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1. I have said many times I’m not keen on book x of y getting into the Hugos for that reason, but to be honest I didn’t think it would make much difference. I don’t think I missed much.

   I’m not a huge MilSF fan anyway, so the general dialog didn’t grip me, nor did I find the characters all that interesting. But what I really detested was:
   – It’s the future, except everything is the same as now except the big spaceships and FTL – neural computers get mentioned but don’t do much
   – People dumber than now – kinetic energy weapons? The whole random scientist just happens to work out something that the entire Earth military haven’t? Don’t buy that, especially since the final solution was used in a Larry Niven novel about 40 years ago
   – Some truly horrible science errors – ‘the debris cloud was still accelerator at a quarter gee’, seeing the ‘flash’ from the collision after it happens almost 2 AU away with no mention of an ansible?

   I have more, but that’s the headlines. Maybe some of this was covered in the first one, especially how they ended up in the Soylent Green world, but it’s not encouraged me to read another of his.

   Ancillary Sword was much better, and I had already decided not to put that top as it’s a Book 2 anyway.

   I’m almost certainly not going to read the Butcher, see my book x of y thing, plus I read the first 2 or 3 and didn’t much like them.

   I’m curious about the Andersen, but that’s the start of a new series, which also puts me off and again, I don’t think we should be nominating series to the Hugos.

   The Goblin Emperor is good so far though.

   But one of the terrible things about this mess is the lack of choice on the ballot.

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