2022 Canadian Science Fiction And Fantasy Association Hall Of
Fame Inductees:
Julie E. Czerneda
Ed Greenwood
Hayden Trenholm

2022 Aurora Award Winners:
Best Novel: Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee, Orbit
Best YA Novel: Walking in Two Worlds, Wab Kinew, Penguin Teen
Best Novelette/Novella: The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee
Mohamed, ECW Press
Best Short Story: The Mathematics of Fairyland, Phoebe Barton,
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 129
Best Graphic Novel: It Never Rains, Kari Maaren, webcomic
Best Poem/Song: "Cat People Cafe", Carolyn Clink, Polar Starlight #3
Best Related Work: Alias Space and Other Stories, Kelly Robson,
Subterranean Press
Best Visual Presentation: Dune (2021), directed by Denis Villeneuve,
Legendary Entertainment
Best Artist: Samantha M. Beiko
Best Fan Writing and Publication: Polar Borealis, Issues #17 to #20,
edited by R. Graeme Cameron
Best Fan Organizational: When Words Collide, Randy McCharles, chair, online festival
Best Fan Related Work: Broadcasts from the Wasteland, Brandon
Crilly and Evan May, Podcast
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On 15/08/22 01:21, James Nicoll wrote:
snippage
>
> 2022 Aurora Award Winners:
> Best Novel: Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee, Orbit

From blurbs this appears standard fantasy fare although the 750 pages
includes 6 pages of complicated names of characters which made me
shudder enough to choose something else. Has anybody read it?

> Best Novelette/Novella: The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee
> Mohamed, ECW Press

Aaargh. One generous star from me. I'm thankful that I have forgotten
details.

On 2022-08-16, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
> On 15/08/22 01:21, James Nicoll wrote:
> snippage
>>
>> 2022 Aurora Award Winners:
>> Best Novel: Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee, Orbit
>
> From blurbs this appears standard fantasy fare although the 750 pages
> includes 6 pages of complicated names of characters which made me
> shudder enough to choose something else. Has anybody read it?

Exqueeze me? Have you never come across a fantasy novel with a Dramatis
Personae at the back? Never read a Sanderson, Abercrombie or even Tolkien?
Complicated names? Like Aragorn Elessar? Khaladin Stormblessed? Or is it that
the names are "eastern"?

Yes, I've read all three of the Green Bone Saga. They're among the better
fantasy I've read in the last few years, albeit its modernist fantasy set in
an apparently contemporary technology alt-world (jets, cell phones, internet)
which isn't always to people's tastes.

It is as complex and interesting as any other fantasy of recent times, with
contesting families trying to maintain both control over a limited magical
resource, with one foot in legitimate businesses.

Definitely not one to read without having read the previous two in the trilogy
though, its in no way a standalone.

>> Best Novelette/Novella: The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee
>> Mohamed, ECW Press
>
> Aaargh. One generous star from me. I'm thankful that I have forgotten
> details.

On this we are agreed. I DNF'd this after about thirty pages.
--
dgold <news@dgold.eu>

On 20/08/22 06:53, Daniel Goldsmith wrote:
> On 2022-08-16, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 15/08/22 01:21, James Nicoll wrote: snippage
>>>
>>> 2022 Aurora Award Winners: Best Novel: Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee,
>>> Orbit
>>
>> From blurbs this appears standard fantasy fare although the 750
>> pages includes 6 pages of complicated names of characters which
>> made me shudder enough to choose something else. Has anybody read
>> it?
>
> Exqueeze me? Have you never come across a fantasy novel with a
> Dramatis Personae at the back?

Yes. I have but 6 pages seems an awful lot.

Never read a Sanderson, Abercrombie or even Tolkien?
> Complicated names? Like Aragorn Elessar? Khaladin Stormblessed? Or is
> it that the names are "eastern"?

Yes. Both. A pet peeve has always been a complaint that Fantasy
characters have to have unusual names. Being eastern wouldn't matter to
me if the cast wasn't so large.

> Yes, I've read all three of the Green Bone Saga. They're among the
> better fantasy I've read in the last few years, albeit its modernist
> fantasy set in an apparently contemporary technology alt-world (jets,
> cell phones, internet) which isn't always to people's tastes.
>
> It is as complex and interesting as any other fantasy of recent
> times, with contesting families trying to maintain both control over
> a limited magical resource, with one foot in legitimate businesses.
>
> Definitely not one to read without having read the previous two in
> the trilogy though, its in no way a standalone.

I was not aware it was not standalone before buying so am now doubly
pleased that I got no further than the character list. Thank you for
your opinions, overview and advice. I now have a copy of Jade City.

>>> Best Novelette/Novella: The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee
>>> Mohamed, ECW Press
>>
>> Aaargh. One generous star from me. I'm thankful that I have
>> forgotten details.
>
> On this we are agreed. I DNF'd this after about thirty pages.