November SFFKIT. Award winners

Hello,

This month topic is "Award winners", any award, anytime. Let's revisit old favorites or wonder how on earth the jury or the people nominated such a novel/novella/short story !

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Also, here's the 2023 SFFKIT planning thread. Come on down:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/345448

I am planning on reading a classic of the genre with The Forever War by Joe Haldeman which won a 1975 Nebula Award, a 1976 Hugo and many others.

I'm planning on City of Brass by S.A Chakraborty and The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

This month's theme is great as I'm way behind my personal challenge of reading at least two Hugo or Nebula awards winners each year. I'll probably go with one of the latest winners that I haven't read and isn't part of a series, and that would be either Redshirts by John Scalzi or A master of Djinn by P. Djèli Clark.

How about a Newbery?

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley fits, I think.

>7 fuzzi: Newbery is good and the book is a great one.

>8 h-mb: yippee!

I have completed my read of The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and although I am very happy to have read this influential book, I struggled to get through it, finding it very slow moving and quite depressing in places.

December thread is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/345840

>10 DeltaQueen50: I keep looking at that one and winding up getting other things because I get the feeling I'd feel the same way... one day, probably...

I did read A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. I need to get the next one before I forget the details of this one. It didn't end on a cliffhanger, because you knew it was coming and it really was a good ending for the story arc, but there are certainly Big Issues to deal with in the future.

>12 antqueen: I had both The Forever War and Starship Troopers on my list to read and I was expecting to like The Forever War more than Starship Troopers but actually I ended up preferring ST over TFW. So much for expectations!

>12 antqueen: It's good to know that A Memory Called Empire does not end in a cliffhagnger! Do you know whether there is a third book planned or whether it's only a 2-books series?

>13 DeltaQueen50: Ugh Starship Troopers really did _not_ grab my interest so I wonder how much I will like The forever war! ;)

>15 chlorine: I wasn't overly enthusiastic over Starship Troopers but I did prefer it to The Forever War so be warned ...

>14 chlorine: I was wondering that too. I think she has tentative plans to write more in the universe, at least, but as far as I know there's nothing else in the works right now.

>17 antqueen: OK so that would mean that the two books make a consistent set, which is good for me. I don't mean to wait for all the works in a given universe to be published before reading them, but if start reading a series with a plot spread over several books before all the books are published I tend to completely forget what is going on when the next book comes out. :p

>18 chlorine: I've read and liked both books, and while I think you need to have read Memory of empire to know Mahit and Three Seagrass, they have separate story arcs. Hope you enjoy A desolation called peace.

I read The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi, which won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2018.

COMPLETED Timescape by Gregory Benford, winner of the British Science Fiction Award for 1981, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for 1981, the Ditmar Award for 1981, and the Nebula Award for 1980.

I've been reading, Impossibilia, a collection of short stories by Douglas Smith. The English version of one of the stories, "Spirit Dance", was nominated for the Prix Aurora for Best Short-Form Work in English in 1998, and the French version, La Danse des Esprit won for Meilleur nouvelle en français in 2001.

>18 chlorine: Good to know that about this series, thanks!