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emperor ([personal profile] emperor) wrote2023-08-29 10:55 am
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2023 Hugo Award: Best Novel; Best Novella

I've read all of these now, so need to rank them for voting purposes. Novels first:
  1. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
  2. The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal
  3. Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
  4. Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree
  5. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  6. The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi

I'm pretty clear about my first and last choices here, but the ordering of 2/3/4 was quite tricky.

Novellas:
  1. A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow
  2. Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky
  3. What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher
  4. Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk
  5. Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo
  6. Where the Drowned Girls Go, Seanan McGuire

This was a very strong field, and I struggled to rank it.