Astounding Award final ballot 2021

[nwhyte]

In some past years, the Campbell Award, now the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, has presented the conscientious voter with difficulties, due to the different formats of submission from different authors - how can you judge the talent displayed in three short stories against a fantasy blockbuster? This year, fortunately, all of the finalists

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[yiskah]

I am reading the Larkwood right now, and totally agree - found it a bid hard-going at the start but I am loving it now close to the end) and not sure how I will cope for the next few months until the second one comes out.

Also feel absolutely the same way about the Lyons books - I find them really quite poorly written (and the fact that Lyons is evidently very much in love with her protag is quite painful to read). That said, I am sticking with the series so far.

[nwhyte]

Hah, nice to hear from you - by coincidence I just started The Ice Cream Army!