It’s the awards season (honestly, I hadn’t noticed), so it is also, and inevitably, the season for debates about awards.…
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 4
[At last, after laying out my wares, turning in turn to Boneshaker by Cherie Priest and Julian Comstock by Robert…
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 3
[And so it goes on. Having set out my stall and considered Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, I now give a…
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 2
[Yesterday I started this mammoth post on Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson and The Windup…
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 1
When I set out to blog this year’s Hugo shortlisted novels, I imagined something conventional like a separate post on…
Blogging the Hugos: The City And The City
[Note: many of the ideas about the border as heterotopia come from an as-yet unpublished paper by Maureen Kincaid Speller,…
Blogging the Hugos: Wake
By chance, I happen to have all bar one of the novels shortlisted for this year’s Hugo Award (the one…