[Laurablue]

This is my first year voting in the Hugos. I think I will be able to make it through all the novels except for WoT but I also have mixed feelings about the fairness of a series competing against single novels. I figure since I won't be able to read it, I will just rank the other 4 and leave the 5th place blank.
I am really glad that I decided to vote because I normally don't read "space operas" but I was really impressed with the character development in Ancillary Justice. I also probably wouldn't have read Parasite because I couldn't get into Feed, by Mira Grant, but Parasite is compelling me to finish it. I will say it does read to me much like a Young Adult novel (and I read quite a bit of YA in horror and sci-fi genre). I'm trying to read Saturn's Children before I read Neptune's Brood. Out of the five nominees I would have read Warbound for sure, so it's amusing to me that it's presence is considered to be illegitimate based on the fan campaign. I didn't even realize until this year that I could buy a voting membership in the Hugo Awards, and I heard about the possibility here, not on any authors' blogs. I wonder if these kinds of fan campaigns will just seem normal in a few year's time, and the Hugo Awards will be voted for by a large minority rather than a small minority of readers?

Edited to add - thanks tompe, for commenting that the Stross book is not really a sequel. I will just skip ahead to reading Neptune's Brood.