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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalist 2014
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:25:31 -0600
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On 12/16/2024 8:56 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> 2014: American President Obama's sanctions end the Russian threat forever,
> Scottish voters resolve to remain tied to the plunging anchor that is
> England, and Toronto's Mayor Ford makes Toronto, a Canadian community
> home to more than one hundred people, world-famous.
> 
> Most importantly, James Nicoll Reviews launched this year. Can you
> tell I don't generally review anthologies or magazines unprompted?
> 
> Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
> A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
> Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon
> Hild by Nicola Griffith
> The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
> The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
> The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata
> We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
> 
> Just the Leckie, the Samatar, and the Nagata.

Just "Ancillary Justice" and "Fire With Fire".  I found the lack of 
gender to be strange in "Ancillary Justice" but otherwise very good.

Lynn