2014 Hugos, Voting For Edition

Novels

I give up - Larry Correia's Warbound is too much of a slog for me. Much like the Hugo-award-winning Windup Girl (which I despised) my problems with the book are historical and fictional. Fictional in that I don't give a damn about any of the characters (especially the whiny-ass industrialist Whats-His-Face) and historical in that FDR, a man who spent his entire political career pushing against segregation, is now going to segregate people with magical powers. I'm also not even going to attempt Wheel of Time.

My novel ballot (in order):

Ancillary Justice
Neptune's Brood
Parasite
Warbound
blank (not going to "no award" in this category, also not going to vote for something I've not read.)

Novelettes

Ted Chiang is a bit off his game this year. That story was good but not great. The Torgersen story was pretty good, and nice in that it created dramatic tension in a situation where the characters were not in any physical danger. I enjoyed the de Bodard story a lot as well. Vox Day's offering clearly doesn't belong in this list, except as the failure mode of clever.

My Novelette ballot (in order):

The Lady Astronaut of Mars
The Waiting Stars
The Exchange Officers
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
No Award