Last year, I was so overwhelmed and dispirited by the process of voting for the Hugos that I never blogged about my votes. By the time the awards were announced, I forgot exactly what my ballot was.
This year, I am going to try blogging about one category at a time. Since I can submit partial ballots as I go, I'm going to try finishing a category, voting on it, then blogging about my votes. Quotes are from my Goodreads reviews.
1. Selkie Stories Are For Losers: "The most impressive thing, to me, about the story was that I started out
thinking, "What the heck is a selkie," and ended the story feeling like
I had a good grasp of the mythology. OK, I googled to find out that
it's some sort of fey creature, but I'm not sure if the specifics are
part of the folklore or were invented for this story. So the author very
economically painted a picture of the fantasy background, in a story
that mostly dealt with non-fantasy things."
2. If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love: "It's a quirky and ultimately very moving story, but it feels a little thin, especially as a work of fantasy."
3. The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere: "The fantasy premise was very thin (all of a sudden, people start getting soaked with water when they tell a lie), and it seemed like a mostly unnecessary embellishment on the story. Still, it was a well-written story about a man trying to come out to his family. It just felt like a story with a giant metaphor hanging over it."
4. The Ink Readers of Doi Saket: I didn't write a review of it. It just didn't click with me.
5. No Award: I did not dislike any of the stories enough to wish that the award be withheld rather than given to one of them.
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