Hugo Voting Recommendations - Chicon 8
Once again, it's time to give my list of recommendations for the Hugo Awards. Finalists were announced back on April 7th. The Hugo Awards Packet was issued by Chicon 8 on This has been an odd year. The previous awards ceremony was only last December, so it doesn't feel like we've had all that much time to read anything. But here we are, and we have until the 11th to vote. So here are my picks: Best Novel *A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine (Tor) The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager / Hodder & Stoughton) Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki (Tor / St Martin’s Press) A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom / Orbit UK) Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (Ballantine / Del Rey) She Who Became the Sun, by Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor / Mantle) A fascinating array of great sci fi novels makes up this year's finalists. I've spoken very strongly in favor of Project Hail Mary in the past. It deserved to be a finalist, and i