The 2026 Hugo Award finalists are up. Awkward for me: I really like many of the nominees, but I haven't read (seen, played) a majority of any category. So I can't give a useful overview or say that any given work is "best of the year". I'll just recommend a bunch! (I am not registered for Worldcon this year. I attended last year, which makes me eligible to vote this year, but I didn't submit nominations. I might vote in the finals though.) Novel: A Drop of Corruption (Robert Jackson Bennett) is an enormously readable fantasy-meatpunk mystery... with kaiju. (Series; book two is now out.) Shroud (Adrian Tchaikovsky) is the old-school genre of "humans visit alien planet -- badly." (Haven't seen one of those since Dragon's Egg.) The Incandescent (Emily Tesh) is magical-college but from the teacher's side, which I thought was very interesting. Ending maybe doesn't hold together but it's still a good read. The Raven Scholar (Antonia Hodgson) is an entertaining court succession crisis. I…
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