Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: 2025 Hugo Awards Homework - The Novels Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 21:47:01 -0700 Organization: home user Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net TkES8yJiPYeuAERIpoKRtAcv/SgVAs21F63sjBYZlCc79GeECv X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:pMwET4AcX4/aZPv51tg8DxKwKcQ= sha256:Im0DeqzAnO4JoJhyDnYc30IP+tVMWLe27yJt+5PePjE= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) In article , Michael Ikeda wrote: > Robert Woodward 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_. ‹----------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com