Some say death and taxes are forever but I say chaos is eternal and once again it is time for Subjective Chaos in its sixth year!

The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards is a blogger award were a jury of us all nominate and try to find

First up look at the BEAUTIFUL website https://subjectivechaoskindofawards.wordpress.com we now have as we enter our sixth year and a recap of our previous awards, nominees and juries! Go to The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards –

Secondly let me introduce this year’s judges!

As always we have a mix of old and new faces and this year our various juries will comprise alongside little old me are

Adri (@adrijjy) is co-editor of the Hugo Award winning fanzine Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together, and a semi-aquatic mammal currently living in the UK. She divides her time between reading, interacting with dogs, and working in international development. She can also be found at Strange Horizons.

C. fell into scifi and fantasy at 13 and has never recovered since. They can be found blogging about diverse books, novellas and small press publications at http://www.themiddleshelf.org or on Twitter.

Gautam Bhatia (@gautambhatia88) is an Indian SF writer, editor, and reviewer. He is the author of The Wall and The Horizon, and reviews and edits for the Strange Horizons magazine.

Imyril (@imyril) reviews SFF at There’s Always Room For One More and is the resident spreadsheet dragon for Wyrd and Wonder, SciFiMonth and Subjective Chaos (yes, even chaos benefits from a little organisation, shh)

L.A. Young (a.k.a. Aquavenatus, Misty306) is a book reviewer for both her personal blog and Fantasy-Faction. In addition to reading, you can find her gaming, running, cooking, gardening and writing (check out her other published works online!). You can follow her on any of her many social media pages: https://linktr.ee/AquaVenatus

Robin Rose Graves (@spicymisorobin) is a science fiction writer who will never pass up the opportunity to talk about what she is reading. To appease this need to review and analyze everything she reads, Robin has founded her BookTube channel, The Book Wormhole.

Roseanna (@chloroform_tea) has been having opinions about books for about as long as she's been reading, and yelling them into the void since 2012. She blogs at readerofelse.wordpress.com and contributes to Nerds of a Feather, but can also occasionally be found chasing a rugby ball around in the mud, morris dancing, or pandering to her cat's every whim.

Sara is one half of Fiction Fans Podcast (@fictionfanspod), a weekly (mostly) SFF podcast which she has cohosted since its inception in 2021. When she’s not reading on the couch with her pugs, she can be found weeding in the garden.

Sun (@suncani1) is a SFF reader who can be found getting overly excited about a bunch of things on Twitter and occasionally pausing to pass longer comment at Libri Draconis as a contributor.

oh and last but not least - here are this year’s categories and nominations!

Best fantasy

The Unbalancing, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)

Spear by Nicola Griffith (tordotcom / st martin's press)

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (HarperVoyager - UK / Tor - US)

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher - Tor (US) / Titan Books (UK)

Swallow by Ayodele Olofintuade, (Masobe Books)

The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller (Tor)

Best Science Fiction

The Coral Bones by EJ Swift (Unsung)

Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi (tordotcom)

Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit)

Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders (Macmillan - US / Titan Books - UK)

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (Weidenfeld & Nicolson - UK / Macmillan - International)

Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot (Angry Robot)

Best Blurred Boundaries

The Way the Light Bends by Lorraine Wilson (Luna)

Tell Me An Ending by Jo Harkin (Penguin)

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang (Tor Books)

Mage of Fools by Eugen Bacon (Meerkat Press)

Things They Lost by Okwiri Oduor (Simon & Schuster - International / Oneworld Publications - uk)

Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro (Flatiron Books).

Best Novella

The Entropy of Loss by Stewart Hotston (NewCon Press)

Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy by Sam J Miller (Solaris)

The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)

Queen of the High Fields by Rihannon Grist (Luna Press)

Gigi Ganguly, One Arm Shorter Than The Other by Gigi Ganguly (Atthis Books)

Rosebud by Paul Cornell

Uncommon Charm by Emily Bergslien and Kat Weaver (Neon Hemlock)

Best Short Story

The Lady of the Yellow Painted Library" by Tobi Ogundiran, in Africa Risen

This Excessive Use of Pickled Food by Leora Spitzer https://www.khoreomag.com/fiction/this-excessive-use-of-pickled-foods%EF%BF%BC/

I Will Have This Diamond for a Heart by Carlos Hernandez from "Uncanny Magazine."

The Two Faced Miracle of Justice Father Win by Susan Rukeyser https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spacecowboybooks/episodes/2022-08-15T04_20_20-07_00

Can i offer you a nice egg in this trying time by Iori Kusano (Uncanny Magazine) https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/can-i-offer-you-a-nice-egg-in-this-trying-time/ )

Now you’ll hear in the background regular screams of anguish as we try to decide who goes into the final round later this year but stay tuned for my thoughts over the coming months!