My review of “Throne of the Crescent Moon” by Saladin Ahmed is here.
My review of “2312” by Kim Stanley Robinson is here.
My review of “Redshirts: A Novel With Three Codas” by John Scalzi is here.
I want to make a couple of quick notes about the other two novels nominated for the 2013 Hugo Awards.
The other two novels nominated are “Blackout” by Mira Grant (Orbit) and “Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance” by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen). I have not read either one yet, primarily because they’re both part of a series of books and I haven’t yet read any of the preceding novels either.
“Blackout” is the third book in the Newflesh Trilogy, an urban horror story about the world after the zombie apocalypse and the replacement of the traditional news media with social media on steroids. I have started reading “Feed” (on a trip a paperback copy was in my backpack as my non-electronic reading) and it grabbed my attention hard. But time constraints have prevented me from getting back to it yet and on to “Deadline” and “Blackout”. Sorry, Seanan!
“Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance” is apparently Book Fourteen of the Vorkosigan Saga. I have not read any of the previous thirteen books, but I know many friends in fandom who are huge fans of the series and of Ms. Bujold. The fact that Ms. Bujold has won six Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards is a testament to the quality of her writing.
The awards ceremony will be September 1st at LoneStarCon 3. (Final nag, if you want to vote, you can do so online, you have to be an attending or supporting member of the con, and the deadline is on Wednesday, July 31st, at 11:59 PM Central Time.)
Last year, Worldcon in Chicago tried to live stream the Hugo Awards (with John Scalzi as Master of Ceremonies), but the program got cut off by an errant DRM-bot after clips from the Best Theatrical Presentations were shown. LoneStarCon will live stream the ceremony again this year, hopefully with better advance communications with UStream and their bots.
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