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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: 2025 Hugo Awards Homework - The Novels
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 21:47:01 -0700
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In article <XnsB2EF554D2283Ammikedacomcastnet@85.12.62.254>,
 Michael Ikeda <mmikeda@erols.com> wrote:

> Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote in
> news:robertaw-E0239D.21382429052025@news.individual.net: 
> 
> > I looked at the 2025 Hugo Award finalists and noticed that I was
> > unfamiliar with just about all of them. So I downloaded the some
> > of the packet, category by category.
> > 
>

(SNIP!!)
> > 
> > I did not read _Someone You can Build a Nest in_ by John
> > Wiswell, because a description that I read of it convinced me
> > that it was horror and I try to avoid horror. I had already read
> > _A Sorceress Comes to Call_ by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon).
> > BTW, this was the only one of the 24 fiction nominees that I had
> > already read. 
> > 
> 
> Is T. Kingfisher an exception to your "try to avoid horror" policy or did it 
> just not feel like horror genre to you?

I read it last year because somebody claimed that it was a take on the 
"Goose Girl" story from the Grimm Brothers collection. IMHO, it didn't 
look that much like "Goose Girl" (other than the girl being bullied).

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com