it was a 2020 work, which might be why I haven't been seeing it while looking for 2021 works in particular...]
Looking at my tentative Hugo long-fiction nominees, so far, looks like basically everything is on here. The Unraveling, Black Water Sister, She Who Became the Sun, and The Hidden Palace being my current list of novels. (I'll probably use that last slot for Desolation Called Peace, if I don't find something else I want to use it for; I also might have considered Master of Djinn, or The Galaxy and the Ground Within.) Novella-wise, I've only read four of their 28, but I have plans to read like five more of them, hopefully giving me more to nominate besides Psalm for the Wild-Built. I'll be curious how many of my short-fiction favorites are on here but that is a question for future me since I haven't, you know, read and found them yet.
In the "what have I managed to not even hear about" game, apparently Garth Nix has written a Sabriel prequel about her parents - I was not so into Clariel/Goldenhand, as I recall, so I think I'm probably at the "I don't want to read more of these in case they detract from the originals that I loved so much" point with this universe. Alaya Dawn Johnson has a short fiction collection out. E.K. Johnston's written a YA SF that wasn't on my to-read list. And a whole bunch of people have written things that were but that I've now been reminded of again. [ETA: apparently including ADJ's collection, since it *was* on my list, although my note thought it was a 2020 work, which might be why I haven't been seeing it while looking for 2021 works in particular...]
