Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy discussion

 
The finalists for the 2020 Hugo Awards (for SF&F works of 2019) have been announced:

Best Novel Finalists:

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow


Best Novella Finalists:
“Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" by Ted Chiang
The Deep by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers


Best Novelette Finalists:
“The Archronology of Love”, by Caroline M. Yoachim
“Away With the Wolves”, by Sarah Gailey
“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, by Sarah Pinsker
"Emergency Skin" by N.K. Jemisin
“For He Can Creep”, by Siobhan Carroll
“Omphalos”, by Ted Chiang


Best Short Story Finalists:
“And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, by Shiv Ramdas
“As the Last I May Know”, by S.L. Huang
“Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”, by Rivers Solomon
“A Catalog of Storms”, by Fran Wilde
“Do Not Look Back, My Lion”, by Alix E. Harrow
“Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, by Nibedita Sen


Best Series Finalists:
The Expanse, by James S. A. Corey
InCryptid, by Seanan McGuire
Luna, by Ian McDonald
Planetfall series, by Emma Newman
Winternight Trilogy, by Katherine Arden
The Wormwood Trilogy, by Tade Thompson


Hugo Awards are presented annually, selected by the members & supporters of that year's WorldCon. You can find a full list of all nominees in all other categories at the Hugo Awards website, including the retro-1945 Hugos.
The Winners will be announced at WorldCon 78, which was to have been held in Wellington, New Zealand, July 29 - August 2, 2020, but is now going virtual due to COVID-19.

Honestly not impressed with the novel selections

Only thing I've read is the first book of the Winternight Trilogy, by Katherine Arden. I guess the downside of not reading books right after they are published is having nothing to root for to win :)