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)