Thanks are due to Elizabeth Bear for reminding me to check out the 2026 Hugo Voter Packet. I wasn't planning on buying a voting membership for the 2026 WorldCon, but including 16 GB of ebooks in the voter packet made me reconsider.
Included are:
- Full ebooks of 4 of the 6 finalists for best novel. Unfortunately the one I was most interested in, Adrian Tchaikovsky's SHROUD, is only an excerpt as is A DROP OF CORRUPTION by Robert Jackson Bennett.
- All of the short fiction finalists.
- Most of the finalists for best series:, 36 books in total!
- Many ebooks from finalists for the Lodestar Award, the Astounding Award, and best editor (long form).
- Most of the finalists for the other awards.
It's a huge amount of fiction and non-fiction. Most books are in EPUB format, some are PDFs, and some also include audiobooks in MP3 format.
It is not cheap ($50 US), but given that it includes several books that I likely would have bought, it's worth it. (Just INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE by Ada Palmer would justify the cost). And there's so much more. It'll keep me reading all summer.
And of course, you get to vote for the Hugo Awards. I have a lot of reading to do before the voting deadline of Ausust 8.
No comments:
Post a Comment