"Carefully unfolding the cloth, Viv revealed a roll as big as her fist, almost too large to imagine eating. Soft bread wound in a spiral, with dark sugar and cinnamon nestled between the rings, and a thick, creamy glaze frosted the top and dripped down the sides."

😭 I'm very hungry right now and it is the time of night when I cannot find a freshly baked cinnamon roll out and about. Contemplating waking up early tomorrow for a cinnamon roll before work. 😌

The nominations for this year's Hugos are in! (one of the big SFF awards, along with the Nebulas and Locus) Which have you read? Which would you recommend? https://www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/ I don't know if it's new this time, but they also include works that were nominated by withdrawn for various reasons (I know there's been a lot of controversy in the past with opaqueness around nominations).

Including the lists for some of the larger categories below, with a ✅ if I read it and ⭐ if I really enjoyed it.

Best Novel ⭐✅A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow; Gollancz) Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) ⭐✅The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK) ✅The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (Tor US; Orbit UK) ⭐✅The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape)

Best Novella Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) Cinder House by Freya Marske (Tordotcom; Tor UK) ⭐✅Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite (Tordotcom) ⭐✅The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia UK) ✅The Summer War by Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK) ⭐✅What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)

Best Series ⭐✅Emily Wilde by Heather Fawcett (Del Rey US; Orbit UK) ✅October Daye by Seanan McGuire (Tor US; DAW) ✅Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK) ⭐✅The Chronicles of Osreth by Katherine Addison (Tor US; Solaris UK; Subterranean) The Craft Wars by Max Gladstone (Tor; Tordotcom) White Space by Elizabeth Bear (Saga Press; Gollancz)

Lodestar Award for Best YA Book Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman (Random House Books for Young Readers) Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by C.B. Lee (Feiwel & Friends) ⭐✅Holy Terrors by Margaret Owen (Henry Holt; Hodderscape UK) Oathbound by Tracy Deonn (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press) ✅They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (sponsored by Dell Magazines) Sophie Burnham (2nd year of eligibility) ✅Kamilah Cole (2nd year of eligibility) ⭐✅Antonia Hodgson (1st year of eligibility) Molly O’Neill (1st year of eligibility) H.H. Pak (2nd year of eligibility) Jared Pechaček (2nd year of eligibility)

Hi! I usually read a lot of dystopias but I'd like to read books that would help me envision a positive post-capitalist society. So far I think I've only come across The Monk and the Robot by Becky Chambers and I really really loved it. Do you have any similar recs ?

I’ve been reading a lot of epic fantasy lately and I’ve found they tend to fall in one of these two camps, and I am finding that I vastly prefer the singular POV. I can understand why an ensemble is appealing from a worldbuilding perspective, but I just get significantly more invested when I am limited to one or two primary perspectives. The Way of Kings has 3 and that seems to be the limit of my preference (and even then I spent the time with one of those characters waiting for the other 2 to come back oops).

That being said, I can appreciate a prologue/epilogue/interlude that briefly pulls back from the main character’s perspective and shows a different part of the world, as long as it does return to the MC when the story picks back up (thinking about the prologues/epilogues of The Broken Earth and The Poppy War trilogies here). There’s a bit more novelty to the lore drops that way for me personally, I think.

What about y’all? Which do you prefer?