It has been brought to my attention, by several critics, that we of the Rabid Puppies have unfairly focused our attention on the Hugo Awards, and that it is only due to the unique nature of the Hugo Awards rules that our presence is able to make itself felt.It has been suggested, for example, that were we to turn our attention to other awards in the field, with other, more democratic systems, that our dearth of numbers would become apparent to all and sundry.Which is why, sweet, slavering Puppies, I would direct your attention to the venerable Locus Awards, that bastion of science fiction history, where Tor Books has won the Best Publisher award for 27 straight years, and which we are informed is more representative of the science fiction mainstream than the elitist Hugo and Nebula Awards. For those of you who were unable to afford the entry fee or otherwise missed registering for MidAmericaCon II, this is your opportunity to respond to the Call of the Dark and run with the Puppies.You can enter your ballot here ; though keep in mind that the voting ends in one week, on April 15th. My recommendations are as follows, although in many cases you will have to write them in, since Locus mysteriously tends to leave books published by Baen Books and Castalia House off its list of recommendations.An unfortunate oversight, no doubt.UPDATE: SJW author Matthew Woodring Stover doesn't take the idea of expanded inclusivity well.It's rather cute that he thinks he would be permitted an audience with the Supreme Dark Lord. Now, where were we? Ah, yes.1 Golden Son, Pierce Brown (Del Rey)2 Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)3 Somewhither, John C. Wright (Castalia House)4 Agent of the Imperium, Marc Miller, (Far Future)5 A Borrowed Man, Gene Wolfe (Tor)1 Son of the Black Sword, Larry Correia (Baen)2 The Aeronaut's Windlass, Jim Butcher (Roc)3 Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)4 The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)5. A Net of Dawn and Bones, C. Chancy (Amazon Digital Services)1 Half a War, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Harper Voyager UK)2 Half the World, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey)3 The Shepherd's Crown, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)1 Agent of the Imperium, Marc Miller (Far Future)2 Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan UK)3 The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu (Saga)4 Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)5 The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury)1 Dancing Through the Fire, Tanith Lee (Fantastic Books)2 Three Moments of an Explosion, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey 2016)3 The Best of Gregory Benford, Gregory Benford (Subterranean)4 Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction, Hannu Rajaniemi (Tachyon)5 Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, Neil Gaiman (Morrow)1 There Will Be War Vol X, Jerry Pournelle (Castalia House)2 Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan, Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington, eds. (Haikasoru)3 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-second Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)4 Old Venus, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam)5 The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, Joe Hill & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)1 SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, Vox Day (Castalia House)2 Beyond Light and Shadow, Marc Aramini (Castalia House)3 The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks, Simone Caroti (McFarland)4 Ray Bradbury, David Seed (University of Illinois Press)5 The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales, Jeffrey Shanks and Justin Everette, (Rowman & Littlefield)1 Julie Dillon, Julie Dillon's Imagined Realms, Book 2: Earth and Sky (self-published)2 Petar Meseldžija, The Book of Giants (Flesk)3 The Fantasy Illustration Library, Volume One: Lands & Legends, Malcolm R. Phifer & Michael C. Phifer (Michael Publishing)1 Fear of the Unknown and Self-Loathing in Hollywood, Nick Cole (Tales of Tinfoil)2 Penric's Demon, Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum)3 Perfect State, Brandon Sanderson (Dragonsteel Entertainment)4 Teaching the Dog to Read, Jonathan Carroll (Subterranean)5 Slow Bullets, Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon Publications)1 Flashpoint: Titan, Cheah Kai Wai, There Will Be War Vol. X (Castalia House)2 Folding Beijing, Hao Jingfang (Uncanny Magazine)3 What Price Humanity?, David VanDyke, There Will Be War Vol. X (Castalia House)4 Hyperspace Demons, Jonathan Moeller (Castalia House)5 Obits, Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (Scribner)1 Space Raptor Butt Invasion, Chuck Tingle (Amazon Digital Services)2 Seven Kill Tiger, Charles Shao, There Will Be War Vol. X (Castalia House)3 If You Were an Award, My Love, Juan Tabo and S. Harris (Vox Popoli)4 The Commuter, Thomas Mays (Amazon Digital Services)5 Asymmetrical Warfare, S. R. Algernon (Nature Nr. 519)1 Black Gate2 File 7703 Analog4 Asimovs5 Sci-Phi Journal1 Castalia House2 Baen3 Gollancz4 Orbit5 Del Rey1 Jerry Pournelle2 Vox Day3 Mike Braff4 Toni Weisskopf5 Jim Minz1 Michael Whelan2 Rowena Morill3 Lars Braad Andersen4 Michael Karcz5 Larry Elmore

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