Nebula nominees!
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Novel
Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss
Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty
Jade City, Fonda Lee
Autonomous, Annalee Newitz
Stone Sky and Autonomous are on my Hugo nominees list, Six Wakes I enjoyed, Amberlough is on my to-read list but at a low priority. I suppose if one of the other ones wins I'll put it on the to-read list too.
Novella
River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
“And Then There Were (N-One)”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
Barry’s Deal, Lawrence M. Schoen (NobleFusion Press)
All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
Ooh, excited to see Pinsker, Wells, and Yang here, they're on my Hugo noms and this is a good sign. Passing Strange is on my to-read list. I keep thinking about River of Teeth but while I like hippos I'm not so much on Westerns. I've never heard of Barry's Deal, which is interesting - a Nebula novella managed to completely slip through my novella net - but reading about it, I think I've maybe read something from earlier in the series and wasn't that into it.
Novelette
“Dirty Old Town”, Richard Bowes (F&SF 5-6/17)
“Weaponized Math”, Jonathan P. Brazee (The Expanding Universe, Vol. 3)
“Wind Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
“A Series of Steaks”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld 1/17)
“A Human Stain”, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 1/4/17)
“Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time”, K.M. Szpara (Uncanny 5-6/17)
Three from things I don't read, two of my Hugo nominees (Prasad and Szpara), and "Human Stain", which didn't interest me enough to read (looks like gothic horror). I'm so excited to see Szpara's story on here after it got left off the Locus list!
Short Story
“Fandom for Robots”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)
“Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM”, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
“Utopia, LOL?”, Jamie Wahls (Strange Horizons 6/5/17)
“Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 9-10/17)
“The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)”, Matthew Kressel (Tor.com 3/15/17)
“Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)
Two of my Hugo nominees (Prasad and Roanhorse) and one of my runners-up (Yoachim). I wasn't into the Wilde story, and didn't rec the Wahls story either, although I thought about it, and it's a fine story, I could have. (Here it is.) "The Last Novelist" I noped out of at the summary ("a dying writer trying to finish one last novel")... I just reopened the page and reflexively rolled my eyes again, so I don't think I'm going to be able to approach it without prejudice.
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Get Out (Written by Jordan Peele)
The Good Place: “Michael’s Gambit” (Written by Michael Schur)
Logan (Screenplay by Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green)
The Shape of Water (Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Written by Rian Johnson)
Wonder Woman (Screenplay by Allan Heinberg)
Have I posted about my Hugo Dramatic nominees? Wonder Woman, Last Jedi, and Shape of Water are all on my list, Logan was a runner up, Get Out I haven't seen but was a thing that I thought might well show up on the ballot.
The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
Exo, Fonda Lee (Scholastic Press)
Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren (Tor)
The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
Want, Cindy Pon (Simon Pulse)
WHY ARE THERE ONLY FOUR OF THEM AND WHY ISN'T IN OTHER LANDS ONE OF THEM. OR THICK AS THIEVES. BAH.
Seriously disappointed not to see In Other Lands on here, and also I haven't read any of these but Pon and Miller are on my to-read list and Lee and Maaren are *going* on my to-read list, so I guess it's not a bad list in that respect. (But why only four? SFWA really didn't think any other books were worthy of being finalists?)
Novel
Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss
Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty
Jade City, Fonda Lee
Autonomous, Annalee Newitz
Stone Sky and Autonomous are on my Hugo nominees list, Six Wakes I enjoyed, Amberlough is on my to-read list but at a low priority. I suppose if one of the other ones wins I'll put it on the to-read list too.
Novella
River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
“And Then There Were (N-One)”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
Barry’s Deal, Lawrence M. Schoen (NobleFusion Press)
All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
Ooh, excited to see Pinsker, Wells, and Yang here, they're on my Hugo noms and this is a good sign. Passing Strange is on my to-read list. I keep thinking about River of Teeth but while I like hippos I'm not so much on Westerns. I've never heard of Barry's Deal, which is interesting - a Nebula novella managed to completely slip through my novella net - but reading about it, I think I've maybe read something from earlier in the series and wasn't that into it.
Novelette
“Dirty Old Town”, Richard Bowes (F&SF 5-6/17)
“Weaponized Math”, Jonathan P. Brazee (The Expanding Universe, Vol. 3)
“Wind Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
“A Series of Steaks”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld 1/17)
“A Human Stain”, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 1/4/17)
“Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time”, K.M. Szpara (Uncanny 5-6/17)
Three from things I don't read, two of my Hugo nominees (Prasad and Szpara), and "Human Stain", which didn't interest me enough to read (looks like gothic horror). I'm so excited to see Szpara's story on here after it got left off the Locus list!
Short Story
“Fandom for Robots”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)
“Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM”, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
“Utopia, LOL?”, Jamie Wahls (Strange Horizons 6/5/17)
“Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 9-10/17)
“The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)”, Matthew Kressel (Tor.com 3/15/17)
“Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)
Two of my Hugo nominees (Prasad and Roanhorse) and one of my runners-up (Yoachim). I wasn't into the Wilde story, and didn't rec the Wahls story either, although I thought about it, and it's a fine story, I could have. (Here it is.) "The Last Novelist" I noped out of at the summary ("a dying writer trying to finish one last novel")... I just reopened the page and reflexively rolled my eyes again, so I don't think I'm going to be able to approach it without prejudice.
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Get Out (Written by Jordan Peele)
The Good Place: “Michael’s Gambit” (Written by Michael Schur)
Logan (Screenplay by Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green)
The Shape of Water (Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Written by Rian Johnson)
Wonder Woman (Screenplay by Allan Heinberg)
Have I posted about my Hugo Dramatic nominees? Wonder Woman, Last Jedi, and Shape of Water are all on my list, Logan was a runner up, Get Out I haven't seen but was a thing that I thought might well show up on the ballot.
The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
Exo, Fonda Lee (Scholastic Press)
Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren (Tor)
The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
Want, Cindy Pon (Simon Pulse)
WHY ARE THERE ONLY FOUR OF THEM AND WHY ISN'T IN OTHER LANDS ONE OF THEM. OR THICK AS THIEVES. BAH.
Seriously disappointed not to see In Other Lands on here, and also I haven't read any of these but Pon and Miller are on my to-read list and Lee and Maaren are *going* on my to-read list, so I guess it's not a bad list in that respect. (But why only four? SFWA really didn't think any other books were worthy of being finalists?)
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Date: 2018-02-22 10:11 pm (UTC)Kind of the opposite, if I've osmosed the rules correctly: the fact that there are only four finalists means that there was a four-way tie for the fifth slot. While the Nebulas will add one extra finalist in a category in the case of a tie, I believe that seven finalists per category is their upper limit.
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Date: 2018-02-23 04:50 pm (UTC)