Science fiction award-season: honors for Scalzi, Cadigan, Lafferty, Vaughan, Nielsen Hayden, Crabapple and more

The Girl-thing Who Went Out For Sushi was a good solid story, but was my third choice; Seanan McGuire’s In Sea-Salt Tears was wonderful (but it doesn’t stand alone; you probably have to have read all the novels in the series it’s set in for it to make any impact), and Cat Valente’s Fade to White was also a strong nominee.

Overall there was a lot of really solid fiction.