Sarah's SFFBC Challenge Thread (comments okay)

[Sarah]

TBR Cleanup 2020: 4/20

List:

1. Inspired by a meme - The Broken Heavens 4 stars; Jan 21
2. Nominated for 2+ awards (didn't win) - The Passage
3. Small publisher - The Bear 3 stars; Feb 16
4. Relationship between humans/animals - Artemis Awakening
5. Recommended by a public figure - Oryx and Crake
6. Steal from someone else -
7. Makes you wonder - The Gone-Away World
8. Fits a past SFFBC nomination theme - River of Gods
9. #ownvoices - The Only Good Indians
10. Won a smaller or regional award - After the People Lights Have Gone Off, or A Head Full of Ghosts, or The Last Final Girl, or Doctor Sleep
11. What a title?! - Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
12. Published in a memorable year - Senlin Ascends
13. #relatable - Horrorstör 3.5 stars; Feb 15
14. Seven or Twenty - Or What You Will
15. Dialect, slang, or pidgin languages - Followers 4 Stars; Jan 25
16. Pushing the boundaries -
17. The next [Hitchhiker's Guide?] - The Last Human
18. LOLed IRL -
19. Seen in an ad or on social media -
20. Hindsight is 20/20 -11/22/63

Reasons:
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2. Nominated for Locus and GoodReads Choice
3. Small Publisher - Bellevue Literary Press- described as a small press on their website
4. Uplifted Animals - I think. Animal companions at the very least.
5. Stephen King Recommended - https://bookriot.com/2019/03/11/books...
6. TBD
7. Because the last Harkaway book I read had me scratching my head
8. Cyberpunk
9. Native American author - Native American Horror Story
10. All won the "This is Horror Award" which I'm just assuming is pretty small. I'd never heard of it before I started looking for a smaller award.
11. This is one of my favorite titles ever.
12. 2013 is the year my daughter was born
13. Because when you've worked in retail every store is a horrorstor.
14. Due to be published 7/7/2020
15. I'm just guessing a book about social media will have internet slang?
16.
17. Okay- so no one has really said it but me, but it sounds like the next Hitchhiker's Guide.
18.
19.
20. Because it was on that TBR 2019 challenge I didn't finish. And probably the 2018 one too. And I've been meaning to read it ever since I bought it 3 years ago. (hide spoiler)]

Still have a few to plug in that I need to think on.

[Sarah]

2020 Read all the Books Challenge: 0/20

Books I already own:
The Once and Future King
The Song of Achilles
All the Birds in the Sky
Karen Memory
Children of Time
The Library at Mount Char
Seveneves
The Quantum Thief
City of Stairs
The Name of the Wind
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Old Man's War
The City & the City
Anansi Boys
Leviathan Wakes
Red Mars
A Clash of Kings
Consider Phlebas
Gardens of the Moon
Assassin's Apprentice
The Briar King
The Crown Conspiracy
Ender's Game
Neverwhere

[Sarah]

Short Fiction Challenge: 2/52

Read:
The Lion's Den
Zenith Man

TBR:
The Guile
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
The Monster of Elendhaven
The Vetting
Zeitgeber
Water: A History: A Tor.com Original
As the Last I May Know
The Touches: A Tor.com Original
In Xanadu
Precious Little Things
The Time Invariance of Snow
Passing Strange
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

[Sarah]

2020 Literary Idol Challenge: 0/?

SF:
Children of Time
Memory of Water
Elysium
Rosewater
Terra Nullius
House of Suns
Blackout / All Clear
The Stars Are Legion
The City in the Middle of the Night
2312
Lock In
Sleeping Giants
Hunter's Run
The Swarm
The Light Brigade
The Martian
Nexus
Inferno
Seveneves
The Passage
We Are Legion
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Oryx and Crake

F:
The Way of Thorn and Thunder
The Way of Kings
The Devourers
Spiderlight
Night Watch
Spinning Silver
Deathless
The Name of the Wind
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Middlegame
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Last Werewolf
Three Parts Dead
Blackwing
The Goblin Emperor
The Breath of the Sun
The Crown Conspiracy
Anansi Boys
Empire in Black and Gold
The King's Peace
Hounded
The Cloud Roads
The Final Empire
Jade City
Kings of the Wyld
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
All the Birds in the Sky
Furies of Calderon

GB:
1Q84
Perdido Street Station
The Terror
Cloud Atlas
Moon Called
The Book Thief
Fledgling
Krampus: The Yule Lord
The Aeronaut's Windlass
Rivers of London
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Dirty Streets of Heaven
An Unkindness of Ghosts
The City & the City
Gideon the Ninth