![]() ![]() Station Eleven was her breakout, and it's sure enough Science Fiction. Mandel (a Canadian who lives in New York) has written three other novels, which seem to be mysteries of some sort, with literary chops. John Mandel's Station Eleven is a book I have just read, prompted by the praise of Mark Tiedemann, and by the fact it was selected for the book club Mark runs at Left Bank Books in the Central West End of St. Where to go? How about outside the traditional genre writers? Emily St. But in all honesty, while all these books are fine, none struck me as obvious no doubt about it Hugo winners. There were good books there: Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy (actually on the short list), Jo Walton's My Real Children, Charles Gannon's Trial By Fire, Andy Weir's The Martian, Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation. But what books might those be? To be honest, the extended nomination ballot wasn't tremendously inspiring. The eventual winner for Best Novel was a decent book, The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu but it was clear to me there were better books out there. ![]() The 2015 Hugos were famously corrupted by a slate of nominations sponsored primarily by Vox Day, called the Rabid Puppies. ![]()
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