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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2013
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 08:21:16 -0800
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On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:39:37 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

>2013: Poor practices on the part of train company MMA led to the =
obliteration=20
>of Lac-Magantic as well as 47 deaths (something for which the legal=20
>consequences were "surprisingly" minor), the US Supreme Court made a=20
>decision that wasn't egregiously stupid and socially regressive=20
>(presumably by mistake), and emergency alert systems in five states=20
>are hacked to warn people of a zombie outbreak (braaaaaaains).=20
>
>
>Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
>Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal
>Ironskin by Tina Connolly
>The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan
>The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin
>Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
>
>All but the Kiernan, whose horror novels I'd found too silly for words,
>as the two I read involved evil but immobile entities that could be=20
>eluded simply by not walking up to them to poke them with a stick.=20

But that worked so well in some of the Harryhausen Sinbad movies.

>Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
>After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
>All the Flavors by Ken Liu
>Barry's Tale by Lawrence M. Schoen
>Katabasis by Robert Reed
>On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard
>The Stars Do Not Lie by Jay Lake
>
>The Kress, the Reed, the de Bodard, and the Lake.=20
>
>
>Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
>Close Encounters by Andy Duncan
>Fade to White by Catherynne M. Valente
>Portrait of Lisane de Patagnia by Rachel Swirsky
>Swift, Brutal Retaliation by Meghan McCarron
>The Finite Canvas by Brit Mandelo
>The Pyre of New Day by Catherine Asaro
>The Waves by Ken Liu
>
>The Duncan, the Valente, and the Mandelo.=20
>
>
>Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
>Immersion by Aliette de Bodard
>Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain by Cat Rambo
>Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes by Tom Crosshill
>Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream by Maria Dahvana Headley
>Nanny's Day by Leah Cypess
>Robot by Helena Bell
>The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species by Ken Liu
>
>Only the de Bodard.=20
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"