2023 Locus winners
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SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
WINNER: The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
The Red Scholar’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JABberwocky)
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris UK)
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf; Picador; HarperCollins Canada)
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
Eyes of the Void, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
Neom, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
Eversion, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
I haven't read this, but maybe it's a sign I should, in case it turns up on the Hugo ballot?
FANTASY NOVEL
WINNER: Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
Fevered Star, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
How have I read 8 out of 10 of these and none of the science fiction, that seems weird to me. Also I agree with this win.
HORROR NOVEL
WINNER: What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
Saturnalia, Stephanie Feldman (Unnamed)
Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
Road of Bones, Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s; Titan UK)
The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Wildfire)
The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Titan UK)
Gwendy’s Final Task, Stephen King & Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance; Hodder & Stoughton)
Echo, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Nightfire; Hodder & Stoughton)
No Gods for Drowning, Hailey Piper (Agora)
The Pallbearers Club, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper)
Well, that was the only one of these I read, but I did like it a lot, so yay. (Although I think I nominated it as a novella, hm.)
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
WINNER: Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
The Scratch Daughters, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
The Kindred, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
Bitter, Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
Unraveller, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet 1/23)
Rust in the Root, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
Ballad & Dagger, Daniel José Older (Hyperion)
An Arrow to the Moon, Emily X.R. Pan (Little, Brown; Orion)
Maybe I should read *this* in case it turns up on the Lodestar ballot.
FIRST NOVEL
WINNER: The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean (Tor; Harper Voyager UK)
The Bruising of Qilwa, Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)
The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
The Unbalancing, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu (Morrow; Bloomsbury)
The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang (Tor)
I have a bunch of these on my to-read list...
NOVELLA
WINNER: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances, Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky)
Servant Mage, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
“Bishop’s Opening“, R.S.A Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22)
A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Tread of Angels, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)
Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Definitely disagree with this one.
NOVELETTE
WINNER: “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You“, John Chu (Uncanny 7-8/22)
“Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold“, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 5-6/22)
“Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Other Terrors)
“Solidity”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 9-10/22)
“The Six Deaths of the Saint”, Alix E. Harrow (Into Shadow)
“In Mercy, Rain“, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com 7/18/22)
“Falling Off the Edge of the World”, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s 11-12/22)
“The Sadness Box“, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 7/22)
“A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
“The Difference Between Love and Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time)
So can we assume anything on both the Locus and Nebula list will also turn up on the Hugo ballot? Meaning Chu, Divya, and Talabi.
SHORT STORY
WINNER: “Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11-12/22)
“Give Me English”, Ai Jiang (F&SF 5-6/22)
“The Goldfish Man”, Maureen McHugh (Uncanny 3-4/22)
“Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare 1/22)
“Master of Ceremonies“, Frances Ogamba (The Dark 5/22)
“Beginnings”, Kristina Ten (Fantasy 4/22)
“The Coward Who Stole God’s Name”, John Wiswell (Uncanny 5-6/22)
“D.I.Y”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 8/24/22)
“Inheritance “, Hannah Yang (Analog 9-10/22)
“A Monster in the Shape of a Boy”, Hannah Yang (Apex 5/22)
Is "Rabbit Test" just winning everything this year, seems probable.
ANTHOLOGY
WINNER: Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, eds. (Tor)
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang, eds. (Tordotcom)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
Screams from the Dark, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, Rebecca Roanhorse & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (MIT Press)
Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Sheree Renée Thomas & Pan Morigan & Troy L. Wiggins, eds. (Third Man)
The Best of World SF: Volume 2, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Head of Zeus)
The Future is Female! Volume Two: The 1970s, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)
I should read this.
COLLECTION
WINNER: Boys, Beasts & Men, Sam J. Miller (Tachyon)
Dark Breakers, C.S.E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)
Memory’s Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Night Shift, Eileen Gunn (PM)
Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
Geometries of Belonging, R.B. Lemberg (Fairwood)
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe et al. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Illuminations, Alan Moore (Bloomsbury USA; Bloomsbury UK)
Our Fruiting Bodies, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct)
The Best of Lucius Shepard: Vol. 2, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
And possibly this.
MAGAZINE
WINNER: Tor.com
Apex
Asimov’s
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
F&SF
FIYAH
Lightspeed
Strange Horizons
Uncanny
Interesting.
PUBLISHER
WINNER: Tor
Angry Robot
Gollancz
Harper Voyager
Neon Hemlock
Orbit
Small Beer
Subterranean
Tachyon
Tordotcom
EDITOR
WINNER: Ellen Datlow
Neil Clarke
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
Jonathan Strahan
Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Sheree Renée Thomas
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Wendy N. Wagner
Sheila Williams
ARTIST
WINNER: Charles Vess
Tommy Arnold
Rovina Cai
Kinuko Y. Craft
Galen Dara
Julie Dillon
Bob Eggleton
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Michael Whelan
What did Vess even do this year.
NON-FICTION
WINNER: Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday UK)
The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)
Fantasy: How It Works, Brian Attebery (Oxford University Press)
An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus)
Queering SF: Readings, Ritch Calvin (Aqueduct)
Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature in a Pandemic, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola)
Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic, Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton (Routledge)
The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Two: 1940, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter (First Fandom Experience)
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics, Darieck Scott (New York University Press)
Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences, Bev Vincent (Epic Ink)
Hm, if this is on the Relateds I would mind that less than some other things.
ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK
WINNER: Chivalry, Neil Gaiman, art by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)
Visions of Beauty, Dianne Borsini-Burr, ed., art by Kinuko Y. Craft (Borsini-Burr & Imaginary Editions)
Paintings & Drawings of Rowena, Kim DeMulder, art by Rowena (self-published)
The Keeper, Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, art by Marco Finnegan (Megascope)
In the Black Fantastic, Ekow Eshun (Thames & Hudson; MIT Press)
Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly Volume Two, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art)
The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night, Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)
Mother Christmas, Vol 1: The Muse, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, art by Vic Terra (Rosarium)
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, George Orwell, art by Omar Rayyan (Suntup)
Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections, Shaun Tan (Walker Studio UK; Windy Hollow; Levine Querido)
SPECIAL AWARD 2023: Developing Diversity in Genre Communities
Carl Brandon Society
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
WINNER: The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
The Red Scholar’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JABberwocky)
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris UK)
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf; Picador; HarperCollins Canada)
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
Eyes of the Void, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
Neom, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
Eversion, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
I haven't read this, but maybe it's a sign I should, in case it turns up on the Hugo ballot?
FANTASY NOVEL
WINNER: Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
Fevered Star, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
How have I read 8 out of 10 of these and none of the science fiction, that seems weird to me. Also I agree with this win.
HORROR NOVEL
WINNER: What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
Saturnalia, Stephanie Feldman (Unnamed)
Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
Road of Bones, Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s; Titan UK)
The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Wildfire)
The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Titan UK)
Gwendy’s Final Task, Stephen King & Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance; Hodder & Stoughton)
Echo, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Nightfire; Hodder & Stoughton)
No Gods for Drowning, Hailey Piper (Agora)
The Pallbearers Club, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper)
Well, that was the only one of these I read, but I did like it a lot, so yay. (Although I think I nominated it as a novella, hm.)
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
WINNER: Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
The Scratch Daughters, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
The Kindred, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
Bitter, Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
Unraveller, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet 1/23)
Rust in the Root, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
Ballad & Dagger, Daniel José Older (Hyperion)
An Arrow to the Moon, Emily X.R. Pan (Little, Brown; Orion)
Maybe I should read *this* in case it turns up on the Lodestar ballot.
FIRST NOVEL
WINNER: The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean (Tor; Harper Voyager UK)
The Bruising of Qilwa, Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)
The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
The Unbalancing, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu (Morrow; Bloomsbury)
The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang (Tor)
I have a bunch of these on my to-read list...
NOVELLA
WINNER: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances, Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky)
Servant Mage, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
“Bishop’s Opening“, R.S.A Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22)
A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Tread of Angels, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)
Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Definitely disagree with this one.
NOVELETTE
WINNER: “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You“, John Chu (Uncanny 7-8/22)
“Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold“, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 5-6/22)
“Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Other Terrors)
“Solidity”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 9-10/22)
“The Six Deaths of the Saint”, Alix E. Harrow (Into Shadow)
“In Mercy, Rain“, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com 7/18/22)
“Falling Off the Edge of the World”, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s 11-12/22)
“The Sadness Box“, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 7/22)
“A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
“The Difference Between Love and Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time)
So can we assume anything on both the Locus and Nebula list will also turn up on the Hugo ballot? Meaning Chu, Divya, and Talabi.
SHORT STORY
WINNER: “Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11-12/22)
“Give Me English”, Ai Jiang (F&SF 5-6/22)
“The Goldfish Man”, Maureen McHugh (Uncanny 3-4/22)
“Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare 1/22)
“Master of Ceremonies“, Frances Ogamba (The Dark 5/22)
“Beginnings”, Kristina Ten (Fantasy 4/22)
“The Coward Who Stole God’s Name”, John Wiswell (Uncanny 5-6/22)
“D.I.Y”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 8/24/22)
“Inheritance “, Hannah Yang (Analog 9-10/22)
“A Monster in the Shape of a Boy”, Hannah Yang (Apex 5/22)
Is "Rabbit Test" just winning everything this year, seems probable.
ANTHOLOGY
WINNER: Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, eds. (Tor)
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang, eds. (Tordotcom)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
Screams from the Dark, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, Rebecca Roanhorse & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (MIT Press)
Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Sheree Renée Thomas & Pan Morigan & Troy L. Wiggins, eds. (Third Man)
The Best of World SF: Volume 2, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Head of Zeus)
The Future is Female! Volume Two: The 1970s, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)
I should read this.
COLLECTION
WINNER: Boys, Beasts & Men, Sam J. Miller (Tachyon)
Dark Breakers, C.S.E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)
Memory’s Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Night Shift, Eileen Gunn (PM)
Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
Geometries of Belonging, R.B. Lemberg (Fairwood)
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe et al. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Illuminations, Alan Moore (Bloomsbury USA; Bloomsbury UK)
Our Fruiting Bodies, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct)
The Best of Lucius Shepard: Vol. 2, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
And possibly this.
MAGAZINE
WINNER: Tor.com
Apex
Asimov’s
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
F&SF
FIYAH
Lightspeed
Strange Horizons
Uncanny
Interesting.
PUBLISHER
WINNER: Tor
Angry Robot
Gollancz
Harper Voyager
Neon Hemlock
Orbit
Small Beer
Subterranean
Tachyon
Tordotcom
EDITOR
WINNER: Ellen Datlow
Neil Clarke
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
Jonathan Strahan
Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Sheree Renée Thomas
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Wendy N. Wagner
Sheila Williams
ARTIST
WINNER: Charles Vess
Tommy Arnold
Rovina Cai
Kinuko Y. Craft
Galen Dara
Julie Dillon
Bob Eggleton
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Michael Whelan
What did Vess even do this year.
NON-FICTION
WINNER: Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday UK)
The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)
Fantasy: How It Works, Brian Attebery (Oxford University Press)
An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus)
Queering SF: Readings, Ritch Calvin (Aqueduct)
Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature in a Pandemic, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola)
Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic, Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton (Routledge)
The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Two: 1940, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter (First Fandom Experience)
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics, Darieck Scott (New York University Press)
Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences, Bev Vincent (Epic Ink)
Hm, if this is on the Relateds I would mind that less than some other things.
ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK
WINNER: Chivalry, Neil Gaiman, art by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)
Visions of Beauty, Dianne Borsini-Burr, ed., art by Kinuko Y. Craft (Borsini-Burr & Imaginary Editions)
Paintings & Drawings of Rowena, Kim DeMulder, art by Rowena (self-published)
The Keeper, Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, art by Marco Finnegan (Megascope)
In the Black Fantastic, Ekow Eshun (Thames & Hudson; MIT Press)
Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly Volume Two, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art)
The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night, Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)
Mother Christmas, Vol 1: The Muse, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, art by Vic Terra (Rosarium)
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, George Orwell, art by Omar Rayyan (Suntup)
Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections, Shaun Tan (Walker Studio UK; Windy Hollow; Levine Querido)
SPECIAL AWARD 2023: Developing Diversity in Genre Communities
Carl Brandon Society
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Date: 2023-06-25 05:16 pm (UTC)I remain perpetually bemused by the degree of Scalzi's popularity. I picked up Kaiju a couple nights ago, found it sufficiently readable but also DNFed because I didn't find it worth the trouble of picking up the following night.
I enjoyed What Moves the Dead, and especially appreciated the author's note where she related the pleasure/despair of reading Mexican Gothic and gestured toward technical details that didn't fit in the story.