Re: Nebula finalists 2011

In article <vi22vk$oac$1@reader2.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

2011! Revolutions across the Middle signal the inevitable rise of democracy,
the American space shuttle makes its final landing, and some really quite
fuck-awful SF won awards in this, the annus horriblis of speculative
fiction.
 
Which 2011 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
 
Blackout / All Clear by Connie Willis
Echo by Jack McDevitt
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
The Native Star by M. K. Hobson
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
 
I have read all of them. The Willis would be the worst piece on this
list if not for another work.
 

None. BTW, what is your opinion of the other 5?

Which 2011 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
 
The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window by Rachel Swirsky
Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance by Paul Park
Iron Shoes by J. Kathleen Cheney
The Alchemist by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
The Sultan of the Clouds by Geoffrey A. Landis
 
Only the Swirsky, the Park, and the Chiang.
 

Only the Landis

 
Which 2011 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
 
That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made by Eric James Stone
Map of Seventeen by Christopher Barzak
Pishaach by Shweta Narayan
Plus or Minus by James Patrick Kelly
Stone Wall Truth by Caroline M. Yoachim
The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard Van Oost and Oludara by Christopher
Kastensmidt
The Jaguar House, in Shadow by Aliette de Bodard
 
Only the Stone and the de Bodard. The Stone is the space whale rape
story and I am inclined to name it the worst on this list... except
Blackout/All Clear is so very long...
 

I must have read the Stone (because it was in Analog), but I don't
remember anything about it.

 
Which 2011 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
How Interesting: A Tiny Man by Harlan Ellison
Ponies by Kij Johnson
Arvies by Adam-Troy Castro
Conditional Love by Felicity Shoulders
Ghosts of New York by Jennifer Pelland
I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno by Vylar Kaftan
The Green Book by Amal El-Mohtar
 
I have read only the Johnson and the El-Mohtar.

None.

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