sci-fi award winners

[snugglekitty]

So apparently Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell won the Hugo this year.

It was deserved. If you haven't read it, and you like any of the following thematic elements, you should. Snark, comedy of manners, the occult, the fey, folklore.

This year's Lambda sci-fi award was won by The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley.

I haven't read that. Apparently it's set in the same world as Kirith Kirin, which I had out from the library for several months, but didn't read. Time to try it again.

Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold won the Nebula. I haven't even started the series, and I'm very ashamed. I just wasn't sure she'd do well with fantasy, and I didn't want that to diminish my love of her sci fi, if applicable.

I intend to remedy my errors. Anyway, I thought that those who, like me, had lost track of who was winning what, might find this useful.

Edit: As per woodwardiocom, the first book is actually not Victoriana, but still has the comedy-of-manners quality I like in Victorian literature and its descendents in the sci fi/fantasy world.

Comments

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

-Am reading JS&MN now, and quite enjoying it. (Though I will nit-pick and point out that it's set during the reign of George the Third, not Victoria.)

Details, details...

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

I should give you the title of Official NitPicker. But I fear that would only encourage you. :)

Re: Details, details...

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

I should give you the title of Official NitPicker.

-I actually try to avoid it, most of the time. Failed to do so here, alas.

Re: Details, details...

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

You nitpick me on stuff to do with genre fiction, and coraline nitpicks me on my typos. But that's okay. :) You're both usually right and I try not to take it personally.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

I try not to take it personally.

-You can be certain I don't intend it personally (given how much I admire you).

[catya.livejournal.com]

I just finished Paladin of Souls - it's excellent :)

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

And the Campbell went to my good friend Elizabeth Bear's "Hammered." I wish you were into sci-fi/cyberpunk at all, because her sentence-level work is beautiful. I'm not into cyberpunk at all and I love it.

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

You so silly!!! Why do you always think I'm not into sci fi or cyberpunk? I've read everything Gibson's ever written, plus _Distraction_ and _Chimera_. And, you told me to read that book last year, and I did! And I told you I liked it!

*sticks tongue out*

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

Oh, huh! "Scardown" is out, and "Worldwired" is out this fall. It looks like she'll be releasing a book every six months for the next couple years. (Her next series is fantasy, I believe.)

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

Yes, I want to read Scardown but the library doesn't have it yet and I am broke. So I'll have to wait, because what I really wanted was the new Liaden chapbook compendium, so I bought that instead.

How on earth can she write a book every six months? Or did she write them all already and is just releasing them now? Enlighten me, oh wise friend of the author!

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

She had a backlog of a few, and it takes her about six months to write most of her books, and she writes while revising others, as far as I can tell. Also, she's really, really determined.

[aillecat.livejournal.com]

As far as Paladin of Souls, I've been avoiding it for a similar reason, plus I'm WAY too attached to Miles.