I’m a bit late with this — sorry Gary — but the results of this year’s Crawford Award (for a debut fantasy book) have been announced. The winner was The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson which is indeed a very fine book. With so many books to cover these days, not all of the judging group gets to read every book, but I can also recommend The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (Natasha Pulley), The Grace of Kings (Ken Liu) and The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Seth Dickinson). The Devourers (Indra Das) was only published in India but will apparently be out in the USA this year so I’ll snap up a copy. I know nothing about The Daughters (Adrienne Celt), but those who read it spoke highly of it so I’ll look for that one too.

Maybe this year I can get started on the reading list early. Hmm, what’s this All the Birds in the Sky thing…