forestofglory

Of course I'm terribly disappointed.

But it's not as bad as it could be. The novels didn't get controlled. The novella and novelette categories both appear to have at least one entry (and possibly multiple ones) that I could vote for over No Award, which is a change from last year. (In fact, last year's were so bad that I think I only voted two total entries below No Award in the short fiction categories; the rest were so bad I couldn't even rank them.) The short stories, well, we won't talk about those. Or Related Work, which I'm personally even more bitter about, the only saving grace this year being that it was a much weaker year (in my opinion) than last year for related work.

I'll be interested to see what got knocked off the ballot. My prediction is that Ursula Vernon and Aliette de Bodard got robbed.