Last year, I was fortunate enough to be selected as a judge for the Cybils Awards in the Young Adult Fiction category. This year, you could be one as…
The Cybils 2022 Are Coming: A Call for Judges
YA is not one of my preferred genres, but perhaps you feel inspired to become a judge for this award?
I didn‘t really follow the whole process, as I only vaguely care about awards, but here you are anyway—the results!
Best Novel
2040 final ballots cast (86.4%)
1093 nominating ballots for 441 nominees, finalist range 309-132
Best Novella
1691 final ballots cast (71.6%)
778 nominating ballots for 157 nominees, finalist range 219-124
Every single one of that category is from Tor. Apparently they give good Novella… *smirk*
Best Novelette
1499 final ballots cast (63.5%)
465 nominating ballots for 197 nominees, finalist range 108-33
Best Short Story
1574 final ballots cast (66.6%)
586 nominating ballots for 634 nominees, finalist range 65-35
Best Series
1872 final ballots cast (79.3%)
727 nominating ballots for 180 nominees, finalist range 300-87
Quite a good run for Martha Wells and Murderbot!
Best Graphic Story or Comic
1048 final ballots cast (44.4%)
303 nominating ballots for 254 nominees, finalist range 43-24
I am tempted to get Parable of the Sower, I will see. My track record with Octavia Butler so far was mixed.
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
1551 final ballots cast (64.7%)
574 nominating ballot for 192 nominees, finalist range 164-56
Old Guard is on my Netflix watchlist and the comic is kicking about in my comiXology app as well. Another one I finally want to get to in the new year.
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
1667 final ballots cast (70.6%)
454 nominating ballot for 321 nominees, finalist range 130-30
Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (presented by the World Science Fiction Society)
I left out a few. If you want to see the full list, just follow the link at the top.
I don‘t usually freak out about the end of the month coming, but July got away from me. I read good stuff, it was much better than June, but I did not manage to catch up… For my #ReadBIPOC2021 challenge I barely glanced at my pick for July, which was all about a collection or anthology. The main prompt leaned towards poetry, but I went for a short story collection from my TBR pile. My plan was to read:
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (ebook).
I will get to it eventually and probably post updates after each story.
The challenge for August is this:
Celebrating Award Winning Authors for the Reading Writers of Color Challenge.
And for my books on my TBR shelf (owned books) that gives me these choices:
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America’s Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world.
Literary Awards: Sunburst Award for Young Adult (2018), American Indian Youth Literature Award for Best Young Adult Book (Honor Book) (2018), Governor General’s Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Traduction (de l’anglais vers le français) by Madeleine Stratford (2019) and for Young People’s Literature — Text (2017), CBC Canada Reads Nominee (2018), Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature (2017)
Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When Kev is incarcerated for the crime of being a young black man in America, Ella—through visits both mundane and supernatural—tries to show him the way to a revolution that could burn it all down.
Literary Award: Alex Award (2021) — there was a ton of nominations for other awards, which this did not win…
In this epic saga of magic and kungfu, four siblings battle rival clans for honor and power in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis.
Literary Awards: World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2018), Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel (English) (2018)
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless – people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumoured healing powers.
Literary Awards: Arthur C. Clarke Award (2019), Nommo Award for Best Novel (The Ilube Award) (2017)
Delighted to find out that New Atlantis (e-book here; originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) is a finalist for the …
New Atlantis nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
Another award that has completely passed me by is the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Maybe next year?
I haven‘t read any of the stories on this list. So much to read, so little time…
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