How I would vote now: 2017 Hugo Award (Best Novel)

The Nominees All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Deaths’ End by Cixin Liu Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer The Actual Results How I Would Have Voted Explanation If there’s… Continue reading How I would vote now: 2017 Hugo Award (Best Novel)

How I would vote now: 2020 Hugo Award (Best Novel)

The Nominees The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Middlegame by Seanan McGuire Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Actual Results How I Would Have Voted… Continue reading How I would vote now: 2020 Hugo Award (Best Novel)

Why books written by mothers are better than books written by childless women

I never know which posts of mine China Mike Glyer is going to pick up for his pixel scroll, or whatever he calls the daily bucket of chum that he feeds the folks over at File 770 (the ones who aren’t Chinese bots, anyway). I’ve written at much greater length about my 2022 reading resolution… Continue reading Why books written by mothers are better than books written by childless women

Reading Resolution Update: January

My 2022 reading resolution: Read or DNF every novel that has won a Hugo or a Nebula award, and acquire all the good ones. I had expected to DNF a lot of these books, but I was a little dismayed at how terrible they are. Or rather, how some of them can be so well-written… Continue reading Reading Resolution Update: January