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1Hatgirl
Did you love The Hugo Award 2012 Short Story Nominees? Hate them? Seen an interesting article about the awards?
Discuss it all here! Spoilers abound, enter at your own risk...
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2omegar24
so the list i felt was a mix of good and bad.
the one i intend to vote as the best was "The Paper Menagerie", by Ken Liu the story had tears in my eyes.
followed closely by "Movement", by Nancy Fulda. which was an intresting story because of its viewpoint.
third was "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees", by E. Lily Yu. which is an intresting concept, but seems to lack a plot, and kind of just ends.
In fourth place, "The Homecoming", by Mike Resnick, and even then i am not sure whether this will come after or before no award!
and in fifth "The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City", by John Scalzi. this will come after no award. i'm sorry but it is an April fools joke, and while funny, it is not a good example of either the authors writing ability, or the genre as a whole. it is also not very good!
the one i intend to vote as the best was "The Paper Menagerie", by Ken Liu the story had tears in my eyes.
followed closely by "Movement", by Nancy Fulda. which was an intresting story because of its viewpoint.
third was "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees", by E. Lily Yu. which is an intresting concept, but seems to lack a plot, and kind of just ends.
In fourth place, "The Homecoming", by Mike Resnick, and even then i am not sure whether this will come after or before no award!
and in fifth "The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City", by John Scalzi. this will come after no award. i'm sorry but it is an April fools joke, and while funny, it is not a good example of either the authors writing ability, or the genre as a whole. it is also not very good!
3Hatgirl
Well, my vote went to "The Paper Menagerie", and it won category. Yay me!
I didn't like "Movement" at all - I get that the author was trying to write from the POV of someone with a disjointed viewpoint, but... the result was messy. And it wasn't very SF-y at all.
I loved the start of "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees", but it sort of meandered at the end.
"The Homecoming" So surprised this got nominated. You really get walloped over the head with the metaphor.
"The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City" is funny, but not my kind of funny. Still a good type of the kind of funny it is, though. Wait. What? Did that make sense? Anyway... love the Mark Reads version of it!
I didn't like "Movement" at all - I get that the author was trying to write from the POV of someone with a disjointed viewpoint, but... the result was messy. And it wasn't very SF-y at all.
I loved the start of "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees", but it sort of meandered at the end.
"The Homecoming" So surprised this got nominated. You really get walloped over the head with the metaphor.
"The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City" is funny, but not my kind of funny. Still a good type of the kind of funny it is, though. Wait. What? Did that make sense? Anyway... love the Mark Reads version of it!
4Scorbet
Hmm, my opinion on these appears to be surprisingly similar to Hatgirl's.
I'd agree that The Paper Menagerie was the best of the lot. (It's Qingming against next week incidentally).
As I already said on the Nebula Nominees thread, I preferred The Speed of Dark much more than Movement Nancy Fulda for what it was trying to do.
I also felt that the The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees began well but petered out into nothing.
The Homecoming wasn't particularly interesting.
The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City is not my type of funny either. (Yes, I do have a type of funny).
I'd agree that The Paper Menagerie was the best of the lot. (It's Qingming against next week incidentally).
As I already said on the Nebula Nominees thread, I preferred The Speed of Dark much more than Movement Nancy Fulda for what it was trying to do.
I also felt that the The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees began well but petered out into nothing.
The Homecoming wasn't particularly interesting.
The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City is not my type of funny either. (Yes, I do have a type of funny).
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