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DrNefario
Posted 2014-08-26 7:44 AM (#8372 - in reply to #8335)
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Location: UK		I feel like I have an easy option and a hard option, and I can't make up my mind which to go for. I'm leaning towards the easy option, given that I want to take it much easier next year.

My selection criteria were that I should already have several of the books, and should already be intending to read some of them in the near future. Obviously I also need to have not read anything on the shortlist, which ruled out most of the SF awards. This left me with:

Mythopoeic 2014
World Fantasy 2013 or 2014
Morningstar 2012 or 2013

The Morningstar is the one I consider the easy option. Epic fantasy is what I'd read if left alone to flow downhill and settle into my comfort zone. Obviously there's plenty of variation in quality and imagination, but I think I'd be happy enough reading all ten of those books. When I started looking I had two books in each of the two years, now I have four for 2013 and three for 2012. I'm not happy with the lack of women in 2013.

The World Fantasy I've decided to rule out. I had three books each for the two years in question. The 2014 award hasn't been given yet, and that seems like cheating. It also has six nominees, one of which doesn't much appeal to me. The 2013 award appeals slightly less, and Crandolin doesn't seem to have an ebook edition in the UK.

Which leaves me with the 2014 Mythopoeic. This has two books in common with the 2014 WFA, I own three of the five nominees, and of the other two, The Ghost Bride is the only one which sounds like it might not be my kind of thing.

So really it's Mythopoeic 2014 vs Morningstar 2012 or 2013. Maybe I'll end up doing all three, but I guess I'll still need to pick one to show on the challenge page.

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