SCKA 2022 - We're back!

The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards are back, and I'm back as a juror too after a year of hiatus.
Our nomination list is in and we have so many good stories on it!

What is the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards?
Short answer: it's some kind of awards -- kind of because you shouldn't take us too seriously -- in the genres of scifi, fantasy, horror and all sub-genres in between, given by a bunch of enthusiastic (read chaotic) SFF readers who don't pretend that they know what's best but who know what they like (hence subjective).

Long answer: we have a brand new website where you can read all about us and check on previous years nominees, winners, and jurors. (Thanks Imyril for putting so much time in it!) The website is here, and look at our shiny Twitter account here! (Are we becoming organised? Nah...!)

Come on, C.! Stop babbling and give us the nomination list!

FANTASY
Lucy Holland, Sistersong
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, The House of Rust
Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne
C.L. Clark, The Unbroken
Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
A.C. Wise, Wendy, Darling
Laura Eve, Blackheart Knights
P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn

SCIENCE-FICTION
Tade Thompson, Far from the Light of Heaven
Calvin Kalsuke, Several People are Typing
Nicole Kornher-Stace, Firebreak
Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age
Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth
Brent A. Harris, Alyx: An AI's Guide to Love and Murder
Benjamin Rosenbaum, The Unravelling
Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

BLURRED BOUNDARIES
Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
K. Eason, Nightwatch on the Hinterlands
Un-Su Kim, The Cabinet
Monica Byrne, The Actual Star
T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead
E. Lily Yu, On Fragile Waves
Rena Rossner, The Light of the Midnight Stars
Rivers Solomon, Sorrowlands
Marshall Ryan Maresca, The Velocity of Revolution

GRAPHIC NOVELS
Molly Knox-Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
Hiromi Goto & Ann Xu, Shadow Life
Rachel Smythe, Lore Olympus
Wendy Xu, Tidesong

DEBUT
Lorraine Wilson, This is Our Undoing
Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
Elly Bangs, Unity
Louise Carey, Inscape
Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow
Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
E.J. Beaton, The Councillor

YA
Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season
Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones
Lilliam Rivera, We Light Up the Sky
Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

NOVELLAS
Shingai Njeri Kagunda, & This Is How We Stay Alive
Yaroslav Barsukov, Tower of Mud and Straw
Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
Chris Willrich, A Manslaughter of Crows
Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Well-Built
Premee Mohamed, These Lifeless Things
Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours
Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered
Catherynne M. Valente, The Past is Red
Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds
Dilman Dila, The Future God of Love
Aimee Ogden, Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters

SHORT FICTION
Ellen Kushner, Immortal Coil
Malka Older, The Badger's Digestion, or The First First-Hand Description of Deneskan Beastcraft by an Aouwan Researcher
A.C. Wise, The Amazing Exploding Women of the 20th Century
Isabel J. Kim, Homecoming Is Just Another Word For The Sublimation Of The Self

SERIES
Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire
C.L. Polk, The Kingston Cycle
T. Frohock, Los Nefilim
Malorie Blackman, Noughts and Crosses
James SA Corey, The Expanse

Obviously, I already have my own favourites and I'm looking forward to seeing if another story steals my heart!
So far, I've already reviewed and loved & This Is How We Stay Alive, Light from Uncommon Stars, The Future God of Love, These Lifeless Things, and This is Our Undoing and maybe I should update my review of The Expanse at some point.

What's next?
Reading. Lots of. You'll see popping up on the blog reviews for the books I've loved over the next few months.
I'll be reading in the scifi, fantasy, blurred boundaries, novella, debut, and series categories, which makes for a lot. And maybe it wasn't that wise to pick that many!
We are hoping to have finalists in early July, but as always those deadlines are subject to change.

Where can we find the SCKA on the interwebs?
Our debates are held privately, but we use our brand new Twitter account ( @SCKAwards ) RT blog posts from the jurors. Our website includes all the information you may seek about the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards.

Follow our adventures and embrace the chaos!