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2021 Locus, Nebula, and Hugo lists
The Nebula Award finalists were announced:https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announc...
Nebula Award Nominations for Best Novel
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk
Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse
🏆 Network Effect, Martha Wells
The Award winners were announced at the SFWA Nebula Conference: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announc...
The Hugo Awards nominations and winners for all categories are available on the official Hugo website:http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-his...
Hugo Award Nominations for Best Novel
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal
Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse
🏆 Network Effect, Martha Wells
The Awards were presented at the 79th WorldCon, DisCon III.
Locus announced its finalists: https://locusmag.com/2021/05/2021-loc...Science Fiction Novel
Machine, Elizabeth Bear
Attack Surface, Cory Doctorow
Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott
Agency, William Gibson
The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal
War of the Maps, Paul McAuley
The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Last Emperox, John Scalzi
🏆 Network Effect, Martha Wells
Interlibrary Loan, Gene Wolfe
Fantasy Novel
The Trouble with Peace, Joe Abercrombie
The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow
🏆 The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix
The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk
Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
First Novel
The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez
The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson
The Unspoken Name, A.K. Larkwood
🏆 Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed
Architects of Memory, Karen Osborne
The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart
Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots
On June 26th, Locus announced its winners: https://locusmag.com/2021/06/2021-loc...
The more I see these being mentioned, the more I want to read them!Chosen Spirits, Samit Basu
Tender Is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica
The Wall, Gautam Bhatia
Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas
Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed
Eartheater, Dolores Reyes
Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots
ETA: Yay for Vagabonds, The Vanished Birds, The Blade Between!
I have read three of these novels so far. The Last Emperox by John Scalzi, Network Effect by Martha Wells, and The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie. All of them were great. Lots of great suggestions for my to be read bookshelf.
Any of these a good first contact story with interesting aliens and world building?
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The Nebula Award nominations were announced:https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announc...
I listed the Best Novel nominations in post #2 above.
Ooh, five hours of the poll left, I wonder if that changes anything :D
Well, at least one SF book made it. Something to be grateful for?
I am still crabby about fantasy being allowed for the Hugos.
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I'm looking at the list of Hugo finalists and I'm overjoyed to finally see my favorite Booktube channel, Kalanadi, make the Best Fancast list ^_^There's also some books :P
edit: Official Hugo link here
Cheers to the Ladies Sweeping the nominations!
Locus announced its finalists: https://locusmag.com/2021/05/2021-loc...I copied the most relevant lists to Message 4 above.
The Nebula Awards were announced. Network Effect by Martha Wells won Best Novel. Other categories are listed at https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announc...
Locus announced its winners: https://locusmag.com/2021/06/2021-loc...Science Fiction Novel: Network Effect, Martha Wells
Fantasy Novel: The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
First Novel: Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
So glad about Elatsoe - it was a 5 star read
Silvana wrote: "The more I see these being mentioned, the more I want to read them!Chosen Spirits, Samit Basu
Remember how moderators chose it last spring, but it wasn't widely available so we switched to something else.
My copy came in today, I think actually from India!
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Hugo voters, have you finished your packet? I am finishing the big four categories and will move to the graphic novels stuff this week. Funny that even though we have more time to read but I still find myself behind almost everything ;p
Silvana wrote: "Hugo voters, have you finished your packet? I am finishing the big four categories and will move to the graphic novels stuff this week. Funny that even though we have more time to read but I stil..."
Is it bad that I haven't quite started yet? 🤦🏽♀️
@Leonie, Silvana: same here. I find myself reading anything but the Hugo nominees. ^^' It's embarrassing non-discipline.
@Leonie: LOL now I'm feeling better@Gabi: I found it difficult trying to balance my mood, languishing TBR and the packet. And this year my reading has diminished so...yeah. I'll just see what I am actually interested to read from the packet. In the previous years I did try to read/skim everything including the fan categories.
This year's shorts and novelettes are pretty awesome, by the way.
Silvana wrote: "Hugo voters, have you finished your packet? I am finishing the big four categories and will move to the graphic novels stuff this week. Funny that even though we have more time to read but I stil..."
This is my first year voting and I don't know how anyone normally gets through the packet in the normal time frame! :-P So far I've read all the novels, novellas, novelettes, and short stories. I'm still working on the series and graphic stories. I decided to give up on the Lodestar category. YA just really, really isn't for me. I've watched all the dramatic categories.
What is your philosophy about voting in categories where you don't read (or otherwise consume) everything in it? Do you only vote if you've read everything? What about series? I'm thinking I'll just try to read the first book in all the series, but I'm not sure that's really fair. And there are some video games that I don't even have the right console to play. So should I just skip that category or vote for the ones I can play? 🤔
Good question, Kristenelle.I only rank the ones I read in the ballot. If I happen to read only one or two nominee out of five for example, I'd still put it in the ballot if I think it's a four-star or five-star read, e.g. the Astounding & Best Series categories.
I don't vote for/rank a series if I have yet to read the ones in the packet.
This year I will definitely skip some categories again. Video game for sure, then editor for long form and fan stuff. Lodestar too, I don't have time to read them. Sadly I would have to skip the podcast one this year.
My targets now are graphic works + artists (those don't take much time), and semiprozines+editor short form (it's basically a package).
I don't vote if I haven't read. So some of my categories are generally empty.I know I've downloaded my packet, but for the life of me, I can't remember where I filed it. Or what I called it. 🤦🏽♀️
Leonie wrote: "I don't vote if I haven't read. So some of my categories are generally empty.I know I've downloaded my packet, but for the life of me, I can't remember where I filed it. Or what I called it. 🤦🏽♀️"
LOL that happens
Anyway I am finished with the graphic novel category now. I think my faves are still Monstress & Parable of the Sower. I am supposed to be reading the short form editors now but I am finding myself swamped with BRs again - this year I suck at scheduling.
I have now downloaded again, and put everything into a very obvious folder on my desktop. Now to transfer some of it to my Kindle.
Thanks! Are we having a Hugo watch party in Discord?
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Allison wrote: "you certainly can! we have a game night tonight so you could watch and report to us too, if playing isn't of interest"cool cool cool!
And I am so happy now because Chengdu won the bid for the 2023 WorldCon so finally I could go to one after my last year's plan got cancelled *dancing*
Silvana wrote: "Allison wrote: "you certainly can! we have a game night tonight so you could watch and report to us too, if playing isn't of interest"cool cool cool!
And I am so happy now because Chengdu won th..."
Aw, yay! I'm so happy for you, Silvana!
Kristenelle wrote: "Silvana wrote: "Allison wrote: "you certainly can! we have a game night tonight so you could watch and report to us too, if playing isn't of interest"cool cool cool!
And I am so happy now becaus..."
Thank you!
So she got the Nebula, Locus and Hugo this year? Seems like everyone loves Murderbot.
Most voters. Did not vote for both myself.My record is better this year for the big four, 1 out of 4, since Nghi Vo won the best novella. Truly, well deserved.
Complete list of winners:
https://www.tor.com/2021/12/18/2021-h...
How many of your number 1 pick won?
The only favs of mine won in Best Related Work, Professional Artist and Lodestar.
Gabi wrote: "The only favs of mine won in Best Related Work, Professional Artist and Lodestar."Hey I also only got three: Novella, Graphic Novel, and Dramatic Presentation Short Form. I wish I had time to read the editors stuff.
Super sad Simon Jimenez did not win the Astounding one.
Yes, Simon Jimenez would have deserved it so much!On a brighter note: Adrian Tchaikovsky won Sidewise Award on worldcon (not sure I've heard of this before ...)
I scored several - Short story, Novel, Series, Long Form Dramatic Presentation, and Lodestar.
Gabi wrote: "Yes, Simon Jimenez would have deserved it so much!On a brighter note: Adrian Tchaikovsky won Sidewise Award on worldcon (not sure I've heard of this before ...)"
First time I ever heard about it as well. Annalee won for The Future of Another Timeline but for 2019. Aaand is this typo deliberate? https://twitter.com/worldcon2021/stat...
Leonie wrote: "I scored several - Short story, Novel, Series, Long Form Dramatic Presentation, and Lodestar."Nice
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First up are the Locus Recommended Reading lists:
https://locusmag.com/2021/02/2020-loc...
I am putting only the most relevant novel lists here, but the link also has lists for horror, short fiction, and the other award categories.
Science Fiction Novels
Providence, Max Barry
Chosen Spirits, Samit Basu
Tender Is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica
Machine, Elizabeth Bear
Ghost Species, James Bradley
Failed State, Christopher Brown
The Book of Koli, M.R. Carey
Bridge 108, Anne Charnock
Attack Surface, Cory Doctorow
City Under the Stars, Gardner Dozois & Michael Swanwick
Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott
Agency, William Gibson
Anthropocene Rag, Alex Irvine
The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal
The Eleventh Gate, Nancy Kress
The Arrest, Jonathan Lethem
War of the Maps, Paul McAuley
Pacific Storm, Linda Nagata
Driving the Deep, Suzanne Palmer
The Evidence, Christopher Priest
Bone Silence, Alastair Reynolds
The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Last Emperox, John Scalzi
Network Effect, Martha Wells
Fleet Elements, Walter Jon Williams
Interlibrary Loan, Gene Wolfe
Fantasy Novels
The Trouble with Peace, Joe Abercrombie
The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison
We Ride Upon Sticks, Quan Barry
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
The Book of Lamps and Banners, Elizabeth Hand
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, M. John Harrison
The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow
The Harpy, Megan Hunter
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson
Phoenix Extravagant, Yoon Ha Lee
The Blade Between, Sam J. Miller
A Children’s Bible, Lydia Millet
Utopia Avenue, David Mitchell
Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix
How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It, K.J. Parker
Mordew, Alex Pheby
Stormsong, C.L. Polk
The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk
Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
Creatures of Charm and Hunger, Molly Tanzer
By Force Alone, Lavie Tidhar
Or What You Will, Jo Walton
Comet Weather, Liz Williams
Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
First Novels
The Wall, Gautam Bhatia
Every Bone a Prayer, Ashley Blooms
The Twice-Drowned Saint (in A Sinister Quartet), C.S.E. Cooney
The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson
The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez
Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang
The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson
Stonefish, Scott R. Jones
The Unspoken Name, A.K. Larkwood
Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-Joo
Architects of Memory, Karen Osborne
Eartheater, Dolores Reyes
Little Eyes, Samanta Schweblin
The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart
Star Daughter, Shveta Thakrar
Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots
Love and Other Thought Experiments, Sophie Ward