Award Recommendations: Things I’m Eyeing for the Awards Season (Suggestions Welcome)
A.C. Wise and Sarah Pinsker suggested I put together a list of recommendations for the awards season (Nebula nominations are coming up or something). So, that’s what I’m going to do. For now, I’m only going to discuss six categories, as I don’t read often enough in the others to have a say yet (YET). Recommendations for any category, listed or otherwise, are more than welcome. Note: I’ve included links to interviews or discussions at The Skiffy and Fanty Show about some of the items (which may explain why I’m voting for many of these). Here goes: Novels: City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett (S&F Interview) Hurricane Fever by Tobias Buckell (S&F Interview) Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (S&F Interview) The Three by Sarah Lotz (S&F Interview) Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta (S&F interview forthcoming) Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter (S&F Interview) Into the Grey by Celine Kiernan (S&F Interview) Zero Sum Game by SL Huang (my review) Graphic Novels: Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson (episode forthcoming on S&F) Movies (narrowing this list is going to be difficult): Snowpiercer (may not be eligible due to weird release nonsense)(S&F Discussion) Interstellar (S&F Discussion) Guardians of the Galaxy (S&F Discussion) Big Hero 6 How to Train Your Dragon 2 Captain American: the Winter Soldier (S&F Discussion) Edge of Tomorrow (S&F Discussion) Jodorowsky’s Dune (WISB Review) Fancast: The Incomparable The Book was Better Doorway to the Hidden World Galactic Suburbia The Writer and the Critic The Three Hoarsemen The Skiffy and Fanty Show (duh) Fanwriter: Cora Buhlert Foz Meadows Liz Bourke Kameron Hurley (S&F Interview) Paul Weimer (his work on Skiffy and Fanty is worth an acknowledgment, I think) Fanzine: A Dribble of Ink Nerds of a Feather Bookworm Blues Ecdysis Semiprozine: The Book Smugglers Strange Horizons Related Work: Speculative Fiction 2013 (I’m totally biased because I’m editing the 2014 edition w/ Renay) So, what am I missing?