Like everyone else with a blog and a Hugo vote, I’m posting my Hugo noms. Final deadline for nominations is March 10th, don’t forget. First, a confession – I don’t have much time to read anymore. I’ve never been a very fast reader, I simply had a lot of free time, which can be deceptively similar from the outside. But the past couple years I’ve taken on other projects and a serious relationship, both of which have cut into my time sharply, so I barely even have time to read the two-books-per-month for the local SF/F Book Club. Which means that the amount of novels I read is already low, and the number I read in the same year they’ve been published is astonishingly low. Therefore the majority of my nominations are more aspirational nominations than actual “I read this and I think it’s amazing and it was just published so it’s still eligible for the award I think it deserves!” nominations. They are books that I want to be good, and if enough people think they were then I’ll get a copy to read with the Hugo Packet (which we read in our Book Club every year) and I can actually make an informed decision then. :)
2012 Hugo Nominations List
2012 Hugo Nominations List
2012 Hugo Nominations List
Like everyone else with a blog and a Hugo vote, I’m posting my Hugo noms. Final deadline for nominations is March 10th, don’t forget. First, a confession – I don’t have much time to read anymore. I’ve never been a very fast reader, I simply had a lot of free time, which can be deceptively similar from the outside. But the past couple years I’ve taken on other projects and a serious relationship, both of which have cut into my time sharply, so I barely even have time to read the two-books-per-month for the local SF/F Book Club. Which means that the amount of novels I read is already low, and the number I read in the same year they’ve been published is astonishingly low. Therefore the majority of my nominations are more aspirational nominations than actual “I read this and I think it’s amazing and it was just published so it’s still eligible for the award I think it deserves!” nominations. They are books that I want to be good, and if enough people think they were then I’ll get a copy to read with the Hugo Packet (which we read in our Book Club every year) and I can actually make an informed decision then. :)