{"id":5524,"date":"2014-07-31T13:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2014-07-31T13:17:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:17:36","slug":"hugo-awards-best-novella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/07\/31\/hugo-awards-best-novella\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Awards: Best Novella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe last major fiction award I still need to talk about: the best novella. A bit of a mixed bag this category, with stories that are in that awkward stage halfway between novel and short story. Indeed, at least one could&#8217;ve been published as a short novel in its own right. As with some other categories, the two struck through candidates I haven&#8217;t considered due to <a href=\"\/wissewords2\/2014\/06\/30\/the-hugo-awards-things-i-wont-consider-i\/\">reasons described in my first post<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo be honest, the remaining three stories were good but not spectacularly so, not nearly as good as some of the entries in the short story and novelette categories.\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean Press)<br \/>\nAs the title indicates, this is a Wild West retelling of the Snow White fairy tale. Well done.\n<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"\">Wakulla Springs<\/a>\u201d by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages (Tor.com, 10-2013)<br \/>\nThis is a great story about several generations of an African-American family living near the lake used to film Tarzan movies and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, but the fantastical element is minimal.\n<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2013\/09\/equoid\">Equoid<\/a>\u201d by Charles Stross (Tor.com, 09-2013)<br \/>\nA typically fun, manic Laundry story about unicorns.\n<\/li>\n<li><strike>The Butcher of Khardov by Dan Wells (Privateer Press)<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>\u201cThe Chaplain&#8217;s Legacy\u201d by Brad Torgersen (Analog, Jul-Aug 2013)<\/strike><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last major fiction award I still need to talk about: the best novella. A bit of a mixed bag this category, with stories that are in that awkward stage halfway between novel and short story. Indeed, at least one could&#8217;ve been published as a short novel in its own right. As with some other [&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-5524","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\/5524","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=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5526,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}