The Best of 2008, Redux

Following on from Liz’s two lists of her best 2008 reads, here are some more for you to peruse.

• Strange Horizons review of the year
• ReadySteadyBook books of the year symposium; I am particularly taken by China Mieville‘s description of this book as a “crossbreed of petro-apocalyptic philosophy and post-genre horror fiction”
• Abigail Nussbaum’s short stories and best reads of 2008
• Big Dumb Object’s picks
• Martin Lewis’ book awards and film awards
• Micole’s books and sequential art picks
• The preliminary qualifiers for the Nebula Award

And on related notes:

• The David Gemmell Legend Award is now open to voting, until 31st March; despite my disgruntlement with the changes to the rules, I still think you should vote, because these things have more value the more inclusive they are
• The same goes for the SF Site Reader’s Choice awards, for which you have until 6th February to vote
• And, most imminently, BSFA members should nominate for the BSFA Awards by 16th January — that’s next Friday

(Of course, you may be wondering what my books of the year are. Unfortunately, I acquired Final Fantasy XII over Christmas, and have now been well and truly sucked in, which means that blogging is falling by the wayside a little. Plus, there’s a whole bunch of 2008 titles I haven’t read yet, and want to get to before the Hugo nomination deadline at the end of February. So, no lists from me at the moment, I’m afraid.)