Other things being equal, I wold have been looking forward to Eastercon at the end of this week - a welcome return to the Birmingham Hilton where I have had various good times over the years. The last few times I attended Eastercon I got (not very reluctantly) roped into counting the votes for the BSFA Awards; the voting deadline this year has now ( Read more... )

The BSFA short list is out!

The candidates for Best Novel were 5th, 15th, 18th, 24th, 25th, and 36th on my previous list.

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LibraryThing

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Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Ruin
26,433
4.10
195
3.95

Tade Thompson - The Rosewater Insurrection
3,788
4.05
75
3.78

Emma Newman - Atlas Alone
3,457
4.07
66
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Always conscious that my own tastes are not everyone's, I had a look at the 27 works which are on the long list for this year's BSFA Award. I must say that the quality of the art is in almost all cases fantastic. It's interesting to note that there are two exbibitions on the long list, one "A New Life in the Village" by Cedric Mizero, which I have ( Read more... )

The BSFA Long List is out. Here are the 46 Best Novel nominees, ranked by the product of their number of owners on Goodreads and LibraryThing.

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LibraryThing

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The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
367,235
4.23
1,433
4.14

The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E Harrow
107,406
4.16
416
4.21

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