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wrongquestions.blogspot.com - 7/18/2009
The 2009 Hugo Awards: The Best Novel Shortlist, Part 2
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[part 1 here]By the time I got around to reading Cory Doctorow's Little Brother I'd developed something of a complex about the book. That'll happen when every single thing you read about a novel that is, by any yardstick of critical exposure and fannish attention, the genre novel of 2008 only ...
punkadiddle.blogspot.com - 7/18/2009
Hugos 2009
— punkadiddle.blogspot.com — Dear Science Fiction Fandom I wanted to have a word about the Hugos. Science Fiction Fandom, these... are your awards: the shortlists chosen and voted for by you. And because I too am a fan (though without Hugo voting privileges) they are my awards. ... (more) Hugos 2009

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wrongquestions.blogspot.com - 7/18/2009
The 2009 Hugo Awards: The Best Novel Shortlist, Part 1
— wrongquestions.blogspot.com — I have a shocking confession to make: I did not read all of the best novel Hugo... nominees before the July 3rd voting deadline. I have an even more shocking confession to make: this was not because I didn't have the time to read these novels, but ... (more) The 2009 Hugo Awards: The Best Novel Shortlist, Part 1

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vectoreditors.wordpress.com - 7/21/2009
On Hugos
— vectoreditors.wordpress.com — A quick post this morning, since I’ve got to catch a train to York (to visit two-thirds... of Eve’s Alexandria ). So I leave you with two perspectives on this year’s Hugo Awards. Abigail Nussbaum writes about the Best Novel shortlist ... (more) On Hugos

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On Hugos
Torque Control — ... (Zoe’s Tale and Saturn’s Children) and here (Little Brother, The Graveyard Book, and Anathem). Her final judgment? ...

Opinions On The Hugo Nominees
Big Dumb Object — Niall has some links to opinions on the Hugo nominees. The most amusing of which is by Adam Roberts. Go and read the full post but is summary is: Here's what I'd like. If it isn't going to inconvenience you, I'd be enormously grateful, when it comes to next year's shortlists, if you could remember to come up with shortlists of excellent, brilliant and genius things; not shortlists of mediocre things. Which yes, would be great. But the majority of fans will not read shortlist full of genius things each ...

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