Apologies for our silence of late, real life has been getting on top of us. We plan to try to be a lot more active in 2018. Opening this is our participation in The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards.
As book bloggers we all love to discuss and shout about our favourite books of the year. But yet we can never read them all. So a group of us thought why not try to read each other’s and debate which ones we like best.
Thus Subjective Chaos is born!
This is not a real award in the way most people would use the term. There is no fancy ceremony or prize money. We are even each crafting our own announcements. Just a few SFF fans having some fun and reading some great books.
I will attempt to read all the entries and review on here all those written by authors who do not identify as male. (Links below). The others involved will also be sharing their thoughts:
The Shortlist:
So who is on the shortlist? After much wrangling, debate and a few fireballs thrown here is the shortlist:
Best Fantasy Novel
Chalk by Paul Cornell
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Metronome by Oliver Langmead
Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Under The Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng
Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark
Godblind by Anna Stephens
Best Science Fiction Novel
The Rift by Nina Allan
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
Places in the Darkness by Christopher Brookmyre
Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Best Series
Divine Cities by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
The Broken Earth by N. K. Jemisin
Split Worlds by Emma Newman
Binit by Nnedi Okorafor
Best Novella
Buffalo Soldier by Maurice Broaddus
The Winter Fayre by Christian Ellingsen
A Song For Quiet by Cassandra Khaw
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
The Tensorate Duology by JY Yang
Best Blurred Boundaries
Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott
The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
Jade City by Fonda Lee
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
We hope you enjoy reading these
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