Re: Nebula Finalists 2017

In article <vlhcjm$mta$1@usenet.csail.mit.edu>,
Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> wrote:

In article <vlgpso$3i6$1@panix2.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
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Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Borderline by Mishell Baker
Everfair by Nisi Shawl
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin

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Three of those titles were up for Hugos in 2017, which was the first
year that I actually bought a membership to a Worldcon.[1]  I bought
Ninefox Gambit earlier in the year, on somenoday's -- maybe even
James's -- recommendation, and I actually carried it with my to
Helsinki, but never finished it.  I still have my voter's packet, and
I notice in retrospect that Jemisin('s publisher) only provided an
excerpt.

I believe Orbit only ever provides exerpts, which would be mildly
disappointing except they always give me full ARCs.

Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
Runtime by S. B. Divya
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
The Liar by John P. Murphy

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Four of these were also on the Hugo shortlist.  I have been meaning to
read the McGuire for, ummm, seven years now.  (The way I've always
done the Hugo reading is to start with the shorter stuff, because the
voter packet comes out so close to the deadline that there's no way I
could read more than one unfamiliar novel in that time.  So I tend to
make it all the way through the short stories and then get stuck.)

Ah, I never thought of starting with the short stuff.

Is 2017 the year Tor dot com started utterly dominating the novella
awards?
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