It's Time to Meet The Nominees on The Subjective Kind of Chaos Showwwww
It’s time to play the music!!
It’s time to light the lights!!
It’s time to release the shortlists!!!
Yes there has been a lot of head-scratching, pain, despair and as per usual chaos but after deliberations there has to be a shortlist and it is my pleasure to announce this year’s 2021 nominees!!
Best Short Story
Tiger Lawyer Gets It right by Sarah Gailey (Escape Pod - the Science Fiction Anthology)
Convergence in Chorus Architecture - Dare Segun Falowo (Dominion:An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora)
In Kind by Kayla Whaley (Vampires Never Get Old: Tales With Fresh Bite)
Volumes by Laura Duerr (Cast of Wonders Volume 435)
You Perfect Broken Thing by CL Clark (Uncanny Magazine)
Yellow and the Perception of Reality - Maureen F. McHugh
Juice Like Wounds - Seanan McGuire
Best Novella
Upright Women by Sarah Gailey
The Four Profound Leaves by RB Lemberg
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Sweet Harmony by Claire North
Ring Shout by P Djeli Clark
Best Series
Dominion of the Fallen by Aliette de Bodard
Islands of Blood and Storm by Kacen Callender
Sweet Black Waves by Kristina Perez
The Poppy War by RF Kuang
Daevabad by SA Chakraborty
Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
Best Debut
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A Brown
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
Best Blurred Boundary
The City We Became by N K Jemisin
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Best Science Fiction
Deal With The Devil by Kit Rocha
Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
Goldilocks by LR Lam
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Repo Virtual by Corey S White
Best Fantasy
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow
The Midnight Bargain by CL Polk
Comet Weather by Liz Williams
The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by KS Villoso
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
That’s it!! I knowwwww this is going to be HARD!! This year I’m in first round juries for SF, Fantasy and Debuts so expect some reviews next month as we get our teeth choosing our finalists for each category! Join in!! Have fun!!
