Hugo nominees 2010

Yet again I attempt to read and consider (and maybe blog some thoughts about) the Hugo nominees. This year's another doozie of a great-looking list.

Best novel:

• Boneshaker, Cherie Priest
• The City & The City, China Miéville
• Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson
• Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente
• Wake, Robert J. Sawyer
• The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi

Best novella:

• “Act One”, Nancy Kress
• The God Engines, John Scalzi
• “Palimpsest”, Charles Stross
• Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow
• “Vishnu at the Cat Circus”, Ian McDonald
• The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker

Best novelette:

• “Eros, Philia, Agape”, Rachel Swirsky
• The Island”, Peter Watts
• “It Takes Two”, Nicola Griffith
• “One of Our Bastards is Missing”, Paul Cornell
• “Overtime”, Charles Stross
• “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast”, Eugie Foster

Best short story:

• “The Bride of Frankenstein”, Mike Resnick
• “Bridesicle”, Will McIntosh
• “The Moment”, Lawrence M. Schoen
• “Non-Zero Probabilities”, N.K. Jemisin
• “Spar”, Kij Johnson

This post's theme word is losel, "one that is worthless." I hope this list contains no losels... though it will probably contain losers, unless there is an n-way tie in every category.

Spam spam spam!

I just got my first spam in maybe 6 months. How interesting! I couldn't find anything particularly strange about it to indicate how it had snuck through my several filters.


This post's theme word: wildcatter, "one who drills for oil speculatively," or "one who promotes an unsafe or fraudulent enterprise," or "a worker who takes part in a wildcat strike: a sudden strike not authorized by the labor union. "