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 Just finished: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Yeah, I think this is my Hugo best novel pick. It was really good, really timely, fucking gross, and gave me nightmares. It's very much a confluence all of Tchaikovsky's quirks—rather darkly funny narrator, alien minds, and the particular type of resolution he goes for. All of those things happen to work for me quite a bit. This one reminded me quite a bit of Jeff Vandermeer but less nihilistic and I liked the characters more.

Currently reading: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. This was the only novel on the Hugo list where I'd never heard of the author or the book. I'm loving it so far though. It's a murder mystery set in a city where only engineered seawalls stop the things from Attack on Titan from demolishing the place every wet season. A noble is murdered in a mansion (not his mansion) via a tree growing through his body. The person charged with investigating the murder is an old autistic woman who doesn't leave her house so she gets a young man to be her eyes and ears. The murder mystery structure makes it rather different from not just this batch of nominees but the other award lists in general, which is also intriguing.

Date: 2025-07-04 11:47 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] greylock
Surprised in someome gets nominated in the Hugos who wasn't on your radar, not even in terms of "quality", but word of mouth.
(You know, I actually have no idea HOW the Hugos get nominated. I know plenty of people who vote, and feel the need to read all of the nominees... BRL, to wikipedia!)

[Personally, I take it as a moral failing when something slips by me in an area I consider myself knowledgeable in, but that is very much a me thing.]

Date: 2025-07-04 12:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] greylock
I read ReacTOR and its various lists, so I'm not surprise Tor guff gets a lot of push, but I'd hoped they'd not be that pushy.
More fool me.

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