North Continent Ribbon

North Continent Ribbon, Ursula Whitcher, 2024 novella/collection. I made the classic blunder of being so excited about this book that I wanted to actually own it as a book, which ironically made me less likely to actually read it, since it's much more of a hassle for me to read on paper. However I have finally done so and am pleased to report that it is awesome. I had read most of the stories before - possibly I had read at least pieces of all of them before - but I don't have a very good memory any more, and can't put together pieces of things I'm reading spread out over time, and so it was very different reading all six at once put together in an order with years added to form a whole chronology. Like, there is a lot going on here both in terms of world-building and in terms of a big-picture world narrative that I had not picked up on at all. Really well-built and nicely done. I'm not sure for awards purposes how fixups count exactly (fixup sounds pejorative but I don't know a better term for when parts of something have had prior publication) but I feel like it *should* count as a 2024 novella because the whole is greater than the sum of its parts?