I wasn't a big fan of Old Man's War, so I haven't really bothered with anything else by Scalzi.
I really disliked Feed, and I'm just about to finish its equally bad sequel Deadline (although weirdly my expectations were low enough that it hasn't annoyed me so much.) the only way I'm going to read Blackout is if it, too, gets on the Hugo short list. And then I might decide not to sign up to vote next time.
The rest of them are mostly interesting to me. Saladin Ahmed and NK Jemisin are writers worth watching. The consensus is that the last couple of Temeraire books have gone off the boil, but I still enjoyed Tongues of Serpents.
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