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January 23, 2008
2007 BSFA Awards Shortlist
The final shortlist for the 2007 BSFA awards are up here.
There's discussion about them over a Torque Control and VCTB has a comment about the lack of a Non-Fiction award.
I didn't nominate anything at all, for the following reasons:
Point 4 is the tricky one. And deciding whether things are eligible is even trickier. (To be honest, I find just remembering what I've read to be difficult.) The best books I read last year were Brasyl, Halting State, Glasshouse and Magic For Beginners. Halting State comes out tomorrow, so that doesn't count, and Magic For Begginers was published the year before, I think.
If the lack of Non-Fiction Award disturbs you, I recommend Brave New Words which is good fun and the sort of thing you can keep lying about and dipping into.
There's discussion about them over a Torque Control and VCTB has a comment about the lack of a Non-Fiction award.
I didn't nominate anything at all, for the following reasons:
- I never got around to it
- One vote never makes any difference anyway (although in the Non-Fic category this may not be true).
- When I went to the website to try and remember how you nominated stuff I couldn't find anything so gave up.
- I didn't read enough stuff that qualified to be eligible.
- Brasyl should win the novel category and I assumed it would make the shortlist anyway.
Point 4 is the tricky one. And deciding whether things are eligible is even trickier. (To be honest, I find just remembering what I've read to be difficult.) The best books I read last year were Brasyl, Halting State, Glasshouse and Magic For Beginners. Halting State comes out tomorrow, so that doesn't count, and Magic For Begginers was published the year before, I think.
If the lack of Non-Fiction Award disturbs you, I recommend Brave New Words which is good fun and the sort of thing you can keep lying about and dipping into.