The fix is in
Aug. 1st, 2013 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylWith the hugos deadline past, I think it's worth saying that I didn't really struggle with most of this year's decisions. I thought the novella & novelette categories were strong, the novels were a bit of a curate's egg, and the short story selection was too limited to say anything about.
My favourite discovery of the year was Max Gladstone's Three Parts Dead from the list of Campbell nominees. A sort of post-Perdido steampunk fantasy, it imagines a world where technology is welded to magic and magic is treated like a tradable commodity. Consequently, gods can go bankrupt — a fatal process for a non-material being! — while human crafters, often brought in to clean up complex magical messes, are equal parts wizard and lawyer. Very highly recommended.
My favourite discovery of the year was Max Gladstone's Three Parts Dead from the list of Campbell nominees. A sort of post-Perdido steampunk fantasy, it imagines a world where technology is welded to magic and magic is treated like a tradable commodity. Consequently, gods can go bankrupt — a fatal process for a non-material being! — while human crafters, often brought in to clean up complex magical messes, are equal parts wizard and lawyer. Very highly recommended.
