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11:35am: Hugo voting: part 4
I've become a voting and attending member of Anticipation SF, the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal. As part of my membership, I received an electronic packet of most of the nominated works, including all of the short fiction and all of the novels save one (which I happen to have also read). I am going to post about how I'm voting and why -- a little review of each fiction category. Today, novels.

Best Novel
* Anathem by Neal Stephenson
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
* Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
* Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross
* Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi

( And the Hugo goes to... )

You can read almost all of the nominated short fiction and one of the novels for free... available at:

http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Hugos

11:17am: Hugo voting: part 3
I've become a voting and attending member of Anticipation SF, the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal. As part of my membership, I received an electronic packet of most of the nominated works, including all of the short fiction and all of the novels save one (which I happen to have also read). I am going to post about how I'm voting and why -- a little review of each fiction category. Today, novellas.

Best Novella
* “The Erdmann Nexus” by Nancy Kress
* “The Political Prisoner” by Charles Coleman Finlay
* “The Tear” by Ian McDonald
* “True Names” by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow
* “Truth” by Robert Reed

( And the Hugo goes to... )

You can read almost all of the nominated short fiction and one of the novels for free... available at:

http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Hugos

5:43pm: Hugo voting: part 2
I've become a voting and attending member of Anticipation SF, the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal. As part of my membership, I received an electronic packet of most of the nominated works, including all of the short fiction and all of the novels save one (which I happen to have also read). I am going to post about how I'm voting and why -- a little review of each fiction category. Today, novelettes.

Best Novelette:
* "Alastair Baffle’s Emporium of Wonders" by Mike Resnick
* "The Gambler" by Paolo Bacigalupi
* "Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel
* "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" by James Alan Gardner
* "Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear

( And the Hugo goes to... )

You can read almost all of the nominated short fiction and one of the novels for free... available at:

http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Hugos

3:33pm: what it was like on the cruise pt. 1
From April 30 to May 15, I was an a cruise in the eastern Mediterranean with my parents. Ports of call were Athens, Chios (Greece), Istanbul, Kusadasi/Ephesus (Turkey), Alexandria, Port Said (Egypt), Ashdod, Haifa (Israel), Limassol (Cyprus), Sorrento, Rome (Italy). I'll be posting a few memories of the trip here.

( the ship )

10:42am: Hugo voting: part 1
I've become a voting and attending member of Anticipation SF, the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal. As part of my membership, I received an electronic packet of most of the nominated works, including all of the short fiction and all of the novels save one (which I happen to have also read). I am going to post about how I'm voting and why -- a little review of each fiction category. Today, short stories.

Best Short Story
* “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson
* “Article of Faith” by Mike Resnick
* “Evil Robot Monkey” by Mary Robinette Kowal
* “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
* “From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled” by Michael Swanwick

( And the Hugo goes to.... )

EDIT: You can read almost all of the nominated short fiction and one of the novels for free... available at:

http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Hugos