The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards is another set of honors from a collection of book critics, in this case –

• Adri, from Nerds of a Feather
• C, from The Middle Shelf
• Imyril, from There’s Always Room for One More
• Jane, from Dumpy Little Unicorn
• KJ, from Worlds in Ink
• Kris, from Cloaked Creators
• Matt aka Womble, from Runalong The Shelves
• Sara, from The Fantasy Inn

Eligible for the awards are works from 2019 that were either:

• published for the first time in any format
• republished after substantial revision (e.g. a novella became a novel)
• printed for the first time in English; in the UK; and/or by a major publisher having previously had a self-published or independent release

…where the original work was published no earlier than 2009.

With those rules in mind, here are The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards: 2020 nominees.

Best Fantasy

• The Ten Thousand Doors of January – Alix E Harrow
• The Gilded Wolves – Roshani Chokshi
• Gods of Jade and Shadow – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The True Queen – Zen Cho
• Kingdom of Souls – Rena Barron
• The Bone Ships – RJ Barker
• Realm of Ash – Tasha Suri

Best SF

• A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine
• Ancestral Night – Elizabeth Bear
• Wanderers – Chuck Wendig
• Velocity Weapon – Megan O’Keefe
• The Outside – Ada Hoffman
• All City – Alex diFrancesco
• Steel Frame – Andrew Skinner
• Fleet of Knives – Gareth L Powell

Best Blurred Boundaries

• Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
• The Last Supper Before Ragnarok – Cassandra Khaw
• The Infinite Noise – Lauren Shippen
• David Mogo, Godhunter – Suyi Davies Okungbowa
• The Strawberry Thief – Joanne Harris
• The Migration – Helen Marshall
• The Kingdom – Jesse Rothenburg
• The Institute – Stephen King

Best Novella

• Incompleteness Theories – Wole Talabi
• Silver in the Wood – Emily Tesh
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate – Becky Chambers
• We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff – Isabel Waidner
• This Is How You Lose The Time War – Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
• The Deep – Rivers Solomon
• Walking to Aldebaran – Adrian Tchaikovsky

Best Series

• Luna – Ian McDonald
• Elemental Logic – Laurie Marks
• Rosewater – Tade Thompson
• Winternight – Katherine Arden
• Empires of Dust – Anna Smith Spark
• Swords and Fire – Melissa Caruso
• Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovksy
• The Winnowing Flame – Jen Williams

Short fiction

• Doll Seed – Michele Tracy Berger (FIYAH Literary Magazine Issue 11)
• In This Moment, We Are Happy – Chen Qiufan tr. Rebecca Kuang (Clarkesworld 155)
• Even When the World Has Told Us We Have Ended – Cat Hellisen
• “This Book Will Find You” – Sam Beckbessinger, Lauren Beukes & Dale Halvorsen (THE OUTCAST HOURS)
• The Blanched Bones, The Tyrant Wind – Karen Osborne (Fireside Fiction)
• Do Not Look Back, My Lion – Alix E. Harrow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• The Migration Suite: A Study in C Sharp Minor – Maurice Broaddus (Uncanny Magazine)
• The Ocean That Fades Into Sky – Kathleen Kayembe (Lightspeed Magazine)
• In Regards to Your Concerns About Your ScareBnB Experience and the Hallowe’en Parade – Effie Seiberg & Alasdair Stuart (Pseudopod 672)
• Black Matter –  Vivian Shaw (Pseudopod 655)