2019 Locus List
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psocopteraThe Locus List came out a few days ago - you can take a look at it here.
Omissions I care about: No Afterward (Johnston) or Spin the Dawn (Lim) in the YAs, which is a bad sign for either making the Lodestar ballot. Of my favorite short stories so far, none of "Tower" (Waldman), "Visible Frontier" (Seybold), "Shattered Sidewalks" (Miller), or "Such Thoughts Are Unproductive" (Campbell), or the novelette "Dave's Head" (Palmer).
They did pick the same three stories I did from New Suns, so that was funny.
I hope to get through Lightspeed, Tordotcom, and BCS in time to take another look at the Locus list and check out short fiction on it from magazines I don't read that is online, but it's already early Feb, so who knows. If anyone has thoughts about omissions (or stuff that you're excited to see made it!) I'd be interested to hear it.
(Oh, one thing I noted, there seems to be some confusion over whether Desdemona and the Deep (which I still haven't read but want to) is a novel (as listed here, Tordotcom's own list of 2019 publications) or a novella, as Locus has sorted it. Aha, the author has posted about that here with an actual wordcount and everything. I love an author who's on top of this stuff.)
ETA: Locus recced 13 novellas last year and 32 this year. I had read 8 of them last year and have read 9 of them this year (so far) and may manage 1-3 more; probably means more of the nominees will be unfamiliar to me?
Omissions I care about: No Afterward (Johnston) or Spin the Dawn (Lim) in the YAs, which is a bad sign for either making the Lodestar ballot. Of my favorite short stories so far, none of "Tower" (Waldman), "Visible Frontier" (Seybold), "Shattered Sidewalks" (Miller), or "Such Thoughts Are Unproductive" (Campbell), or the novelette "Dave's Head" (Palmer).
They did pick the same three stories I did from New Suns, so that was funny.
I hope to get through Lightspeed, Tordotcom, and BCS in time to take another look at the Locus list and check out short fiction on it from magazines I don't read that is online, but it's already early Feb, so who knows. If anyone has thoughts about omissions (or stuff that you're excited to see made it!) I'd be interested to hear it.
(Oh, one thing I noted, there seems to be some confusion over whether Desdemona and the Deep (which I still haven't read but want to) is a novel (as listed here, Tordotcom's own list of 2019 publications) or a novella, as Locus has sorted it. Aha, the author has posted about that here with an actual wordcount and everything. I love an author who's on top of this stuff.)
ETA: Locus recced 13 novellas last year and 32 this year. I had read 8 of them last year and have read 9 of them this year (so far) and may manage 1-3 more; probably means more of the nominees will be unfamiliar to me?
