Contrarius+ Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 5 hours ago, Darth Richard II said: Eh, is City of Blades eligible? I could have sworn it was on the long list for last year. City of Blades is eligible. It's one of the top contenders on the SFWA list right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 17 hours ago, Darth Richard II said: Eh, is City of Blades eligible? I could have sworn it was on the long list for last year. It doesn't seem to be on the 2016 longlist. I think it just gets in by a week for the 2017 awards, the publication date is 7th January 2016. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheep the Evicted Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 On 12/7/2016 at 2:42 AM, Darth Richard II said: This has, for me anyway, been a stupid good year for books(which is why the absolute SHIT that got nominated/won in the Goodreads awards baffles me). I'll have to go back and look at my goodreads. Why, goodreads awards have always been awful, its always been a popularity contest for teenage girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 It hasn't always been this bad. Usually at least a few good books make it to the finals. The real problem is they don't have a separate catagory for urban/paranormal romance so it gets shoved in with the rest of the SFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beniowa Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Here are some of my favorite short stories this year; Novella “Penric and the Shaman”, Lois McMaster Bujold “Penric’s Mission”, Lois McMaster Bujold “The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson “The Ballad of Black Tom”, Victor LaValle “The Devil You Know”, K.J. Parker Novelette “Checkerboard Planet”, Eleanor Arnason “Judgment of Gods and Monsters”, Kameron Hurley “Discards”, David D. Levine “The Maiden Thief”, Melissa Marr Short Story “The Story of Kao Yu”, Peter S. Beagle “The Robot’s Guide to Online Dating”, Aiden Doyle “Big Thrull and the Askin’ Man”, Max Gladstone “Natural Skin”, Alyssa Wong (Lightspeed) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamSongs Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Georgia's public libraries continue to starve me for adult science fiction. The only novels available are YA; remind me to gift my local branch with a copy of The Call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 2017 Hugo Awards Nomination Period Open Quote Nominations are now open for the Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, to be presented at Worldcon 75, August 9-13, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. You are eligible to nominate if you have an attending or supporting membership for Worldcon 75, MidAmeriCon II (the 2016 Worldcon), or Worldcon 76 (the 2018 Worldcon) by January 31, 2015. The nomination period closes March 17, 2017 at at 11:59 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time. More information on the Hugo Awards can be found at the Worldcon 75 site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valandil Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Bakker, obviously. There is no other choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Oh I dunno I can think of 9 or 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LugaJetboyGirl Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 For Dramatic Performance, I highly recommend Cleverman. It's an Australian tv show that came out in 2016. It's on Netflix, so no excuses, go watch it! It's a dystopia that tackles the fraught history between Aborigines and white Australians (think District 9), and it turns Aborigine Dreamtime stories into a kind of superhero story. It's got great character development and focus on family interactions, creepy monsters, a very authentic-seeming grounding in social-history. WETA was involved, Sundance TV, and Ser Jorah Mormont is in it! It was fricking awesome. Here's the trailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrarius+ Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Too Like the Lightning, people. Fabulous book. And I say that even though I typically despise serialized novels (a book in a series that doesn't have a complete intra-book story arc). Read it. Vote for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of Godsgrace Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I also voted for Bakker and Ada Palmer. Also for Sofia Samatar and Yoon Ha Lee. Still haven't chosen the fifth novel. Emmi Itaranta? Lavie Tidhar? Probably one of those two. I have longlists for short fiction categories, but I still didn't make final decisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrarius+ Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 7 hours ago, Bastard of Godsgrace said: I also voted for Bakker and Ada Palmer. Also for Sofia Samatar and Yoon Ha Lee. Emmi Itaranta? Lavie Tidhar? Probably one of those two. Still haven't chosen fifth novel. I have longlists for short fiction categories, but I still didn't make final decisions. I'm planning to put Ninefox Gambit on my list as well. I haven't read the Samatar yet, but I loved Stranger in Olondria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Nebula Awards Ballot Announced BSFA Shortlist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 I shall remain eternally baffled by the love All The Birds in the Sky gets. I thought that book was terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Rhinos Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 So Tor.com locked down five of the six nominees for novella. It certainly looks like their attempt to fill that niche has been popular. Those BSFA artwork nominations are terrible. Who the heck are voting for those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Valley Posted February 21, 2017 Author Share Posted February 21, 2017 Free access to the stuff on the Nebula list! http://www.bogireadstheworld.com/nebula-nominations-with-free-reads/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 10 hours ago, Lord of Rhinos said: Those BSFA artwork nominations are terrible. Who the heck are voting for those? I've heard in the past that there was a rule that short story nominations for the BSFA awards needed a minimum of three nominees and without that rule there would have been nominees with just two votes. I'd imagine the artwork could have a similar issue where there's a relatively small number of people nominating but a huge range of artwork that could be nominated so a small number of people could influence it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrarius+ Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 On 2/20/2017 at 11:11 PM, Darth Richard II said: I shall remain eternally baffled by the love All The Birds in the Sky gets. I thought that book was terrible. I didn't think it was terrible, but I'm certainly not gonna put it on my ballot. I'm with ya on the bafflement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Well, ok, maybe terrible is a bit of an overstatement, but the whole thing rubbed me the wrong way. It was one of those look at how clever and how much stuff I know books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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