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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I don't know... I was rather of fond of de Bodard's "The Jaguar House, in Shadow."
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That was a nice enough story with a pleasantly unusual setting, and I think I gave it 3rd place in the ranked voting.
But the 2009 Hugo packet was a lot stronger in the novelette department, IMHO, and had Peter Watts' visceral and insightful
The Island (
free ePub on his website), a funny Charles Stross Laundry story, a really imaginative Eugie Foster story, and some well-written if not all that imaginative stuff from Rachel Swirsky and Paul Cornell.
Only one dud in the lot, so 2010 just seemed a lot weaker by comparison because basically almost all the stories were merely okay to read, and to my reading fell well short of "this will stand the test of time" potentially great.