{"id":5482,"date":"2014-07-20T15:56:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T20:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2014-07-20T15:56:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T20:56:35","slug":"hugo-awards-novelettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/07\/20\/hugo-awards-novelettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Awards: Novelettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nNovelette is one of those categories that seem largely unnecessary to me: too long for a short story, too short for a novella, what&#8217;s the point here other than length? Can anybody really tell the difference between a short story and a novelette or at the other end, between it and a novella? Better split this category up between the other two and be done with it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, since it still exists, let&#8217;s take a look at the candidates:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strike>\u201cThe Exchange Officers\u201d by Brad Torgersen (Analog, Jan-Feb 2013)<\/strike><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Lady Astronaut of Mars\u201d by Mary Robinette Kowal (maryrobinettekowal.com \/ Tor.com, 09-2013)<\/li>\n<li><strike>\u201cOpera Vita Aeterna\u201d by Vox Day (The Last Witchking, Marcher Lord Hinterlands)<\/strike><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling\u201d by Ted Chiang (Subterranean, Fall 2013)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Waiting Stars\u201d by Aliette de Bodard (The Other Half of the Sky, Candlemark &#038; Gleam)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThe two entries I struck through I won&#8217;t judge, <a href=\"\/wissewords2\/2014\/06\/30\/the-hugo-awards-things-i-wont-consider-i\/\">as I explained before<\/a>, leaving three candidates. Below I&#8217;ve listed them in the order I&#8217;ll vote for them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/aliettedebodard.com\/short-stories\/the-waiting-stars\/\">The Waiting Stars<\/a>\u201d &#8212; Aliette de Bodard<br \/>\nAn excellent slice of Banksian space opera, a story of love, family and two incompatible views of the world.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2013\/09\/the-lady-astronaut-of-mars\">The Lady Astronaut of Mars<\/a>\u201d &#8212; Mary Robinette Kowal<br \/>\nA retired astronaut on Mars, in an alternative history where an asteroid landing on Washington DC in the early fifties meant a much strong space programme, is asked to go on one last mission to a newly discovered extrasolar planet, but it would meaning leaving her husband behind to die, as he only has a year left to live. This is an unabashedly emotionally manipulative story, in that the dilemma at the heart of it does not make sense &#8212; why not wait a year if she&#8217;s the only one who can undertake the mission, why insist on her having to go right now&#8211; but the truth at the core of it, of watching a loved one, a husband, in the final stages of a terminal disease with all that entails, that truth is real.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/subterraneanpress.com\/magazine\/fall_2013\/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang\">The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling<\/a>\u201d &#8212; Ted Chiang<br \/>\nA story in which Chiang draws parallels between the introduction of literacy in a tribal society and the near future takeup of almost perfect lifelogging and recall software. Not entirely convincing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAll three stories are good in their own right, but the Aliette de Bodard story stands out head and shoulders for me. I definately need to read more of her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelette is one of those categories that seem largely unnecessary to me: too long for a short story, too short for a novella, what&#8217;s the point here other than length? Can anybody really tell the difference between a short story and a novelette or at the other end, between it and a novella? Better split [&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":[1950,824,1951,179],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-science-fiction","tag-aliette-de-bodard","tag-hugo-awards","tag-mary-robinette-kowal","tag-ted-chiang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482","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=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions\/5483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}