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Aliette de Bodard
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So hiiiii Hugo Awards nominations have opened and I'm in deadline hell, so here's a thread of eligibility and recs until I get around to the actual post
I wrote THE TEA MASTER AND THE DETECTIVE, a gender-swapped Sherlock Holmes in space where Watson is a traumatised cranky spaceship
subterraneanpress.com/the-tea-master…
amazon.co.uk/Tea-Master-Det…
Eligible for best novella.
I also wrote this blog post on Motherhood and Erasure @D_Libris's blog
intellectusspeculativus.wordpress.com/2018/12/03/ali…
Eligible for Best Non-Fiction, best Related etc.
I would like to hard recommend @likhain for her work, in particular the two pieces she did for IN THE VANISHERS' PALACE. She's doing amazing things in genre and I would like this to be recognised.
(Best Artwork and Best Fan Artist)
And @kelseylegit (with art direction @charibdys and design @merumorimaru ) did the wonderful art for the cover of IN THE VANISHERS' PALACE
Ruby, Singing", by @fran_wilde is a heartbreaking story of gems, murder, and memory
Eligible for Best Short Story
beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/ruby-s…
"The Rose Macgregor Drinking and Admiration Society"
This @UrsulaV story is just hilarious and skewers so many of the faerie myths
uncannymagazine.com/article/the-ro…
Eligible for Best Short Story
.@zenaldehyde's "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again" is a hilarious story about an imugi (as she says, the failboats of the dragon world) and the relationships it builds on its way to heaven. It's sweet and painful and so true
barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fa…
(Best Novelette)
I'm unsure about eligibility because it came out in a different edition, but @tadethompson's ROSEWATER is the hard gritty SF book you need. Fungal alien invasion, characters you love to hate, and busting at the seams with ideas
amazon.com/Rosewater-Worm…
(Best Novel)
.@matociquala's "She Still Loves the Dragon" has amazing prose, painful love, and dragons
uncannymagazine.com/article/still-…
(Best short story)
.@FoggWriter's The House of Illusionists is heartbreaking and harrowing, the story of teachers and their child students in a city under siege, and the power of magic
liminalstoriesmag.com/issue5/the-hou…
(Best Short Story. I think?)
.@singlecrow "Refugees; or, a nine item representative of a better world" is short, evocative and just punches in the gut, about people who provide (very temporary) respite and healing for refugees
strangehorizons.com/fiction/refuge…
(Best Short Story)
.@ianmuneshwar's "Salt Lines", about a monster and the gay man whom it follows
strangehorizons.com/fiction/salt-l…
(Best Short Story)
.@tashadrinkstea's EMPIRE OF SAND, a Mughal Empire-inspired story about a persecuted people--about power and oppression and love and the dreams of the gods
hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tasha-s…
(Best Novel, and Tasha also for Campbell Award)
.@clpolk's WITCHMARK: a queer sorcerer hiding his identity teams up with an immortal to find a murderer. Flirting, kissing, bicycle chases, and investigation amidst political intrigue in the wake of a war
publishing.tor.com/witchmark-clpo…
(Best novel)
.@motomaratai's REVENANT GUN, which closes the Machineries of Empire. Jedaooooooo
(more seriously, epic space opera, crunchy politics & world building, and all the totally matter-of-fact queerness)
simonandschuster.com/books/Revenant…
.@RoanhorseBex's Trail of Lightning, which is post-apocalyptic fantasy with magic, a hard-bitten heroine and her new assistant who kill monsters
simonandschuster.com/books/Trail-of…
This essay by @MarissaLingen on what makes hard SF, which should be required reading
uncannymagazine.com/article/hard-e…
(Best Non Fiction/Best Related/Best Fan Writer)
.@stephanieburgis's SPELLSWEPT, in which an ambitious woman has to save a party held in an underwater ballroom from utter disaster--and to find the man of her heart
stephanieburgis.com/books/spellswe…
(Best Novella)
For Best Fan Writer, @hawkwing_lb for her Sleeps With Monster & Locus columns (and probably something else I've missed!)
tor.com/series/sleeps-…
And @bogiperson for eir website Bogi Reads the World and regular worldbuilding threads
bogireadstheworld.com
(Ok, done for now. Will post a complete thing when I've crawled my way out of revisions, with links and more recommendations)
Oh wait, two things which I know get asked:
-Xuya is eligible for Best Series (over word count limit and TEA MASTER published this year)
-In the Vanishers' Palace is 48k and belongs in the novel category (where it has a snowball's chance in hell, I know ^-^).
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Aliette de Bodard
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My writing advice:
1. It's ok to write, it's ok not to write.
2. When actively drafting a project I'll try to write 3 sentences a day on most days. Any day when this happens is a win
3. Bribe myself to write if necessary
4. Remember that the adjustment variable is my health
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