The 2012 Hugo Awards nominations are out, and amongst the typical gritty fantasy and zombie apocalypse novels are Jo Walton's Among Others, which sounds genuinely intriguing.

Random news on books from around the Internet: The New York Times reviews State of Wonder and Popular Crime while Io9 looks at what books are creepier (in a bad way) than the final book in the Twighlight series. One involves dragon oral sex. Really.