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.)
Fyi, the list of the Preliminary ballot of the Nebulas is far from complete. Those books/stories/scripts only reflected through November 30th or so….the full list will likely be posted in the next week or so.