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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 2017
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 20:23:19 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
>
>>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.

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
>
>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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