2023 Hugo nominees
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psocopteraETA OH MY GOD WTF THE FILE 770 PAGE NOW SAYS "Tammy Coxen relayed a request to me from Hugo Administrator Dave McCarty to remove the post with the finalists released on the Chengdu Worldcon website today because “it was released in error and not correct.”" What the FUCK are they doing over there. Maybe some or all of this is wrong?? Are we having a La La Land/Moonlight moment here?? Yiiiiikes.
At last! The Chengdu official page wouldn't load for me so I pulled this from File 770 here.
Behind the cut with commentary!
BEST NOVEL
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor Books)
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Tor Books)
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor Books)
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor Books)
Holy shit, no Babel. Do we think Kuang turned it down? (Due to the con being in Chengdu?) Do we think the Chinese government objects to Kuang (who I seem to recall has spoken in support of the Hong Kong protesters)? Is the whole China thing a red herring and did Hugo voters just genuinely think these were six better novels? (Did *Chinese* voters think these were six better novels? Is Babel even available in China? Is it inherently racist to try to speculate about how this year's demographics and context might be affecting the ballot? To be clear, if Chinese voters tended not to nominate Babel and thus it didn't make the ballot, I feel like that's a legitimate outcome, if disappointing to me.)
In other news, I have to read two of these (SMG and Kowal) and don't even know what to predict.
BEST NOVELLA
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
Where the Drowned Girls Go, Seanan McGuire (Todotcom)
What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire)
Ha! No Prayer for the Crown-Shy! Things are definitely being weird here but I like this one so I'm less suspicious. :) I have to read three of these (Tchaikovsky, Harrow, McGuire).
BEST NOVELETTE
If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You, John Chu (Uncanny Magazine Issue 47)
The Difference Between Love and Time, Catherynne M. Valente (Solaris)
We Built This City, Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld Issue 189)
The Space-Time Painte,r Hai Ya|时空画师 海漄|银河边缘0092022年5月
A Dream of Electric Mothers, Wole Talabi Culturescapes, Sternberg Press (CH)
Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness, SL Huang (Clarkesworld Issue 195)
I'm excited to see what I'm assuming is a Chinese story on here, and I hope we're able to get a translation in the packet! (Also I said we could expect to see that Valente.)
BEST SHORT STORY
“Upstart”, Lu Ban. (Clarkesworld Issue 195) |白色悬崖 鲁般|科幻世界2022年5月
“Zhurong on Mars”, Regina Kanyu Wang|火星上的祝融 王侃瑜|天涯2022年第5期
“On the Razor’s Edge”, Jiang Bo|命悬一线 江波|科幻世界2022年1月
“Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine 2022.11-12)
“DIY”, John Wiswell (Tor Books)
“Resurrection”, Ren Qing |还魂 任青|(Future Fiction)/科幻世界杂志社
I continue to be excited to see what I'm assuming are Chinese authors in this category. (I should say I'm stripping out the Chinese from most things on this list to improve readability for myself, a person completely illiterate in Chinese, but leaving it in for stuff that I'm guessing was originally published in Chinese.)
BEST SERIES
The Scholomance, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
The Locked Tomb, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
Children of Time Trilogy, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pan Macmillan/Orbit)
October Daye, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
The Founders Trilogy, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey)
Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovich (DAW Books Inc.) (DAW Books Inc.)
Yay, Scholomance! Looks like I'll be reading some Bennett if I have time.
BEST GRAPHIC STORY OR COMIC
Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams, Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski (Dark Horse Books)
DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel, Lilah Sturges, Drew Johnson, Zid
Monstress vol. 7: Devourer, Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda (Image Comics)
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Tom King, Bilquis Evely and Matheus Lopes (DC Comics)
Once & Future Vol 4: Monarchies in the UK, Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora (BOOM! Studios)
Saga, Vol. 10, Fiona Staples,Brian K. Vaughan, (Fonografiks) (Fonografiks|Image Comics)
What's not here: anything I'm excited about. :( Although my lack of excitement about Cyberpunk 2077 is just based on the title, maybe it's secretly cool.
BEST RELATED WORK
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)
THE ART OF GHOST OF TSUSHIMA, Sucker Punch Productions
Chinese Science Fiction An Oral History Vol 1, Yang Feng
Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir, Wil Wheaton
Ghost of Workshops Past, S.L. Huang (Tor.com)
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, Kyle Buchanan (William Morrow)
Ok, I would read a couple of these.
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
Everything Everywhere All at Once Written and Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Andor (Season 1) Directed by Toby Haynes, Susanna White, Ben Caron
Nope Written by Jordan Peele, Directed by Jordan Peele (Universal)
Turning Red Written by Domee Shi, Julia Cho. Sarah Streicher Directed by Domee Shi (Disney Studios)
Severance (season 1) Directed by Ben Stiller, Aoife McArdle|
Avatar： The Way of Water Directed by James Cameron
Ooh, I should watch Nope. [ETA - okay I know this list has been retracted and isn't the real list, but no Wakanda Forever? and come to think of it, no Wakanda Forever on the Bradbury Nebula either? what's up with that?]
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM)
Andor: One Way Out, Directed by Toby Haynes
The Expanse: \”Babylons Ashes\”, Written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar Directed by Breck Eisner
Severence, S1.E9, The We We Are, Writtten by Dan Erickson, Anna Ouyang Moench Directed by Ben Stiller
Andor: Rix Road, Directed by Benjamin Caron
For All Mankind \”Stranger in a Strange Land\”, Written by Matt Wolpert, Ben Nedivi Directed by Craig Zisk
Stranger Things 4 \”Chapter Four: Dear Billy\”, Written by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Paul Dichter, Caitlin Schneiderhan Directed by Shawn Levy
Oh look a category I won't be voting in.
BEST EDITOR (LONG FORM)
Yao Haijun|姚海军|
Yan Huan|颜欢|
Lindsey Hall|林赛·霍尔|
Ruoxi Chen|陈若曦|
Lee Harris|李·哈里斯|
Sarah Peed|莎拉·皮德|
Very interesting! I don't know who most of these people are! (Ruoxi Chen I've definitely heard of, and I think Lee Harris is at Tor.com?)
BEST EDITOR (SHORT FORM)
Neil Clarke|尼尔·克拉克|
Wang Xu|汪旭|
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki|奥亨埃科夫韦·唐纳德·埃克佩基|
Sheree Renee Thomas|雪莉·蕾妮·托马斯|
Scott H Andrews|斯科特·H·安德鲁斯|
Yang Feng|杨枫|
Also interesting!
最佳职业艺术家 BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Alyssa Winans|艾丽莎·怀南斯|
Zhao Enzhe|赵恩哲|
Kuri Huang栗黄|
Paul Lewin|保罗·勒温|
Sija Hong|六厘|
Zhang Jian|张舰|
This ballot is so satisfyingly not the same old people all the time, I love it. (Okay, also I nominated four of these people, I'm biased.)
最佳半职业杂志 BEST SEMIPROZINE
Strange Horizons, The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
Uncanny Magazine, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
FIYAH, DaVaun Sanders
Escape Pod, Co-editors Mur Lafferty & Valerie Valdes; Assistant editors Benjamin C. Kinney & Premee Mohamed; host Tina Connolly; producers Summer Brooks & Adam Pracht; and the Escape Pod team.
khōréō, Aleksandra Hill, Kanika Agrawal, Zhui Ning Chang, Rowan MOrrison, Isabella Kestermann, Sachiko Ragosta
Podcastle, Co-editors Shingai Njeri Kagunda & Eleanor R. Wood; Assistant editor Sofía Barker; Producers Devin Martin & Eric Valdes; Host Matt Dovey; and the Podcastle team.
Uncanny should start declining their nominations, oy. Go khoreo!
BEST FANZINE
ChineseAcademic SF Express, Lazi, Tianluo Qi|中文科幻学术速递 拉兹、天洛_奇|
Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk
Journey Planet, Regina Kanyu Wang, Yen Ooi, Arthur Liu, Sara Felix, Amanda Wakaruk, Olav Rokne, Jean Martin, Steven H Silver, Chuck Serface, Erin Underwood, Alissa Wales, John Coxon, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia
Zero Gravity Newspaper, RiverFlow, Ling ShiZhen
Nerds of a Feather, Adri Joy & Joe Sherry
Galactic Journey, Gideon Marcus, Janice Marcus, Tammi Bozich, Erica Frank, Arel Lucas, Mark Yon
I think I've decided I don't care about this category but also I secretly hope someone Chinese gets to win while they've got the con at home there.
BEST FANCAST
Hugo Girl Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
Octothorpe John Coxon, Alison Scott, Liz Batty
Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan, Gary K. Wolfe
Hugos There Seth Heasley
Worldbuilding for Masochists Cass Morris, Rowenna Miller, Marshall Ryan Maresca|
Kalanadi, Rachel
I go here even less than some other categories I don't go in.
BEST FAN WRITER
Jason Sanford
RiverFlow|河流|
Bitter Karelia
Chris Barkley
Örjan Westin
Arthur Liu|天爵|
I think I'm voting for Karelia.
BEST FAN ARTIST
Iain Clark
Orion Smith
Espana Sheriff
Alison Scott
Laya Rose
Richard Man
Yesss, I have no clue who four out of six of these people are!! A revolution in not seeing the same recycled names all the time!
LODESTAR AWARD OF BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, Charlie Jane Anders
Akata Woman, Nnedi Okorafor
Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, Catherynne M. Valente
In the Serpents Wake, Rachel Hartman
Oh god I have to do so much reading. Full disclosure I already had Bloodmarked from the library once and bounced hard off the first chapter, I just couldn't make myself do it.
THE ASTOUNDING AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER (SPONSORED BY DELL MAGAZINES)
Liu Maijia|刘麦加|
Travis Baldree|特拉维斯·巴尔德里|
Everina Maxwell|埃弗里娜·麦克斯韦|
Xin Weimu|辛维木|
Isabel J Kim|伊莎贝尔·金|
Naseem Jamnia|纳西姆·詹妮亚|
This seems great - there's Kim! And Baldree is a great pick, coming on the scene with a viral novel like that, and I don't know who three of these people are which is also exciting! Oh, Jamnia is Bruising of Qilwa, I've had that on my to-reads for awhile. Xin Weimu seems to have written something called Nebula Xi, which may not have an English translation yet, and Liu Maijia... I'm not sure. *Very* eager to see what we'll get in the packet, and I'm also hoping people who are conversant with the Chinese SFF scene will start posting with info about who some of these people are and what their works are like.
Not being entirely sure what's going to be available makes it a little hard to say how much reading I'm going to end up doing, but I guess at a minimum I've got two novels, three novellas, at least one Tchaikovsky and Bennett, all of the Graphics, four Lodestars, and Qilwa? Ok then. I wonder what the deadline is going to be.
At last! The Chengdu official page wouldn't load for me so I pulled this from File 770 here.
Behind the cut with commentary!
BEST NOVEL
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor Books)
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Tor Books)
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor Books)
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor Books)
Holy shit, no Babel. Do we think Kuang turned it down? (Due to the con being in Chengdu?) Do we think the Chinese government objects to Kuang (who I seem to recall has spoken in support of the Hong Kong protesters)? Is the whole China thing a red herring and did Hugo voters just genuinely think these were six better novels? (Did *Chinese* voters think these were six better novels? Is Babel even available in China? Is it inherently racist to try to speculate about how this year's demographics and context might be affecting the ballot? To be clear, if Chinese voters tended not to nominate Babel and thus it didn't make the ballot, I feel like that's a legitimate outcome, if disappointing to me.)
In other news, I have to read two of these (SMG and Kowal) and don't even know what to predict.
BEST NOVELLA
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
Where the Drowned Girls Go, Seanan McGuire (Todotcom)
What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire)
Ha! No Prayer for the Crown-Shy! Things are definitely being weird here but I like this one so I'm less suspicious. :) I have to read three of these (Tchaikovsky, Harrow, McGuire).
BEST NOVELETTE
If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You, John Chu (Uncanny Magazine Issue 47)
The Difference Between Love and Time, Catherynne M. Valente (Solaris)
We Built This City, Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld Issue 189)
The Space-Time Painte,r Hai Ya|时空画师 海漄|银河边缘0092022年5月
A Dream of Electric Mothers, Wole Talabi Culturescapes, Sternberg Press (CH)
Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness, SL Huang (Clarkesworld Issue 195)
I'm excited to see what I'm assuming is a Chinese story on here, and I hope we're able to get a translation in the packet! (Also I said we could expect to see that Valente.)
BEST SHORT STORY
“Upstart”, Lu Ban. (Clarkesworld Issue 195) |白色悬崖 鲁般|科幻世界2022年5月
“Zhurong on Mars”, Regina Kanyu Wang|火星上的祝融 王侃瑜|天涯2022年第5期
“On the Razor’s Edge”, Jiang Bo|命悬一线 江波|科幻世界2022年1月
“Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine 2022.11-12)
“DIY”, John Wiswell (Tor Books)
“Resurrection”, Ren Qing |还魂 任青|(Future Fiction)/科幻世界杂志社
I continue to be excited to see what I'm assuming are Chinese authors in this category. (I should say I'm stripping out the Chinese from most things on this list to improve readability for myself, a person completely illiterate in Chinese, but leaving it in for stuff that I'm guessing was originally published in Chinese.)
BEST SERIES
The Scholomance, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
The Locked Tomb, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
Children of Time Trilogy, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pan Macmillan/Orbit)
October Daye, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
The Founders Trilogy, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey)
Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovich (DAW Books Inc.) (DAW Books Inc.)
Yay, Scholomance! Looks like I'll be reading some Bennett if I have time.
BEST GRAPHIC STORY OR COMIC
Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams, Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski (Dark Horse Books)
DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel, Lilah Sturges, Drew Johnson, Zid
Monstress vol. 7: Devourer, Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda (Image Comics)
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Tom King, Bilquis Evely and Matheus Lopes (DC Comics)
Once & Future Vol 4: Monarchies in the UK, Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora (BOOM! Studios)
Saga, Vol. 10, Fiona Staples,Brian K. Vaughan, (Fonografiks) (Fonografiks|Image Comics)
What's not here: anything I'm excited about. :( Although my lack of excitement about Cyberpunk 2077 is just based on the title, maybe it's secretly cool.
BEST RELATED WORK
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)
THE ART OF GHOST OF TSUSHIMA, Sucker Punch Productions
Chinese Science Fiction An Oral History Vol 1, Yang Feng
Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir, Wil Wheaton
Ghost of Workshops Past, S.L. Huang (Tor.com)
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, Kyle Buchanan (William Morrow)
Ok, I would read a couple of these.
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
Everything Everywhere All at Once Written and Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Andor (Season 1) Directed by Toby Haynes, Susanna White, Ben Caron
Nope Written by Jordan Peele, Directed by Jordan Peele (Universal)
Turning Red Written by Domee Shi, Julia Cho. Sarah Streicher Directed by Domee Shi (Disney Studios)
Severance (season 1) Directed by Ben Stiller, Aoife McArdle|
Avatar： The Way of Water Directed by James Cameron
Ooh, I should watch Nope. [ETA - okay I know this list has been retracted and isn't the real list, but no Wakanda Forever? and come to think of it, no Wakanda Forever on the Bradbury Nebula either? what's up with that?]
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM)
Andor: One Way Out, Directed by Toby Haynes
The Expanse: \”Babylons Ashes\”, Written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar Directed by Breck Eisner
Severence, S1.E9, The We We Are, Writtten by Dan Erickson, Anna Ouyang Moench Directed by Ben Stiller
Andor: Rix Road, Directed by Benjamin Caron
For All Mankind \”Stranger in a Strange Land\”, Written by Matt Wolpert, Ben Nedivi Directed by Craig Zisk
Stranger Things 4 \”Chapter Four: Dear Billy\”, Written by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Paul Dichter, Caitlin Schneiderhan Directed by Shawn Levy
Oh look a category I won't be voting in.
BEST EDITOR (LONG FORM)
Yao Haijun|姚海军|
Yan Huan|颜欢|
Lindsey Hall|林赛·霍尔|
Ruoxi Chen|陈若曦|
Lee Harris|李·哈里斯|
Sarah Peed|莎拉·皮德|
Very interesting! I don't know who most of these people are! (Ruoxi Chen I've definitely heard of, and I think Lee Harris is at Tor.com?)
BEST EDITOR (SHORT FORM)
Neil Clarke|尼尔·克拉克|
Wang Xu|汪旭|
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki|奥亨埃科夫韦·唐纳德·埃克佩基|
Sheree Renee Thomas|雪莉·蕾妮·托马斯|
Scott H Andrews|斯科特·H·安德鲁斯|
Yang Feng|杨枫|
Also interesting!
最佳职业艺术家 BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Alyssa Winans|艾丽莎·怀南斯|
Zhao Enzhe|赵恩哲|
Kuri Huang栗黄|
Paul Lewin|保罗·勒温|
Sija Hong|六厘|
Zhang Jian|张舰|
This ballot is so satisfyingly not the same old people all the time, I love it. (Okay, also I nominated four of these people, I'm biased.)
最佳半职业杂志 BEST SEMIPROZINE
Strange Horizons, The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
Uncanny Magazine, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
FIYAH, DaVaun Sanders
Escape Pod, Co-editors Mur Lafferty & Valerie Valdes; Assistant editors Benjamin C. Kinney & Premee Mohamed; host Tina Connolly; producers Summer Brooks & Adam Pracht; and the Escape Pod team.
khōréō, Aleksandra Hill, Kanika Agrawal, Zhui Ning Chang, Rowan MOrrison, Isabella Kestermann, Sachiko Ragosta
Podcastle, Co-editors Shingai Njeri Kagunda & Eleanor R. Wood; Assistant editor Sofía Barker; Producers Devin Martin & Eric Valdes; Host Matt Dovey; and the Podcastle team.
Uncanny should start declining their nominations, oy. Go khoreo!
BEST FANZINE
ChineseAcademic SF Express, Lazi, Tianluo Qi|中文科幻学术速递 拉兹、天洛_奇|
Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk
Journey Planet, Regina Kanyu Wang, Yen Ooi, Arthur Liu, Sara Felix, Amanda Wakaruk, Olav Rokne, Jean Martin, Steven H Silver, Chuck Serface, Erin Underwood, Alissa Wales, John Coxon, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia
Zero Gravity Newspaper, RiverFlow, Ling ShiZhen
Nerds of a Feather, Adri Joy & Joe Sherry
Galactic Journey, Gideon Marcus, Janice Marcus, Tammi Bozich, Erica Frank, Arel Lucas, Mark Yon
I think I've decided I don't care about this category but also I secretly hope someone Chinese gets to win while they've got the con at home there.
BEST FANCAST
Hugo Girl Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
Octothorpe John Coxon, Alison Scott, Liz Batty
Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan, Gary K. Wolfe
Hugos There Seth Heasley
Worldbuilding for Masochists Cass Morris, Rowenna Miller, Marshall Ryan Maresca|
Kalanadi, Rachel
I go here even less than some other categories I don't go in.
BEST FAN WRITER
Jason Sanford
RiverFlow|河流|
Bitter Karelia
Chris Barkley
Örjan Westin
Arthur Liu|天爵|
I think I'm voting for Karelia.
BEST FAN ARTIST
Iain Clark
Orion Smith
Espana Sheriff
Alison Scott
Laya Rose
Richard Man
Yesss, I have no clue who four out of six of these people are!! A revolution in not seeing the same recycled names all the time!
LODESTAR AWARD OF BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, Charlie Jane Anders
Akata Woman, Nnedi Okorafor
Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, Catherynne M. Valente
In the Serpents Wake, Rachel Hartman
Oh god I have to do so much reading. Full disclosure I already had Bloodmarked from the library once and bounced hard off the first chapter, I just couldn't make myself do it.
THE ASTOUNDING AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER (SPONSORED BY DELL MAGAZINES)
Liu Maijia|刘麦加|
Travis Baldree|特拉维斯·巴尔德里|
Everina Maxwell|埃弗里娜·麦克斯韦|
Xin Weimu|辛维木|
Isabel J Kim|伊莎贝尔·金|
Naseem Jamnia|纳西姆·詹妮亚|
This seems great - there's Kim! And Baldree is a great pick, coming on the scene with a viral novel like that, and I don't know who three of these people are which is also exciting! Oh, Jamnia is Bruising of Qilwa, I've had that on my to-reads for awhile. Xin Weimu seems to have written something called Nebula Xi, which may not have an English translation yet, and Liu Maijia... I'm not sure. *Very* eager to see what we'll get in the packet, and I'm also hoping people who are conversant with the Chinese SFF scene will start posting with info about who some of these people are and what their works are like.
Not being entirely sure what's going to be available makes it a little hard to say how much reading I'm going to end up doing, but I guess at a minimum I've got two novels, three novellas, at least one Tchaikovsky and Bennett, all of the Graphics, four Lodestars, and Qilwa? Ok then. I wonder what the deadline is going to be.
