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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2020
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:41:52 +1300
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On 28/01/25 18:39, Robert Woodward wrote:
> In article <vn85sl$kld$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>  jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
> 
>> 2020: Covid 19 kills millions, Trump ushers in the largest stock 
>> market crash since the Depression, and the US has a brief but 
>> temporary remission from its terminal illness. 
>>
>> Which 2020 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>> A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
>> A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
>> Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
>> Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
>> Marque of Caine by Charles E. Gannon
>> The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
>>
>> The Martine, the Muir, the Moreno-Garcia, and the Harrow. 
>>
> The Martine
> 

A Memory Called Empire. Arkady Martine. Four stars.
Brilliant intrigue with a perfect fish out of water. I liked the AI run
City, the concept of succession memories, the social hierarchies and
Imago machines.

Gideon the Ninth. Tamsym Muir. Zero stars, not finished.
Another smart ass 18yr old girl with superhuman strength rebels.
Skeletons and dead people behaving as if they are alive.

The Ten Thousand Doors of January. Alix E. Harrow. Solid three stars.
I enjoyed this despite it being in the YA category.