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• Alien Clay

  Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-

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  Nominee – Best Novel. "They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ministry of Time

  a Novel

  Bradley, Kaliane,

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  Nominee – Best Novel. "In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Service Model

  Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-

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  Nominee – Best Novel. "To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Someone You Can Build a Nest in

  Wiswell, John, 1981-

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  Nominee – Best Novel. "Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Sorceress Comes to Call

  Kingfisher, T.,

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  Nominee – Best Novel. "From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call--a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl," rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic. *The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Tainted Cup

  Bennett, Robert Jackson, 1984-

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  WINNER – Best Novel. "In Daretana's most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead--killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even in this canton at the borders of the Empire, where contagions abound and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Brides of High Hill

  Vo, Nghi,

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  Nominee – Best Novella. "The cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. The bride's party is welcomed with elaborate courtesies and extravagant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Butcher of the Forest

  Mohamed, Premee,

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  Nominee – Best Novella. "At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn--the only one to ever enter the forest and survive--is forced to go back inside to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Navigational Entanglements

  Bodard, Aliette de,

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  Nominee – Best Novella. "Jockeying navigator clans guide spaceships through the Hollows: an area of space populated by the mysterious but deadly creatures known as Tanglers. When a Tangler escapes the Hollows for the first time in living memory,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

  Samatar, Sofia,

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  Nominee – Best Novella. The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes--literally--when he is yanked "upstairs" and informed he has been given an opportunity to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Tusks of Extinction

  Nayler, Ray,

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  WINNER - Best Novella. "When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again. The late Dr. Damira…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Feasts at Night

  Kingfisher, T.,

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  Nominee – Best Novella. "The follow-up to T. Kingfisher's bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead. Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Sun

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  WINNER – Best Series (Between Earth and Sky). First in series. "A god will return when the earth and sky converge under the black sun in the holy city of Tova... The winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jasmine Throne

  Suri, Tasha,

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  Nominee – Best Series (The Burning Kingdoms). First in series. "Set in a world inspired by historical India, The Jasmine Throne begins a sweeping new epic fantasy trilogy in which a captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Annihilation

  VanderMeer, Jeff,

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  Nominee – Best Series (Southern Reach). First in series. "Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Way of Kings

  Sanderson, Brandon,

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  Nominee – Best Series (The Stormlight Archive). First in series. "Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Discount Armageddon

  McGuire, Seanan

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  Nominee - Best Series (InCryptid). First in series. "Verity Price, who has been trained from birth as a cryptozoologist--a monster hunter--attempts to pursue a career in professional ballroom dance, but dangerous cryptids and an enemy operative keep…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City of Last Chances

  Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-

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  Nominee – Best Series (The Tyrant Philosophers). First in series. "There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Star Trek, Lower Decks

  Warp Your Own Way

  North, Ryan, 1980-

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  WINNER – Best Graphic Story or Comic. "Mariner just wants to have a normal day, but no matter what side of the bed she wakes up on, the world is ending. Literally. If she has coffee, Borg attack! If she has raktajino, cue the Romulan boarding party!…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dune, Part Two

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  WINNER – Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. "The mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen on a warpath of revenge and endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee."