Not interested in your bullshit

[ellestra]

So the Hugo Awards happened yesterday (here is liveblog and hopefully they'll put the whole ceremony somewhere because it was hilarious). I watched the ceremony and Connie Willis and Dalek killed everyone and it was great despite all the No awards (it ended with the more No awards that were given out last evening than in all the years before

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[novin_ha]

I feel really bad for all the people who should have been on the shortlists but for those shenanigans.

Have you read any of the nominees / near-nominees? Are you planning to? I've read Ann Leckie and I've read good things about The Goblin Emperor as well as City of Stairs (and the winner too, ofc) but I'm not sure if they're my thing.

(Meanwhile, it has been a very interesting month, publication-wise, with new Kate Elliott and new Jemisin - both of which I'd had preordered for monthsssss. I look forward to next year's noms!)

[ellestra]

I feel it is deeply unfair. I'm glad that grrm organised the Alphie thing but it shouldn't have been necessary.

I didn't. I have Leckie's books on my kindle but I haven't got to them yet. I planned to this summer but I haven't been able to concentrate on any serious books (I tried but ended up giving up). I've been only reading fluff in past couple of months. And short stories - I read all Jemisin short stories from the Thousand Kingdom universe (I haven't touched The Fifth Season yet though). Maybe after I finish the latest Laundry novel (it has superheroes).

[novin_ha]

I hope you enjoy Leckie! I really did.

The Fifth Season appeals to me more than Kingdoms :)

What fluff did you end up reading? I spent the whole month of June reading mostly romance novels by Sherry Thomas...

[ellestra]

I hope so - everyone seems to love it. And I hope I'll like 5th Season - for some reason I couldn't get into the Dreamblood books