Hugos: Last few short stories

"Bridecicle" by Will McIntosh

I quite liked this. Very archetypical sf short, somewhat heavy handed allegory about gender and society and stuff but it didn't go to the overly dark place I thought it was going and made it's point reasonably well.

"Bride of Frankenstein"

This is better written, the prose flows lightly and has a clever humour to it, but the basic premise ("Lol! Imagine if Frankenstein's wife was a whiny shrew!") is a creaky collection of stereotypes saying nothing very interesting.

"The Moment" by Lawrence M. Schoen

I liked this when it was a deeply implausible stream of space-opera-ish pseudo-history, but not when it took itself seriously.

Hugos: rest of the graphic stories

These are all series I was already familiar with, which speeds up the reading process.

"Girl Genius, Volume 9 Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm": Made. Of. Awesome. Steampunk about mad geniuses in pseudo-Europe. It's slowed down a bit recently but this particular storyline is still great.

"Schlock Mercenary: The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse": I mostly like Schlock Mercenary, it's fun clever space opera despite it's flaws (though they do grate a bit), and this plot was ok.

"FABLES: THE DARK AGES": Reading Fables (about fairy tale characters living in the modern day) always gives me a bad taste in my mouth and I'm not sure why. The premise and characters are interesting, and it's well written and very nicely illustrated but...I just don't like it. I read the first pdf to make sure I disliked this as much as the previous volumes I've read and I did.