Fairly well written, but not my cup of tea. Violent and sad. "Work for Hire" based on the game Warmachine.

More thoughts here, specifically relating to its nomination for the Hugo Award:
http://ciaracatscifi.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-butcher-of-khardov-by-dan-wells.ht... ( )

I am so not the audience for this kind of story. It's about some sort of giant, warlike man, who maybe, kind-of has some sort of personal honor, except that he occasionally has these fits where he murders absolutely everyone around him. There's manpain about his dead wife and how he thinks he failed her. There's also some bit in there about a young queen who wants him to kill for her. It's part of a larger universe and I'm sure had I read any of those stories this would have made more sense to me because it really seems like the origin story of the queen's killer.
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http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2300865.html

This seemed to me a pretty standard augmented humanity superhero-type story, without any particular features that grabbed me one way or the other. The Russian setting was an original touch. ( )