Continuing my posts on this year's BSFA shortlists (and again, this isn’t a set of recommendations, it’s confessing my personal quirks). Here I got two of my nominations on the ballot; the other two that I nominated unsuccessfully were “Rocket Man” by Louis Evans (Interzone, March 2020) and “A Voyage to Queensthroat” by Anya Johanna DeNiro (Strange ( Read more... )

Following on from my post on the long list, here are the Goodreads and LibraryThing ownership and ratings stats for the shortlist.

Goodreads
LibraryThing

owners
av rating
owners
av rating

American War - Omar El Akkad
70396
3.83
632
3.86

Borne - Jeff VanderMeer
50713
3.91
565
3.9

Gather the Daughters - Jennie Melamed
16643
3.66
130
3.48
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I've been blogging my reaction to the BSFA shortlists for about a decade now, and this is the first time I can remember feeling that all the shortlisted novels were books I would like to see winning - it's been a very difficult choice. Also worth noting that this is the first time ever that the shortlist for Best Novel does not include a single ( Read more... )