Awards are given for best short story, best novelette, best novella, and best novel. The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation (films), and the Andre Norton Awards for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy round out the list of awards. The full list of nominees is available on the SFWA site. Of the six titles on the ballot for best novel, five are available for Kindle readers:
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest. Tor. Print Length: 416 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (69 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. If it just me or is that Angelina Jolie on the cover of Boneshaker? Perhaps a film in the offing?
"In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history..." - publisher.
The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak. Bantam. Print Length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (9 reviews). Kindle edition $9.60. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"...a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of several strangers are gently linked through love, loss, and fate. On a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man’s life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives - and in that moment they become almost as one. In a small village a disaffected American teenager stranded in a strange land discovers compassion after an encounter with an enigmatic red fox, and in Tokyo a girl named Love learns the deepest lessons about its true meaning from a coma patient lost in dreams of an affair gone wrong. From the neon colors of Tokyo, with its game centers and karaoke bars, to the bamboo groves and hidden shrines of the countryside, these souls and others mingle, revealing a profound tale of connection - uncovering the love we share without knowing." - www.randomhouse.com.
Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman. Book one of The Vineart War series. Pocket. Print Length: 384 p. Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (38 reviews). Kindle edition $14.30. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Young Jerzy, a vineyard slave, possesses the rare and extraordinary ability of the Vinearts, magicians who create spellwines from the most potent grapes. When someone begins sabotaging the fields of the traditionally reclusive winemakers, it is up to Jerzy and his master to save their way of life. A slow build of tension as Jerzy progresses from slave to student to spy keeps the reader engaged without any need for frenetic fight scenes. The tale is dominated by vivid, absorbing characters, and Jerzy's powerful narrative voice makes his joys and sorrows dramatic, authentic and potent. This intoxicating high fantasy will satisfy oenophiles and bibliophiles alike." - Publishers Weekly.
The City & The City by China Mieville. Del Rey. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (98 reviews). Kindle edition $14.30. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"...unique spin on the detective story. Inspector Tyador Borlu, a lonely police detective, is assigned to the murder of a young woman found dumped in a park on the edge of Beszel, an old city, decaying and mostly forgotten, situated in an unspecified area on the southeastern fringes of Europe. But Beszel does not exist alone; it shares much of the same physical space with Ul Qoma. Each city retains a distinct culture and style, and the citizenry of both places has elaborate rules and rituals to avoid the dreaded Breach, which separates the two across space and time. This unique setting becomes one of the most important and well-developed characters in the novel, playing a pivotal role in the mystery when Tyador discovers that his murder case is much more complex than a dumped body, requiring 'international' cooperation with the Ul Qoman authorities... An excellent police procedural and a fascinating urban fantasy, this is essential reading for all mystery and fantasy fans. --Jessica Moyer for Booklist.
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer. Underland Press. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (44 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled."...mysterious underground inhabitants known as the gray caps have reconquered the failed fantasy state Ambergris and put it under martial law. They have disbanded House Hoegbotton and are controlling the human inhabitants with strange addictive drugs, internment in camps, and random acts of terror. The rebel resistance is scattered, and the gray caps are using human labor to build two strange towers. Against this backdrop, John Finch, who lives alone with a cat and a lizard, must solve an impossible double murder for his gray cap masters while trying to make contact with the rebels. Nothing is as it seems as Finch and his disintegrating partner Wyte negotiate their way through a landscape of spies, rebels, and deception..." - Amazon.
The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi. Publisher: Night Shades Books. Print Length: 300 p. Amazon customer rating: Kindle edition not yet available. Hardcover: $16.47.
"...grim but beautifully written tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation. Capt. Jaidee Rojjanasukchai of the Thai Environment Ministry fights desperately to protect his beloved nation from foreign influences. Factory manager Anderson Lake covertly searches for new and useful mutations for a hated Western agribusiness. Aging Chinese immigrant Tan Hock Seng lives by his wits while looking for one last score. Emiko, the titular despised but impossibly seductive product of Japanese genetic engineering, works in a brothel until she accidentally triggers a civil war. This complex, literate and intensely felt tale, which recalls both William Gibson and Ian McDonald at their very best..." - Publishers Weekly.
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