ShannonA
06-23-2008, 11:44 PM
The Locus award winners for 2008 have been announced:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=56553
It's always the novels that excite me the most:
SF Novel: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Fantasy Novel: Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Young Adult Book: Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
First Novel: Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
It's apparently been a good year, because I've already read two of these.
Un Lun Dun I thought was OK, but no better. Somehow the YA books that everyone raves about don't enthuse me.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union was a very good book that would have been great if it hadn't started to drag at the end, however I disagree with its classification as a genre book. It's a detective novel that happens to be set in an alternative world where the Jewish people settled in Sitka Alaska rather than Israel. The alternate history isn't really an integral part of the story, other than creating its setting.
I've heard some people suggest that it won a Locus (and earlier a Nebula) mainly because people want to claim Chabon--who is truly a magnificent writer--as one of their own. Maybe.
To complete my sweep, I've gone ahead and put the other two books on request at my local library.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=56553
It's always the novels that excite me the most:
SF Novel: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Fantasy Novel: Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Young Adult Book: Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
First Novel: Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
It's apparently been a good year, because I've already read two of these.
Un Lun Dun I thought was OK, but no better. Somehow the YA books that everyone raves about don't enthuse me.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union was a very good book that would have been great if it hadn't started to drag at the end, however I disagree with its classification as a genre book. It's a detective novel that happens to be set in an alternative world where the Jewish people settled in Sitka Alaska rather than Israel. The alternate history isn't really an integral part of the story, other than creating its setting.
I've heard some people suggest that it won a Locus (and earlier a Nebula) mainly because people want to claim Chabon--who is truly a magnificent writer--as one of their own. Maybe.
To complete my sweep, I've gone ahead and put the other two books on request at my local library.