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    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 27 14:40:22 2025
    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.


    Which 2020 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
    This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
    Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang
    Catfish Lullaby by A. C. Wise
    Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water by Vylar Kaftan
    The Deep by Rivers Solomon
    The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark

    The El-Mohtar & Gladstone, the Chiang, the Solomon, and the Clark.


    Which 2020 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
    Carpe Glitter by Cat Rambo
    A Strange Uncertain Light by G. V. Anderson
    For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll
    His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light by Mimi Mondal
    The Archronology of Love by Caroline M. Yoachim
    The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye by Sarah Pinsker

    None.


    Which 2020 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
    Give the Family My Love by A. T. Greenblatt
    A Catalog of Storms by Fran Wilde
    And Now His Lordship Is Laughing by Shiv Ramdas
    How the Trick Is Done by A. C. Wise
    Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women
    of Ratnabar Island by Nibedita Sen
    The Dead, in Their Uncontrollable Power by Karen Osborne

    None.

    Which 2020 Nebula Finalist Game Have You Played?
    Outer Wilds by Kelsey Beachum
    Disco Elysium by Robert Kurvitz
    Fate Accessibility Toolkit by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
    The Magician's Workshop by Kate Heartfield
    The Outer Worlds by Leonard Boyarsky, Megan Starks, Kate Dollarhyde, and Chris L'Etoile

    None.
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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Mon Jan 27 21:39:55 2025
    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


    Which 2020 Nebula Finalist

    None of the shorter works.

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    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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  • From Titus G@21:1/5 to Robert Woodward on Wed Jan 29 17:41:52 2025
    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.

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