I'd read 4 out of 6 novels. The winner was one I hadn't read (I have it high on the "next read" pile).

I was pretty surprised Gideon didn't win, it got so much acclaim and discussion. Maybe a bit too weird.

Also disappointed that Ten Thousand Doors finished last. I found it to be a bit slow at first, but once you got a feel for the multiple story threads in different times, it got clearer. The ending was splendid. 

Middlegame was dark, but good, I like McGuire's work a lot. 

• A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
• Middlegame, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Light Brigade, by Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)

I don't read much shorter fiction, but Time War was fantastic, and Tram Car 015 was very enjoyable (as are his other works).

• This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Saga Press; Jo Fletcher Books)
• In an Absent Dream, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate, by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, by Ted Chiang (Exhalation (Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador))
• The Deep, by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga Press/Gallery)

Last edited by Aja Jin (8/07/2020 4:41 pm)