在過去的幾年裡，我一直在努力，但都沒能趕上星雲提名的小說。到此為止。今年3月，我們將至少閱讀一部小說，這部小說可以說是世界上最負盛名的科幻小說和奇幻小說獎。這裡有四個，都是2013年的。

《紅燈：第一縷光》琳達長田

If I can just skip to the point for people who don't like to read longer reviews, you should go ahead and grab right now, especially if you're into intelligent, cynical military SF. ...The tone of the novel is set right from the very first paragraph:

"There needs to be a war going on somewhere, Sergeant Vasquez. It's a fact of life. Without a conflict of decent size, too many international defense contractors will find themselves out of business. So if no natural war is looming, you can count on the DCs to get together to invent one."

- Tor.com

妮可·格裡菲斯的希爾德

Don't let the cover of Nicola Griffith's newest novel fool you. You won't find the typical medieval girl-in-a-dress novel. You'll read something completely different, otherworldly in its scope and beauty. ... In Hild, Roman roads crisscross the countryside. Fearsome sprites lurk in woods and water, and strange priests of the new god Christ, wearing long black skirts, roam the damp English countryside. Like sale**en, they promise regional kings victory in battle and many healthy s*** if they simply renounce their pagan gods and accept bapti**.

- Paste

凱倫·喬伊·福勒的《我們都完全瘋了》

What we readers come to suspect — and what we're finally told — is that Fern is a chimpanzee. Rosemary's father is a scientist studying animal behavior, and Rosemary and Fern were raised pretty much from birth to age 5 as twin sisters.

Fern believed she was human and, as Rosemary says, the mirroring went both ways. ... Fowler's **art and exquisitely sad novel provokes us to think about a lot of aspects of our relati***hip to animals that most of us would rather ignore. It also delves into other questi***. Do animals think? Can they empathize? Do they have long-term memories?

- NPR Books

安·萊基的輔助司法

Justice of Toren is a living ship far beyond AI, spending millennia carrying officers and troops for the Radchaai Empire's endless planetary annexati***. Those troops are ancillaries — sometimes called corpse soldiers — reanimated bodies that now share a single c***ciousness and act as one. Breq was once the ancillary One Esk and the ship Justice of Toren.

But now, separated in a moment of trauma, she's autonomous. It's a condition so rare no one suspects what she is. ... Though framed like '70s grindhouse — there was a setup, and someone's out to clean the slate — things unfold studiously, reminiscent of the deliberation underscoring Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness.

- NPR Books

投票將於美國東部時間3月7日星期五下午3點結束，我們將於下週開始。