Awards season is well underway, and once again I am thrilled to be a juror for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards. As ever, this will mean several months of fantastic reading, interesting discussions with the other jurors, and of course the mandatory chaos that comes part and parcel – I’m looking forward to it enormously.
And that excitement is in no small part due to the fantastic list of nominees. This year the categories are as follows:
Fantasy
Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint Of Bright Doors (Tor / St Martin’s Press)
Salman Rushdie, Victory City (Jonathan Cape)
Moniquill Blackgoose, To Shape A Dragon’s Breath (Del Rey)
Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned The World (Pan Macmillan)
Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters Of Esi (HarperCollins India)
Science Fiction
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chaingang All-Stars (Pantheon / Harvill Secker)
Naomi Alderman, The Future (Fourth Estate)
Lavanya Lakshminarayan, The Ten Percent Thief (Solaris Books)
C Pam Zhang, The Land Of Milk And Honey (Hutchinson Heinemann / Riverhead Books)
Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot Of Shantiport (Tordotcom)
Lauren Beukes, Bridge (Mulholland Books)
Blurred Boundaries
E G Condé, Sordidez (Stelliform Press)
Dere Segun Falowo, Caged Ocean Dub (Android Press)
Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (Penguin Books)
Anya Johanna DeNiro, OKPsyche (Small Beer Press)
Novella
Andrew Knighton, Ashes Of The Ancestors (Luna Press)
Xian Mao, Apollo Weeps (Aqueduct Press)
Em X Liu, If Found Return To Hell (Solaris Books)
Indra Das, The Last Dragoners Of Bowbazar (Subterranean Press)
Iori Kusano, Hybrid Heart (Neon Hemlock)
E Saxey, On The English Approach To The Study Of History (Giganotosaurus)
Short Fiction
Jeannette Ng, The Girl With A City Inside Of Her (Uncanny Magazine)
Kristina Ten, Approved Methods Of Love Divination In The First-Rate City Of Dushagorod (Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine)
Tara Campbell, Welcome To Your Lifting (in Adventures In Bodily Autonomy, Aqueduct Press)
Eugenia Triantafyllou, Always Be Returning (The Sunday Morning Transport)
If you want to know more about the awards, this year’s jurors or past year’s nominees and winners, you can find it all here at the SCKA website.
I can’t wait to get started!
A Reader of Else 