{"id":5379,"date":"2014-07-02T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T20:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2014-07-02T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T20:43:14","slug":"hugo-awards-best-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/07\/02\/hugo-awards-best-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Awards: Best Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nLet&#8217;s start with an easy one. The best novel award. Nominees are:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2014\/02\/ancillary-justice-ann-leckie\/\">Ancillary Justice<\/a><\/cite> by Ann Leckie<\/li>\n<li><cite>Neptune&#8217;s Brood<\/cite> by Charles Stross<\/li>\n<li><cite>Parasite<\/cite> by Mira Grant<\/li>\n<li><cite>Warbound<\/cite>, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Wheel of Time<\/cite> by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<a href=\"wissewords2\/2014\/06\/30\/the-hugo-awards-things-i-wont-consider-i\/\">As I said monday<\/a>, I won&#8217;t vote for either Correia or the Wheel of Time, so those fall off immediately. Of the three remaining novels I haven&#8217;t read Mira Grant&#8217;s <cite>Parasite<\/cite> yet, but I&#8217;m not sure reading it will change my voting. Tentatively my voting order will be:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><cite>Ancillary Justice<\/cite> by Ann Leckie<\/li>\n<li><cite>Neptune&#8217;s Brood<\/cite> by Charles Stross<\/li>\n<li><cite>Parasite<\/cite> by Mira Grant<\/li>\n<li>No Award<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n<cite>Ancillary Justice<\/cite> is head and shoulders above any of the other nominees, one of the two best novels published last year (<a href=\"\/books2\/2014\/01\/ascension-jacqueline-koyanagi\/\">the other<\/a>). The Charlie Stross was a good novel, but nothing special compared to Leckie and the same goes for Mira Grant&#8217;s entry. None of them would be an embarassment for the Hugos of course, so I&#8217;m happy to leave my order like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start with an easy one. The best novel award. Nominees are: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie Neptune&#8217;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&#8217;t vote for either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,22],"tags":[824],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-science-fiction","tag-hugo-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5381,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions\/5381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}