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Category Archive: Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards

The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards: 2020 nominees

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We’ve had a month of furiously reading 2019 releases we’d missed out on, agonising over shortlists, swearing about eligibility and generally testing the waters for incipient chaos. And now it’s time: here are the 2020 nominees for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards!

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February 1, 2020 2020, Features, Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards

The True Queen: more magical mayhem

Book cover: The True Queen - Zen Cho (decorated text, cyan on black, with a snake pendant around the title)When Muna loses her beloved sister in Fairyland, she turns to the Sorceress Royal for help. But the Fairy Queen is threatening to invade England if a stolen necklace isn’t returned. A missing sister is the least of Prunella’s worries…

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January 18, 2020 2020, Reviews

Awards, kind of: subjective with a hint of chaos

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I’m delighted to announce that the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards are back for 2020 – as subjective as ever and even more chaotic.

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January 12, 2020 2020, Reviews, Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards

The Bone Ships: best in class fantasy

Book cover: The Bone Ships - RJ BarkerWhen Lucky Meas seizes the Tide Child from Joron Twiner, she turns his understanding of the world on its head. The Tide Child is a ship of the dead – but what Meas has planned will see them die heroes or the worst sort of traitors…

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January 4, 2020 2020, Reviews

Space Opera Sunday: Steel Frame

Book cover: Steel Frame - Andrew SkinnerRook has a choice: volunteer for hazardous duty or stay on the chain gang. It’s no choice at all. But deep in Open Waters, something ancient and hungry is stirring. If Rook can’t stop it, death is coming for everyone.

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December 8, 2019 2020, Reviews

A Memory Called Empire: poetry and politics

Book title: A Memory Called Empire - Arkady MartineWhen Teixcalaan requests a new ambassador from Lsel Station and refuses to say why, the Council assume the worst. But it’s far worse than that…

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November 9, 2019 2020, Reviews, SciFiMonth 2019

Subjective Chaos: our 2019 award winners

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Another exhilarating year of Subjective Chaos has come to an end: in amongst the many events at Dublincon, we announced our 2019 winners – and celebrated as our 2019 Fantasy winner took home the Campbell for Best New Writer (don’t say we didn’t tell you). Enormous congratulations to Jeannette Ng!

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August 20, 2019 2019, Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards

This Is How You Lose The Time War

Book cover: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max GladstoneTwo forces compete for control of the future. Their agents do battle through time to nudge every possible world towards the outcomes they need. But now two of their best have made direct contact. Now the war is for their hearts and minds.

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July 18, 2019 2020, Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

Subjective Chaos: 2019 finalists

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We’ve had six long months of reading our way through our 5 categories and 36 nominees. We have bluntly shared our first impressions (privately, thank you) and subjectively picked our individual favourites. But who has made our final selection?

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July 13, 2019 2019, Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards

Throwback Thursday: Vicious

Book cover: Vicious - V E SchwabNobody knows what makes someone Extraordinary, but Eliot Cardale and Victor Vale are determined to find out. Once they’ve developed a thesis, the next logical step is to test it. But to become superhuman, they will have to risk everything…

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June 27, 2019 2019, Reviews

Semiosis: alien cultivation

Book cover: Semiosis - Sue BurkeThey fled Earth to make a fresh start. They called their new home Pax to reflect their hopes for the future they planned to build. But they are not alone. And their new neighbours do not see the world the same way…

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June 22, 2019 2019, Reviews

Subjective Chaos: how are we getting on?

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Back in January, an opinionated collective of bloggers and book lovers announced our shortlist for this year’s Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards. Six months later, where have we got to?

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June 15, 2019 2019, Features, Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards

Someone Like Me

Book cover: Someone Like Me - M R CareyLiz left her abusive husband, but she hasn’t been able to cut him out of her life. When an argument turns violent, something – or someone – awakens within her and helps her fight back. Liz’s life may never be the same again…

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May 5, 2019 2019, Reviews, Wyrd and Wonder 2019

The Unbound Empire (Swords and Fire #3)

Book cover: The Unbound Empire - Melissa Caruso (a woman in a flame-coloured ballgown seen from behind, merging into the outline of a flame-coloured crow in flight)Winter has come. The passes to Vaskandar are closed, holding Ruven at bay to brew his potion and cement his power. It’s time for Amalia to challenge the Empire and demand equality for the mage-marked. But snow is no barrier to a Witchlord…

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April 28, 2019 2020, Reviews

I Still Dream

Book cover: I Still Dream - James Smythe (I honestly have no idea but it's blue an orange and curvy)Laura needed someone to talk to, so she wrote Organon. She didn’t know what she’d created. She still doesn’t know what it’s capable of. But Organon will change the world… for better or for worse.

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April 13, 2019 2020, Reviews

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