Let’s start with an easy one. The best novel award. Nominees are:
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross
- Parasite by Mira Grant
- Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia
- The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
As I said monday, I won’t vote for either Correia or the Wheel of Time, so those fall off immediately. Of the three remaining novels I haven’t read Mira Grant’s Parasite yet, but I’m not sure reading it will change my voting. Tentatively my voting order will be:
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross
- Parasite by Mira Grant
- No Award
Ancillary Justice is head and shoulders above any of the other nominees, one of the two best novels published last year (the other). The Charlie Stross was a good novel, but nothing special compared to Leckie and the same goes for Mira Grant’s entry. None of them would be an embarassment for the Hugos of course, so I’m happy to leave my order like this.
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