Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels discussion

So we have a monthly theme for mid-year (July I think) that we are repeating from this past year. It's Finish-a-Year/Finish-an-Author. The idea is that each individual nominates a book that, for them, would be the final book to scratch off a full year's ballot or a full author's H/N bibliography. We then vote on those books and help the winner cross that finish line.

I was looking ahead to think about what to nominate (since I'm way ahead of the game this December) and came up with some authors that the group as a whole is one book away from completing. Now, I realize that no one has actually read all the group reads (Allan is the closest I believe), so these may not match your progress, but they are potentially eligible. I'm excluding One-Hit Wonders and the 2020s shelf.

Leigh Brackett: Shadow Over Mars
Cory Doctorow: Little Brother
Ann Leckie: Provenance
Maureen F. McHugh: Mission Child
Elizabeth Moon: The Speed of Dark
Terry Pratchett: Making Money
Olaf Stapledon: Darkness and the Light
Neal Stephenson: Anathem
Theodore Sturgeon: Venus Plus X
Catherynne M. Valente: Palimpsest
Jack Vance: Suldrun's Garden
Jeff VanderMeer: Finch
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Slaughterhouse-Five
Jo Walton: Farthing


But what I also found interesting in doing this process, are all the authors we haven't read a single book by yet in this group. Maybe we could think about Start an Author as a future theme?

Jack McDevitt (12)
Gene Wolfe (10)
E. E. Doc Smith (5)
Charles E. Gannon (4)
C.S. Lewis (4)
Ken MacLeod (4)
Bruce Sterling (4) -- excluding The Difference Engine
John Varley (4)
John Barnes (3)
Michael Bishop (3)
Marion Zimmer Bradley (3)
Algis Budrys (3)
Thomas M. Disch (3)
Yoon Ha Lee (3)
Ian McDonald (3)
James K. Morrow (3)
Tim Powers (3)
Michael Swanwick (3)
A.E. van Vogt (3)
Jane Yolen (3)
+ 22 authors with 2 books nominated, I'm not going to list them all

Sounds good to me. There are some good authors on that list.

And then there's E. E. Doc Smith. Geez...