Hugo Novels Poll: Results

The resulting five top nominees, from my extremely unofficial poll of various people I happen to know, and a few of them asking other people, listed alphabetically:

* Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie
* City of Stairs, by Robert Jackson Bennett
* The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison
* The Peripheral, by William Gibson
* Steles of the Sky, by Elizabeth Bear

( Commentary and numbers beneath the cut )

General discussion of the individual books and/or the results are more than welcome below. It's certainly given me an interesting reading list to work with.