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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: 2024 Hugo Award Winners Emily Tesh
Date: 13 Sep 2024 12:33:43 -0000
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In article <vc0ml1$o2ja$1@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>On 12/08/24 09:57, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Best Novel: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Tordotcom, Orbit UK)
>> 
>
>I enjoyed it initially with several complaints but might have thrown it
>at the wall about half way through if it hadn't been a Hugo Award
>winner. I have not read the other contenders but the standard of
>writing, the lack of a science background evident in limited vocabulary
>and frequent difficulty to suspend disbelief did not even hint at award
>nomination.

Read Translation State.  It deserved the award in my opinion.
--scott

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