Hugo notes

[kaberett]

To be added to as I go along...

Best Novel (Stross yet to go):
1. Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie -- it is a very long time since I last had to immediately reread a book because I couldn't settle to anything else. So so SO good. SO GOOD.
2. the Mira Grant: I thought anything written under than name would be too creepy for me, but (1) apparently not and (2) adoradog. To the extent that, slightly to my surprise, I appear to be intending to purchase the full work. Having read the whole thing - yes, it's kind of predictable, but I still like what it's doing with ethics & identity.
3. Neptune's Brood, Charles Stross -- not sufficiently grabbed to want to read the whole thing, but enjoyed as far as I got. Peut-etre it becomes more interesting as you go along? But I am not inclined to buy the rest...
4. Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan etc -- kind of pulpy in a way I am thoroughly not in the mood for. I appear prone to be irritated by inaccurate geology, so I suppose it's a pity that it pretty much starts with implausible geology.
4. No award
Unranked: The White Supremacist -- nope nope nope nope nope [i.e. I got two pages into the first book of the trilogy before I decided I didn't want my face getting stuck that way, and also I liked lower heart rates than I was experiencing).

Comments

[kaberett]

hah, yeah. if it helps any, it took me a while as well, which I rather suspect is because the neuter pronoun is one I am used not only to being strongly gendered, but to strongly gendering me; I suspect I'd have been less unsettled by it if it'd been a pronoun I'm accustomed to using as neuter. (interestingly this is not a universal thing -- I appear to have hit the point where my subconscious assumption is that, in the absence of other evidence, men have cunts. SO.)