The nominations for this year’s Hugo award for best novel are:
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen; HarperVoyager UK)
Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)
For once, I’ve read all of these. The Scalzi, Stross and Doctorow stories fall more under science fiction. Well, more or less. Anathem is very hard to place, and I’m willing to call it “speculative”, and not try to pin it down any further. The Graveyard Book is definitely fantasy. So I’m better informed than in [...]
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Terry Prattchet (@terryandrob):
Okay, that’s it. We’ve just reached the end of Unseen Academicals. THE END. Now all we’ve got to do is go back and do all the back-filling.
Unseen Academicals is the 37th (yes, you read that correctly) Discworld novel, and is scheduled to be released on October 8. The fact that I have read all the previous 36 might indicate just how talented Pratchett is.
Hugo Awards (@TheHugoAwards):
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