Re: Nebula finalists 2010

On 19/11/24 03:42, James Nicoll wrote:

Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
 
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman
The City & The City by China Mieville
The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
 
I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
 

Both the Bacigalupi and the Mieville novels were a solid four stars for me.
Bacigalupi's "Ship Breaker" was less than mediocre and I just discovered
that I have "The Water Knife" so began reading it today. So far it is a
dark but a brilliant corrupt dystopia of a future of dust storms and
water shortage where Nevada controls the water from the Colorado and
Arizona is turning into a deserted desert like Texas already is. The
high-impact chapters from a variety of perspectives are short making it
difficult to put down. His "Pump Six and Other Stories was a mixed bag
but four stars for "The People of Sand and Slag".
Mieville's imagination and writing skills are just brilliant. "The City
& The City" is a great example of how he can make a ridiculous idea seem
plausible and seriously entertaining.