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From: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 2017
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 19:57:42 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vlgpso$3i6$1@panix2.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

>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

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.

>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

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.)

>Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
>The Long Fall Up by William Ledbetter
>Blood Grains Speak Through Memories by Jason Sanford
>Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker
>The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde
>The Orangery by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
>You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay by Alyssa Wong

Less overlap with the Hugo list in this category, only the Wilde and
the Wong.  I loved the Wilde, I don't remember the Wong.

>Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
>Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
>A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong
>Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies by Brooke Bolander
>Sabbath Wine by Barbara Krasnoff
>Things with Beards by Sam J. Miller
>This Is Not a Wardrobe Door by A. Merc Rustad
>Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay 
>Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 by Caroline M. Yoachim

El-Mohtar, Bolander, and Wong were all on the Hugo list, and I must
have read them but I don't recall them.

-GAWollman

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