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2011 Nebula Award Winners
The 2011 Nebula Award winners were annnounced last week. The list:
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05-29-2012, 02:18 PM | #2 |
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Among Others was pretty darn OK.
I'm obviously not a Kij Johnson fan, since yet again... a Kij Johnson story did absolutely nothing for me. I thought "The Paper Menagerie" was well written (even if it was a bit overly maudlin for me personally). The short-fiction that's getting nominated (and winning) for the Nebula/Hugo awards is getting a little too touchy-feely for my tastes. Not that there's anything wrong with that, generally speaking... it's just that my heart doesn't really have a lot of strings to tug on. And the ones I do have, usually require the weight of a few more words to get them to budge. I'm more prone to enjoy a short-story that targets the intellect and/or the funny-bone. |
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Just so you know... my "pretty darn OK" was a bit tongue in cheek. I felt it was quite solidly an OK book; but not anything truly exceptional or award-worthy. Sorry for any confusion.
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I've read the Kij Johnson novella as part of the Hugo package. Of the 6 stories in the category it's in 5th or 6th place, with Carolyn Gilman's The Ice Owl alternating.
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I'm working my way (slowly) through the Hugo short fiction list. I've only gotten through the novellas so far, but i really enjoyed Catherynne Valente's Silently and Very Fast. None of the rest grabbed me.
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It's also available for a free read online in three parts on Clarksworld starting here. Links to next part at bottom of story.
Edit: And doing some more digging in Clarksworld, I find that the story is also available as a three part audio book starting here. I'm going to have to download this one myself Last edited by jgaiser; 05-29-2012 at 07:54 PM. Reason: added more information |
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I found quite a few of the Hugo short-fiction nominees free online. Which means they were a couple of clicks away from my Kindle.
Novellas Kiss Me Twice by Mary Robinette Kowal The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu Novelettes The Copenhagen Interpretation by Paul Cornell Fields of Gold by Rachel Swirsky Six Months, Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders Short Stories The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu The Homecoming, Mike Resnick Movement, Nancy Fulda The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu. The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City (Prologue), John Scalzi Those are links to the authors'/publishers' websites where the stories themselves can be legally read, or links to the (legally) downloadable ebooks can be found. Last edited by DiapDealer; 05-29-2012 at 08:11 PM. |
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Links to all the Nebula nominated stories which are legally available online can be found here:
Free Speculative Fiction Online Just scroll down the front page to the Nebula ballot. I love this site, it has tons of links to online stories, all of them legal. Among Others was one of my favorite books last year, so I am quite pleased that it won. It also made me want to read some of the classic science fiction titles that were mentioned in the book. I also liked the Paper Menagerie a lot, though I thought two of the other nominated short stories were more interesting: Her Husband's Hands by Adam-Troy Castro and Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son by Tom Crosshill. I am still reading The Man Who Bridged the Mist. It's okay, though not really my cup of tea. Maybe I am not a Kij Johnson type, either. I haven't read the other novellas yet. I am also still reading The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman. This is a young adult book, but quite well written about a 13 year old girl who is transported 100 years into the past and has to work as a slave in her own family's household. |
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Her Husband's Hands was just too weird for me.
But I'm glad to see Adam-Troy getting some recognition as I've been familiar with him since dirt was new. |
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Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente in Clarksworld issues 61-63 The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu at Clarksworld and at EscapePod, #343 The Homecoming, Mike Resnick at EscapePod, #344 Movement, Nancy Fulda at EscapePod, #314 The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu. at EscapePod, #345 |
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