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Well, today is the Hugo voting deadline, and I didn't QUITE make it through the last category I was wanting to. But I mostly did! Enough to feel capable of voting the category, at least.
So here's my Astounding Award For Best New Science Fiction Writer voting decisions.
1. Tasha Suri
I read her first book, Empire of Sand, and ADORED it. A delightful historical romantic fantasy, that's most of my fave genres all at once, and wonderfully put together! I was torn between voting for Suri and Tesh for #1, but because Suri's already in her second year of eligibility I decided to rank her first. Tesh will have another chance next year.
2. Emily Tesh
Tesh's first book, Silver in the Wood, is lovely and perfect and I loved it. Queer people and forest magic and folklore and history! Very good and I hope to be voting Tesh #1 next year!
3. Jenn Lyons
Look her book is like a zillion pages long, it's a lot and I just didn't have time to get through it what with all the other Hugos reading I had to do (and all the other reading I couldn't stop myself from doing). I read the first little bit of The Ruin of Kings and it was really promising though, I liked what I read, so I think she's worth ranking this high even if I haven't gotten a full picture of all her skills as a writer.
4. RF Kuang
I started reading The Poppy War and found it compelling but I was nervous about where it was going based on vague memories of things I'd heard about it before, so I googled it and then went NOPE THIS IS NOT FOR ME. Sorry Kuang, you're a very good writer but a book about a person becoming angrily and violently vengeful is not something I want to put in my eyeballs.
5. Nibedita Sen
Sen's Hugo packet had 3 short stories in it, and you know, they were fine, but that's about as much interest as I can muster.
6. Sam Hawke
I started reading the book that was included in the Hugo packet and just....did not care at all. So I gave up. Possibly if I'd given it more of a chance it would have perked up, it might just have a slow start, but oh well, my caprice was apparently in charge when I read this one.
So here's my Astounding Award For Best New Science Fiction Writer voting decisions.
1. Tasha Suri
I read her first book, Empire of Sand, and ADORED it. A delightful historical romantic fantasy, that's most of my fave genres all at once, and wonderfully put together! I was torn between voting for Suri and Tesh for #1, but because Suri's already in her second year of eligibility I decided to rank her first. Tesh will have another chance next year.
2. Emily Tesh
Tesh's first book, Silver in the Wood, is lovely and perfect and I loved it. Queer people and forest magic and folklore and history! Very good and I hope to be voting Tesh #1 next year!
3. Jenn Lyons
Look her book is like a zillion pages long, it's a lot and I just didn't have time to get through it what with all the other Hugos reading I had to do (and all the other reading I couldn't stop myself from doing). I read the first little bit of The Ruin of Kings and it was really promising though, I liked what I read, so I think she's worth ranking this high even if I haven't gotten a full picture of all her skills as a writer.
4. RF Kuang
I started reading The Poppy War and found it compelling but I was nervous about where it was going based on vague memories of things I'd heard about it before, so I googled it and then went NOPE THIS IS NOT FOR ME. Sorry Kuang, you're a very good writer but a book about a person becoming angrily and violently vengeful is not something I want to put in my eyeballs.
5. Nibedita Sen
Sen's Hugo packet had 3 short stories in it, and you know, they were fine, but that's about as much interest as I can muster.
6. Sam Hawke
I started reading the book that was included in the Hugo packet and just....did not care at all. So I gave up. Possibly if I'd given it more of a chance it would have perked up, it might just have a slow start, but oh well, my caprice was apparently in charge when I read this one.
