very brief Hugo thoughts

[cahn]

Argh, it's almost the end of nomination time and I was totally going to make a post and never did!

Best Novel
A Memory Called Empire (Martine)
Ninth House (Bardugo)
Raven Tower (Leckie)
...that's all I can think of right now, any other thoughts?

Best Novelette
For He Can Creep (Carroll) (I expected the title to only be tangentially related but I was happily surprised!) (thanks ambyr)
Dave's Head (Palmer) - I always love Palmer's short work, and this one I think is her best yet. (Also, for anyone who has read or will read this, I would like to talk about what is going on. (I think I have figured out most of what's going on except what exactly IS in the things.) (from psocoptera)

Best Short Story
Compassionate Simulation (Swirsky, Lee). Content note: abuse. ...This one hit me really hard. (I think this one is from psocoptera)

Best Related Work
hamsterwoman pointed out that we can nominate the article about John M. Ford in Slate by which I of course mean not only the article but the work described in that article of bringing together people so that his stuff can be republished! What a great idea!!

Comments

[rosefox]

The Pinsker basically predicted the current moment, except very very slightly worse, plus a generation, all through the lens of making and experiencing music and what it means to do that as people flee the dangerous but vivid real world for the safe but flattened virtual world. It's got a lot of hope in it for a book set in the aftermath of a pandemic. (Emphasis on aftermath—there's mentions of loss and everyone is carrying some trauma, but it's not a horror novel.) I loved it, and right now I want to give a copy of it to every musician I know.

[cahn]

Ohhhh that sounds lovely, I read the Pinsker story about the generational ship that was up for the Hugos a year or two ago, and my thought on that was that I liked it but Needs More Music :) (The music was absolutely the best part of that story.) So this seems like what I am looking for :D