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queentess · 05-27-2009, 03:33 PM

I've read all of these except Saturn's Children, and my vote goes to Little Brother. It's not perfect (parts of it were steeped in minutiae), but overall it was very good.

IMO Zoe's Tale sucked. I don't even understand why it was nominated. It was a poor excuse of a novel written to tie up the loose ends that should have been explained in The Lost Colony. Instead, Scalzi decided to go all deus ex machina and then crank out another book to provide an explanation. And what's worse, it was a book with a teenager who has a witty retort for every single comment ever uttered. Meh. (That said, I loved the other books in the Old Man's War series!)

05-27-2009, 03:33 PM	#7
queentess Reading is sexy Posts: 1,303 Karma: 544517 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: none	I've read all of these except Saturn's Children, and my vote goes to Little Brother. It's not perfect (parts of it were steeped in minutiae), but overall it was very good. IMO Zoe's Tale sucked. I don't even understand why it was nominated. It was a poor excuse of a novel written to tie up the loose ends that should have been explained in The Lost Colony. Instead, Scalzi decided to go all deus ex machina and then crank out another book to provide an explanation. And what's worse, it was a book with a teenager who has a witty retort for every single comment ever uttered. Meh. (That said, I loved the other books in the Old Man's War series!) Last edited by queentess; 05-28-2009 at 07:23 PM.