Well it has been a feast of reading once again for this years Subjective Chaos Kind of Award 2021. Our old and new judges have once again dscovered the pleasure of reading to deadline and making painful decisions. It has been though a genuinely positive experience and once again I’ve found books I’d missed and am very glad to have finally had a chance to read them. But as always we need to create our finalists from the shortlists and this year we have the following to decide between

Best Short Fiction

You Perfect, Broken Thing by CL Clark

Yellow and the Perception of Reality by Maureen F McHugh

Best Novella

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

Ring Shout by P Djeli Clark

Best Series

Dominion of The Fallen by Aliette de Bodard

The Poppy War by RF Kuang

Best Debut

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Best Blurred Boundary

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Best Science Fiction

Goldilocks by Laura Lam

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Best Fantasy

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow

The Midnight Bargain by CL Polk

A warm congratulations to all our finalists and our wider shortlist entries. We intend to have the winners announced by the end of October! Let the chaos reign!!!