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Excellent space opera, with an interesting array of characters and a lot of unexpected twists in the plot. Nice to see that the book received a Hugo Best Novel nomination this year. #hugoawards #hugo2024

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The Hugo nominees were announced yesterday and these are the Best Novel nominees. The full list of nominees can be found at https://locusmag.com/2024/03/2024-hugo-astounding-and-lodestar-awards-finalists/.

I've read Starter Villain and Some Desperate Glory and liked both very much. Is anyone else planning to read the Hugo nominees?

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I loved this 2023 nominee for the Hugo Best Novella award. It seems at first a fairy-tale-like fantasy novel but turns out to be quite different, as secrets about the world are slowly revealed to both the protagonist and reader. It's also told in an unusual second-person voice.

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This retelling of the Snow White story has been nominated for 2023 Hugo Best Novella award. It was a low pick for me. It was enjoyable and had a lot of humour but I've been reading too many fairy-tale retellings lately.

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I loved this 3rd book in The Locked Tomb series, though I'm not sure I understood everything that happened (as in, who's alive, who's dead, and who's in whose body). This novel and the series got 2023 Hugo Award nominations.

BTW, the first half of the book felt like Anne of Green Gables with necromancers. Nona even has braids on the cover!

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I really wanted to like this Hugo-nominated futuristic take on Dashiell's Nick and Nora characters. Usually, I love sci-fi/mystery combos, and I've liked several of Kowal's other books. But I didn't care for the characters and the tone was too cutesy for my taste.

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I'd read this graphic novel because it was on the Hugo Best Graphic Story nominee list this year and probably wouldn't have picked it up otherwise. I probably would have enjoyed it more if I had been familiar with the video game it's based on.

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I'd heard good things about this urban fantasy series, nominated for the 2023 Hugo Best Series award, and I found this first book to be a very promising start. I liked the diverse characters, the interesting magic system and the humour.

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This official movie tie-in graphic novel was nominated for the 2023 Hugo Best Graphic Story award. The artwork is gorgeous but the book didn't seem to add anything to the movie version and it is too short to capture the depth of Herbert's novel.

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A Hugo Best Novel nominee, this story provides an interesting take on the fairy godmother character. I always enjoy books by T. Kingfisher, a.k.a. Ursula Vernon.

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