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In Science Fiction, some awards have become almost meaningless as they came to be dominated by interests other than the pure enjoyment of a truly good story. The Hugo Awards, for example, have descended into a left/right catfight. They have become as meaningless as a Nobel Peace Prize.
Some, like yours truly, have entirely stopped reading about awards after getting burned once too many times and rely almost entirely on word of mouth or serendipity to find new authors and worthwhile books.
Our recent discussion of "The winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards" brought the idea (from bzipitidoo) that perhaps Soylent News could do a better job of pointing out new works of Science Fiction that could be of interest to soylentils and janrinok supported the idea, going so far as offering a kidney to the best author. (I think he's British, so he might have meant a kidney pie. [Not true, but funny])
Mind you, we would need to separate Science Fiction from Sci-Fi, Fantasy and other genres that have been mishmashed into one by most publishers and awards organizations.
So what do you think? What is the best new author/book in Science Fiction?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Friday August 24 2018, @04:47PM
None of these series are complete as far as I know. I know I'm waiting on the next release of Spinward Fringe. The other two, I've not read all of the books, yet. And apparently, I accidentally skipped to book 4 on the Big Sigma Series. Which makes a whole lot of sense now. I seemed to be missing quite a bit between book one and 4 . . . (It didn't clearly mark itself as Book 4 and I didn't read the little section at the front that listed it as book 4.) Spinward Fringe defines itself as a Space Opera, not sure about the other two. I hadn't really gotten into Science Fiction books until recently. Probably the latest Science Fiction books I'd read before a couple years ago was C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy ("Out of the Silent Planet", "Perelandra", and "That Hideous Strength").
The Terran Republic Series by Charles E. Gannon. The first book "Fire with Fire" is available free on Baen Books: https://www.baen.com/fire-with-fire.html [baen.com] (There's a whole free library of stuff too: https://www.baen.com/allbooks/category/index/id/2012 [baen.com])
The Spinward Fringe Series by Randolph Lalonde. The first book "Spinward Fringe Origins" is available for free from various sources (Barnes & Noble, Amazon, etc): http://randolphlalonde.blogspot.com/2015/09/randolph-lalondes-free-ebooks.html [blogspot.com]
The Big Sigma Series by Joseph R. Lallo. I think the first book in this series was also free on my Nook. Seems to be available for free on Amazon too.
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