SPFBO #7

It’s that time of year again. SPFBO #6 has just finished, crowning Justin Lee Anderson‘s The Lost War its winner. It’s on my reading list for sure, as are several of the very worthy finalists (looking at you, The Combat Codes and Black Stone Heart).

But the fact that #6 is done means that SPFBO #7 is about to begin. And this year, I’ve got something that qualifies again. The Blackbird and the Ghost made it to the semi-finals in #5… so it’s time to see if Ad Luna will meet with approval in #7.

Courtesy of Petros Triantafyllou on the SPFBO Facebook page

“But Huw,” I hear you cry, “you’ve spent the last year going on about how Ad Luna is a sci-fi book!” And that is true – but in the immortal words of Detective Jake Peralta, stuff can be two things. Ad Luna is sci-fi, in that it’s an exploratory voyage across the cosmos… but it’s also full of space-elves and giant vultures, and swords and techno-sorcery, fantastic vistas and feats of heroism. It just depends how you read it.

Ethan Haines said so, anyway, so it’s not just me thinking this.

Ad Luna ought to fit the SPFBO brief nicely. And on June 1st (or the 14th of May when I actually have to submit it), we’ll see how true that statement is.