Hugo Short Stories

[jimhines]

First off, happy book day to my friend Lisa Shearin, whose book All Spell Breaks Loose [Amazon | B&N | Mysterious Galaxy] is out today. And last week marked the release of Mira Grant’s Blackout [Amazon | B&N | Mysterious Galaxy].

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This year will be my first Worldcon, and the first time I’ve voted in the Hugos. I’ve been diligently downloading and

Comments

[calico_reaction]

I thought the same thing about Resnick's story regarding the metaphor for sexuality, but you put it in plainer words, which is better than I did. :) I'm also glad that I'm not the only one who doesn't feel the story rings with truth. I thought it was trying way too hard...

I splurged and bought a supporting membership, and I'm tracking all my reviews for everything here if you or any of your other readers are interested. I finished posting my short story reviews last week, and I'm moving onto novelettes next!

As for your thoughts here, I have to say I agree with you. Cool to see more opinions of these stories out there!

[jimhines]

Thanks for the link! I had seen that you were posting reviews, but wanted to wait to read your thoughts until after I got through the stories.

It seems like a lot of our thoughts overlapped. I'll be curious to see if that happens again with the next category.

[calico_reaction]

Just started novelettes today. The story I read (I won't say which yet) reminded me why I stopped getting subscriptions to short story magazines. :)

[jimhines]

Oh, now I'm curious! I've read 3 of the 5 so far.

[akiko]

I'm curious, too! I have a guess, because there was one that I thought was very meh.