Award List
by wjw on January 14, 2014
It’s award nomination season, so I notice other writers’ blogs are listing all their works published in 2013 just in case their readers want to nominate them.
I’d like to follow suit, but the sad fact is, though I’ve been working right along, nothing of mine was published in 2013, all due to the vagaries of publishers’ schedules. (Though due to these same vagaries, a whole lot of stuff written over the past few years is going to appear in 2014, so yay!)
So I thought I’d let you all nominate for 2013. What should we all be reading? What should we nominate?
Let a hundred flowers bloom! Let a hundred schools of thought contend!
“No Others Are Genuine” by Gregory Frost. Came out in Asimov’s. Historical dark fantasy set in Chicago. Novelette. He put it up online in the SFWA forum.
As far as I can tell, during 2013 I didn’t read any fiction printed in 2013. Hmm…
I enjoyed:
Graphic Novel: Saga Vol 2
Podcast: Welcome to Nightvale
Podcast: The Writer and The Critic
Unfortunately, I didn’t read any scifi novels printed in 2013 and I’m a year behind with Asimov’s and Analogs. Hoping others will have some tips.
It’s a good question. I can nominate for the Hugos as I picked up a membership for last year’s WorldCon, but I have no clue as to what I should nominate. It’s much easier to just vote on what others pick, I guess.
Books I liked published in 2013. I have no idea if they meet eligibility requirements:
Guy Gavriel Kay, “River of Stars”
Will McIntosh, “Love Minus Eighty”
Sofia Samatar, “A Stranger in Olondria”
James Treadwell, “Anarchy”
Robert Charles Wilson, “Burning Paradise”
Gene Wolfe, “The Land Across”
I encourage everyone to read Anne Leckie’s “Ancillary Justice” and then to nominate it for the Best Novel category. Her protagonist is a warship, a unit of soldiers carried on that warship, individual members of that unit – well, it’s complicated and innovative and she pulls it off splendidly.
Now I’m off to build a time machine and go stuff last year’s ballot box in favor of “Throne of the Crescent Moon”.
Ian Tregillis, “Something More Than Night.”
You’re not going to read much else like it, I guarantee.
Several of the stories in the anthology “Old Mars” (Martin and Dozois, editors) are worth of awards.
“Abaddon’s Gate,” James S.A. Corey
Oz is right about Greg Frost’s No Others Are Genuine being a terrific novelette.
In the novel department, I was impressed by:
A Stranger in Olondria – Sofia Samatar
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker
The Land Across – Gene Wolfe
Does this mean that “Heaven in Flames” will be published in 2014? Please…?
Alas, “Heaven in Flames” isn’t about to see print. In 2014, anyway.
It’s going to be short fiction. A lot of it.
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