The Nebula/Hugo Award Challenge discussion

First of all, welcome. If you feel like it, please introduce yourself here. How did you find the group? Why did you decide to join this challenge? What books do you normally read?

Hi, my name is Kristina, 27 years old from Norway. I love this group!!! The challenge is awesome. Sci-fi <3 <3 <3

The other group I belong to is a horror novel group. Horror fiction is alive and well and I have no trouble at all finding new things to read. But science fiction is another story. It seems to have been overrun by the fantasy and paranormal genres and finding a good 'hard' sci-fy novel can be tricky. That's why I joined this group; it was the closest I could find to a pure science fiction group.

Been on this quest for a few years now. Glad to have found people with the same goal!
I use an iphone app called scifi booklist to track my progress. So far I am 35% through nebula and 29% through Hugo. Also added my own goal of reading all the Asimov novels as a side quest. Going with Asimov's own chronological sequence of his own work. Now I am on robots and empire.

Mid-40s in Clarion West's neighborhood (Seattle), I've been reading in the genre since childhood. I prefer science to magic, ships to dragons, and time travel to astral... but I know, sometimes space-colony dragon time travel (Pern) or interplanetary astral travel (John Carter) happens.

Reading through a combo of Nebula, Hugo, Campbell, and Locus winners with plenty of nominees also in the mix -- not in any particular order unless within a series. All this while keeping current with Analog, Asimov's, and MF&SF subscriptions and whatever piques a moment's interest.

At times I'll reread some from ages ago to get back in the swing of a story (example: Earthsea back when it was only a trilogy; #4 won the Nebula, so a #1-3 binge was had before doing a #4-6 binge).