In case you missed my terribly excited Twitter announcement a little while back, this year I have joined the 2021 jury for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards! We have gathered our party behind the scenes and put forth our nominations, and now we can finally share our shortlists!
*DRUMROLL*
Best Short Story
Juice Like Wounds – Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
Yellow and the Perception of Reality – Maureen F. McHugh (Tor.com)
You Perfect, Broken Thing – C.L. Clark (Uncanny Magazine)
Volumes – Laura Duerr (Cast of Wonders)
In Kind – Kayla Whaley (Vampires Never Get Old: Tales With Fresh Bite)
Convergence in Chorus Architecture – Dare Segun Falowo (Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora)
Tiger Lawyer Gets It Right – Sarah Gailey (Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology)
Best Novella
Ring Shout – P. Djèlí Clark
Sweet Harmony – Claire North
Riot Baby – Tochi Onyebuchi
The Empress of Salt and Fortune – Nghi Vo
The Four Profound Weaves – R.B. Lemberg
Upright Women Wanted – Sarah Gailey
Best Series
Witches of Lychford – Paul Cornell
Daevabad – S.A. Chakraborty
The Poppy War – R.F. Kuang
Sweet Black Waves – Kristina Pérez
Islands of Blood and Storm – Kacen Callender
Dominion of the Fallen – Aliette de Bodard
Best Debut
Raybearer – Jordan Ifueko
Year of the Witching – Alexis Henderson
Cemetery Boys – Aiden Thomas
The Scapegracers – Hannah Abigail Clarke
Legendborn – Tracy Deonn
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin – Roseanne A. Brown
Best Blurred Boundaries
Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu
Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Harrow the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
The Bone Shard Daughter – Andrea Stewart
The City We Became – N.K. Jemisin
Best Science Fiction
Repo Virtual – Corey S. White
The Space Between Worlds – Micaiah Johnson
Goldilocks – Laura Lam
The Vanished Birds – Simon Jiminez
Nophek Gloss – Essa Hansen
Deal With the Devil – Kit Rocha
Best Fantasy
The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune
Black Sun – Rebecca Roanhorse
The Wolf of Oren-Yaro – K.S. Villoso
Comet Weather – Liz Williams
The Midnight Bargain – C.L. Polk
The Once and Future Witches – Alix E. Harrow
Ta-daaaaa! I am so, so very excited to get to reading, which is underway, and to voting for our finalists!
In the meantime, though, I will be attempting to keep track of my thoughts and opinions on those nominees in categories where I am on a jury (we’re being selective, but as balanced as we can be) by writing them up in regular-ish reviews. So keep your eyes peeled for those posts as they happen!
If you missed the announcement of this year’s jurors, you can check out our introductions courtesy of a certain Womble at runalongtheshelves.net.
That’s all from me for now, I’ve got a stack of reading to do…
2 comments On Gather the party: Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards 2021
Belated congratulations! And happy reading! There are so many intriguing titles here, I can’t wait to hear your thoughts. 😃
Sounds like fun! Enjoy your reading 🙂
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