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Hugo noms
So! Hugo noms are coming perilously close, and of course I have not done half the reading I meant to.
Does anybody have any recs for 2016 or 1941 Hugo-eligible novels I should make sure to read before I nominate?
So far I have read:
Ancillary Mercy
Dark Orbit
Sorceror to the Crown
Uprooted
Darkness on his Bones
Castle Hangnail
Slan
The Ill-Made Knight
(and several of the 1941 ones on the novella/novel line)
They were all good enough I should not be sad if they won, but none of them hit me in the head with Yes! This should definitely win a Hugo!
I have Unbound and The Traitor Baru Cormorant waiting for me, I could maybe get through three or four more if I really push, so what should those three or four more be? Things that are likely to push a rec up my priority list: not by a white cis dude, stand-alone complete in one volume, someone on my reading list thinks it deserves a Hugo, and either secondary-word fantasy with magic or science fiction with spaceships (especially SF with spaceships, not enough of that around lately). ETA: being also Campbell eligible would also help.
...Also I have a bunch of folks' Hugo-eligible short fiction recs bookmarked, but I would not object to recs/links for that either. Or Fanwriter - the problem with that is too many possibilities, no obvious way to narrow down...
I'm actually in better shape than I expected to be for most of the other 2016 categories - I know my noms for Graphic Story, Dramatic Presentation, Editor (Short Form), Zines, and Fancast, will never be able to judge Editor (Long Form) and more or less know where I'm looking for Related Work and Artist. 1941 recs for any of those would be welcome, though.
Does anybody have any recs for 2016 or 1941 Hugo-eligible novels I should make sure to read before I nominate?
So far I have read:
Ancillary Mercy
Dark Orbit
Sorceror to the Crown
Uprooted
Darkness on his Bones
Castle Hangnail
Slan
The Ill-Made Knight
(and several of the 1941 ones on the novella/novel line)
They were all good enough I should not be sad if they won, but none of them hit me in the head with Yes! This should definitely win a Hugo!
I have Unbound and The Traitor Baru Cormorant waiting for me, I could maybe get through three or four more if I really push, so what should those three or four more be? Things that are likely to push a rec up my priority list: not by a white cis dude, stand-alone complete in one volume, someone on my reading list thinks it deserves a Hugo, and either secondary-word fantasy with magic or science fiction with spaceships (especially SF with spaceships, not enough of that around lately). ETA: being also Campbell eligible would also help.
...Also I have a bunch of folks' Hugo-eligible short fiction recs bookmarked, but I would not object to recs/links for that either. Or Fanwriter - the problem with that is too many possibilities, no obvious way to narrow down...
I'm actually in better shape than I expected to be for most of the other 2016 categories - I know my noms for Graphic Story, Dramatic Presentation, Editor (Short Form), Zines, and Fancast, will never be able to judge Editor (Long Form) and more or less know where I'm looking for Related Work and Artist. 1941 recs for any of those would be welcome, though.
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*nods* Yup. I mean! I think this was a strong year and that there are a lot of books I'm happy having read, which is not always the case. My bet is on Uprooted to win (I think fairy-tale ambience + Novik's popularity + Robin McKinley pastiche + doing it better than McKinley = win), and I liked it the best of what I've read, but none of the novels, like you say, has hit me in the head.
I would like to rec the novelette Morrigan in Shadow which is admittedly by a white cis dude, but on the other hand it is not about white dudes and it does have spaceships, and I really liked it and I do think it deserves a Hugo.
Where are you looking for Related Work? I'm in bad shape for that one.
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...mostly I am planning to nom Fanlore and AO3, and probably also New Horizons and some of the other cool space exploration things that came to fruition this year. I doubt any of them will make it past the noms stage but it would be cool enough if they did that I am willing to waste my noms on the off-chance. (And Apollo 11 won, so there's precedent for actual space science winning Hugo awards.)