Hugo Reading for Nominations (2020 Books etc.)

[chomiji]

So, yeah, slow off the dime on this. Nominations are due March 19. Eeek!

I've read only a few eligible books during the past year, mostly by authors I knew I liked already (Martha Wells, Yoon Ha Lee). I made myself of list of possibles on Big South America River, on the basis of the Locus Recommended Reading List and a few "Best of 2020" review lists, and it's clearly too much to finish by then, even if I skip books that are volumes 2 or 3 of series I haven't been following.

Any recommendations? I just finished Piranesi (Susanna Clarke) and Pacific Storm (Linda Nagata) (... talk about style and mood whiplash!).

Comments

[ursula]

Have you read Kate Elliott's Unconquerable Sun? I think you'd like it.

Tochi Onyebuchi's short story "The Hurt Equations" in Robots and Revolution is one of those absolutely chilling near-future classic stories that rework your sense of what is already happening. It's also very funny.