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From: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2021
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 18:14:11 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vnqk3c$7ov$2@reader2.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

>Which 2021 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>Network Effect by Martha Wells
>Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
>Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
>Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
>The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
>The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk
>
>I have read all of these. 

I own the Jemisin but haven't yet read it.  (I did read "The City Born
Great" from which it developed.)

>Which 2021 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
>Ring Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times 
>by P. Djeli Clark
>Finna by Nino Cipri
>Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon by Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
>Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
>The Four Profound Weaves by R. B. Lemberg
>Tower of Mud and Straw by Yaroslav Barsukov
>
>The Clark, the Cipri, the Onyebuchi, and the Lemberg. 

I think I tried reading the Cipri, which was also nominated for the
Hugo.

>Which 2021 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
>Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker
>Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells As a Super by A. T. Greenblatt
>Shadow Prisons of the Mind by Caroline M. Yoachim
>Stepsister by Leah Cypess
>The Pill by Meg Elison
>The Shadow Prison Experiment by Caroline M. Yoachim
>The Shadow Prisoner's Dilemma by Caroline M. Yoachim
>Where You Linger by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
>
>None.

I also have none, although I'm pretty sure I started one or two of the
Hugo-nominated ones and didn't finish any.  Only three of these were
on the Hugo shortlist.

>Which 2021 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
>Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell
>A Guide for Working Breeds by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
>Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math by Aimee Picchi
>Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse by Rae Carson
>My Country Is a Ghost by Eugenia Triantafyllou
>The Eight-Thousanders by Jason Sanford
>
>None.

Definitely read the Wiswell and the Carson, but have no particular
memory of them.  Tried the Prasad and bounced hard.  Those are the
only ones in the intersection with the Hugo shortlist.

Someone has probably already done the research about how the Hugo and
Nebula shortlists correlate over time.  Interesting that 2021 had
about 50% overlap.

-GAWollman

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