A not-about-work post, promise...
Jun. 1st, 2014 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusSince I'm off to WorldCon in August (can't wait!), I just downloaded a significant amount of profic from the various Hugo and Campbell award packets and am looking forward to getting into (most of) it immensely.
Orbit Books' decision to only offer lengthy snippets of their 3 nominations in the Novel category means I probably won't be voting in that category though I already have a copy of Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie in paperback so may have to break that one out instead. Kudos to the folks who publish Wheel of Time for including it in its entirety but I'm afraid I prefer variety over quantity so I can make a more informed decision elsewhere...
So, my reading list for the next two months looks like this:
Campbell Award nominees:
Wesley Chu - The Lives of Tao
Max Gladstone - Three Parts Dead and Two Serpents Rise
Ramez Naam - Nexus
Sofia Samatar - A Stranger in Olondria
Benjanun Sriduangkaew - various short stories, of which I'd already read The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly, which is both creepy and awesome.
Novella:
Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages - Wakulla Springs
Catheryn Valente - Six-Gun Snow White
Brad Torgersen - The Chaplain's Legacy
Novelette:
Brad Torgersen - The Exchange Officers
Aliette de Bodard - The Waiting Stars
Ted Chiang - The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
Mary Robinette Kowal - The Lady Astronaut of Mars
That's it, just about (once I'd also removed stuff which was part of a series/universe I'd previously tried but not enjoyed) - anyone else on my flist reading (or have read any of) the Hugo nominations or is it just me? ;)
Orbit Books' decision to only offer lengthy snippets of their 3 nominations in the Novel category means I probably won't be voting in that category though I already have a copy of Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie in paperback so may have to break that one out instead. Kudos to the folks who publish Wheel of Time for including it in its entirety but I'm afraid I prefer variety over quantity so I can make a more informed decision elsewhere...
So, my reading list for the next two months looks like this:
Campbell Award nominees:
Novella:
Novelette:
That's it, just about (once I'd also removed stuff which was part of a series/universe I'd previously tried but not enjoyed) - anyone else on my flist reading (or have read any of) the Hugo nominations or is it just me? ;)
