Like last year, we have five categories: Best Fantasy novel, Best Scifi novel, Best novella, Best Blurred Boundary story, Best series.
All works should have been published in 2018 (or republished if it included significant changes, or if it went from indie to traditional publishing). And, behold! Here are what we have liked best in 2018! Fantasy The Poppy War by RF Kuang The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty Someone Like Me by MR Carey Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Science Fiction I Still Dream by James Smythe Semiosis by Sue Burke Embers of War by Gareth L Powell The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts 84k by Claire North Space Opera by Catherynne M Valente Blurred Boundary The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley The Pyschology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas Rosewater by Tade Thompson Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar Trail of Lightening by Rebecca Roanhorse Novella The Tea Master And the Detective by Aliette de Bodard Prime Meridian by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Black God’s Drums by P Djeli Clark Beneath The Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire Chlorophryll and Gasoline by SJ Fleming Series The Wounded Kingdom by RJ Barker Machineries of War by Yoon Ha Lee Fractured Europe by Dave Hutchinson Vengeful by VE Schwab Every Day by David Levithan Chaos has obviously already descended upon us, particularly when we had to do some shuffling around, to say nothing of Rosewater which ended up in Blurred Boundary despite being initially in the Scifi category. As far as I'm concerned, I'm really looking forward to get into these, especially since I haven't read much of what has been published in the second half of 2018. Nonetheless, I won't take part in the first round for the series category because there are some stories I've really tried to get into, repeatedly, and didn't like. So I really have no intention of trying again! But you can expect reviews for much of the rest to follow vvery soon. This year's jurors are David from BlueBookBalloon, Imyril from x+1, Runalong Womble from Runalong the Shelves, Hammard from Cloaked Creators, Hedwig, Eowyn and I. You can follow the news on Twitter using #SCKA or #SubjectiveChaos. Next post: when we have finished reading them all and we will have decided on which book goes to the second round! ... Oh wait! We haven't settled a date for that yet! *grumbles* *grumbles* Bleeding chaos this award thingy! Last year's winners are here.
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