Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy discussion
SF&F Awards
>
2019 Nebula Award Finalists Announced
date
newest »
newest »
Hmmm. Other than the novel I'm currently reading (A Memory Called Empire) and a couple of the short stories/novelettes, I don't seem to have read any of this.
It’s only a few days to go. There was no five star short story this year, but my favorite is Greenblatt’s story “Give the Family My Love” – I liked the SF library idea and the protagonist’s voice.
Reviews are on my blog: https://reiszwolf.wordpress.com/2020/...
Today, the Nebula Award Ceremony will be streaming at 5 PM PDT on May 30th (which is 2am MEZ 31.5.2020).Though coming in late starting May 1st, I've made my way through the categories Short Story, Novelette, and Novella (last year's been a reading slump for me due to working far to much, and I didn't read any of those novels). Here are my favorites (detailed reviews for all finalists are in the last post's link):
Short story: Give the Family My Love • 2019 • SF short story by A.T. Greenblatt • review
Novelette: For He Can Creep • 2019 • Fairy tale novelette by Siobhan Carroll • also Hugo finalist • review
Novella: Yes, there are two, and my bets are on Ted Chiang.
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 • 2019 • Urban Fantasy novella by P. Djèlí Clark • also Hugo finalist • review
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom • 2019 • Near Future SF novella by Ted Chiang • also Hugo finalist • review
The novella category was especially satisfying with great stories. The other categories not so much - I liked half of the finalists but none came out as a five star work.
Disclaimer: I hate horror fiction and try to avoid it. When I quick scan a story and find out that it is in that genre, I skip it all the time.
The Winners have been announced:Best Short Story: ★★★★☆ • Give the Family My Love • 2019 • SF short story by A.T. Greenblatt • review
Best Novelette: ☆☆☆☆☆ (Horror, didn't read) • Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo (Meerkat Shorts)
Best Novella: ☆☆☆☆☆ (DNF at around 50%) • This Is How You Lose the Time War • 2019 • Time travel novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone • also Hugo finalist • review
Best Novel: A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
Congratulations to the winners.
The short story winner from Greenblatt was my favorite. The other categories not so much: Novelette is a horror story, which I try to avoid. The novella from El-Mohtar and Gladstone didn't work out for me, though I can understand why others falled for the literary experiment. I didn't read any of the novels, and Pinsker's didn't grab my attention at all. I guess, I have to accept that I have a different taste in many cases.
Andreas wrote: "Best Novel: A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley) ..."
I don't even try to read Pinsker's gibberish anymore.
I don't even try to read Pinsker's gibberish anymore.
I'd love to see the US and global sales figures for these nominees and for the leading, say, twenty sci-fi books (ebooks and/or paper).
Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy
Books mentioned in this topic
A Memory Called Empire (other topics)Catfishing on CatNet (other topics)
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (other topics)
Dragon Pearl (other topics)
Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions (other topics)
More...
The finalists for the 2019 Nebula Awards have been announced. The Nebula Awards are presented annually by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
Finalists for Best Novel
Finalists for Best Novella
“Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” by Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
"The Haunting of Tram Car 01"5 by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
"This Is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
"Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water" by Vylar Kaftan (Tor.com Publishing)
"The Deep" by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
"Catfish Lullaby" by A.C. Wise (Broken Eye)
Finalists for Best Novelette
“A Strange Uncertain Light”, G.V. Anderson (F&SF 7-8/19)
“For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
“His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”, Mimi Mondal (Tor.com 1/23/19)
“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)
Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo (Meerkat)
“The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)
Finalists for Best Short Story
“Give the Family My Love”, A.T. Greenblatt (Clarkesworld 2/19)
“The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power”, Karen Osborne (Uncanny 3-4/19)
“And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9/9/29)
“Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 5/19)
“A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)
“How the Trick Is Done”, A.C. Wise (Uncanny 7-8/19)
Finalists for Best Young Adult SF/F Novel (Andre Norton Award)
Finalists for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation (Bradbury Award)
Avengers: Endgame, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Marvel Studios)
Captain Marvel, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Marvel Studios)
Good Omens: “Hard Times”, Neil Gaiman (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios)
The Mandalorian: “The Child”, Jon Favreau (Disney+)
Russian Doll: “The Way Out”, Allison Silverman and Leslye Headland (Netflix)
Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar”, Jeff Jensen & Damon Lindelof (HBO)
You can read the full list of other categories at the SFWA Announcement. The Winners will be announced at the Nebula Award Weekend May 28-31.