Nebulas announced

[alanajoli]

Well, I didn't keep up with the Nebulas and read them all in advance, which I suppose means I can shorten my ever growing reading list by just reading the winners.

One of these years, I will actually keep up again. Maybe I should start a sci-fi/fantasy book club and read the Hugo nominees before WorldCon in September. But since that's only three months away and I know there are more than three nominees for best novel, maybe I'll think ahead to next year and plan it for then. That gives me a little bit of time to start finding sci-fi and fantasy readers in my area--an unexplainable rarity in the land of Yale. You'd think that the Connecticut shoreline would be awash with geeks of all stripes due to the proximity of that institution, but we're sadly short on game stores, niche genre stores, and even just SFF circulation in the libraries. I'll have to see if banana_pants and any of the other New Haven-ites would be up for some good coffee-shop book clubbing.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

No, no, you do yourself a disservice to read just the winners...

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

I actually agree. The last time I kept up with the Hugos was back in 2003. While I felt Hominds was an excellent book and think the Robert J. Sawyer is a great guy, my pick would have been Kiln People by David Brin, which was possibly less deep, but--in my mind--more fun.

It's a shame that so few of the great books I'm reading anyway get nominated on the awards lists. I really should find out what the major YA awards are (if there are any) and follow those, since so much of what I'm reading lately falls in that category. It'd be particularly great if there were YA F&SF awards. And if those don't exist now, someday I must become rich and philanthropic and invent some.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Well, the Andre Norton Award is two years old, and both years have had stellar lists--and winners. *g*

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Brilliant idea! I just went over and edited the wikipedia page so that all the nominees and winners are listed. (They hadn't put up the 2005 list.) I have to thank you for the motivation to register on wikipedia--if you hadn't mentioned that Norilana Books had a livejournal, I wouldn't have gotten her post calling out for wiki-help.

I also noticed that you're the chair--I imagine that's been quite a bit of fun (and a lot of work as well)!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Comes definitely under the heading of really fun, and worthwhile, work. Some excellent books are getting the exposure they deserve--I really do believe we're in the middle of a golden age with respect to f and sf YA books.