2025 Ignyte Nominees

Jun. 10th, 2025 07:39 pm
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Here, or behind the cut.

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2025 Nebula Awards

Jun. 7th, 2025 09:03 pm
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The 2025 Infinity seems to have gone to Frank Herbert a month ago (here) and I didn't hear about it. Herbert seems like a timely choice with the Dune movies happening; [personal profile] elysdir had once listed him as a possibility so I had him on my potentials list, although I will continue to be surprised every year it isn't DWJ, and I'm a little surprised they picked a white man at this time of official erasure of women and people of color. (Although in fact I think my whole potentials list is white, doh.)

Nice speech from Nicola Griffith.

Huh, they're adding a graphic novel Nebula next year! Fascinating! I wonder how this might shift who nominates for/votes for the graphic Hugo. And poetry! Neat!

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The Maid and the Crocodile

Jun. 6th, 2025 02:24 pm
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The Maid and the Crocodile, Jordan Ifueko, 2024 YA. I liked this a lot. Charming characters, enjoyable voice, some great moments, the exact right amount of story for the space. I couldn't remember much about Raybearer except that I had really liked it (this is in the same world) but Ifueko did a good job of filling in who the overlapping characters were and anything else you needed to know. Read more... ) I still have three more Lodestar nominees to read but this is definitely a strong contender.

The Ministry of Time

Jun. 6th, 2025 02:21 pm
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The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley, 2024 novel. My first problem with this book was that I couldn't buy into the premise; the set-up as given did not feel like a way anyone would go about doing what they were ostensibly doing, nor did that thing even make sense to me, so it seemed like something else must be going on, and I was not very interested in plodding along waiting for a reveal. My second problem was a turn towards romance where I was put off by the ship. In the end the whole thing felt muddled and contrived - Bradley's interest was clearly in this one historical blorbo, to use the fannish term (possibly literally a fannish blorbo if the genesis of this book was in Terror fandom) and she knew what beats she wanted in the story about them and had tried to assemble a plot that would give them to her. But to me some of them felt arbitrary and under-motivated and the whole thing didn't quite hang together.

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