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Back to Reality
May. 26th, 2009 09:41 amI'm back up in Chicago after my refreshing weekend downstate. While downstate, I stopped at Sleepy Creek Vineyards and picked up a half-case of assorted varieties. It's a nice place.
I am a voter for this year's Hugos. Thanks to John Scalzi and the minions at Anticipation, I received an electronic packet with 4 of the 5 nominated novels. I've purchased and read three of them already, and one of the ones I haven't purchased I started to read electronically last night. (You can guess already that the novel I've not seen will be listed 5th, if at all, on my ballot.)
So, three of the four novels on my short-list are straight-up action SF novels, and all really good. (Scalzi's Zoe's Tale, Doctorow's Little Brother, and Stross' Saturn's Children.) The fourth work is Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, which is neither straight-up, action or SF (it's a fantasy). So here's my problem - how do you decide what's better - an apple or an orange?
I am a voter for this year's Hugos. Thanks to John Scalzi and the minions at Anticipation, I received an electronic packet with 4 of the 5 nominated novels. I've purchased and read three of them already, and one of the ones I haven't purchased I started to read electronically last night. (You can guess already that the novel I've not seen will be listed 5th, if at all, on my ballot.)
So, three of the four novels on my short-list are straight-up action SF novels, and all really good. (Scalzi's Zoe's Tale, Doctorow's Little Brother, and Stross' Saturn's Children.) The fourth work is Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, which is neither straight-up, action or SF (it's a fantasy). So here's my problem - how do you decide what's better - an apple or an orange?
