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I'm reading the Hugo Award nominee / Campbell Award nominee novels. I've read Stross's Neptune's Brood, Corriea's GrimNoir series, Grant's Parasite of the Hugo Award nominees. I will probably by the Leckie soon, and start The Wheel of Time, but don't know if I'll be able to finish it. Of the three that I've read, I like Neptune's Brood the best. Neptune's Brood and Parasite both have protagonists that learn major things about themselves towards the end of the novel, but I think Stross did it better. Since Parasite is the first of trilogy, one might allow for the cliff-hanger, but I was more, meh, but I probably can't say more without spoilers.
For the Campbell finalists, I read and like both of Ramez Naam's Nexus novels (high tech nanotech computer interface/AI thrillers), and I'm reading Max Gladstone's second fantasy/mystery where the gods are real with a modern feel to it, and the first one is very good. I haven't read the other authors yet, but it's going to be hard to pick my favorite between these two.
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