2022: Plagiarism engines were unleashed, the invincible Russian war
machine turned out to be remarkably vincible, and the Whiskey War
is resolved after nearly half a century.

Which 2022 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Machinehood by S. B. Divya
Plague Birds by Jason Sanford
The Unbroken by C. L. Clark

All but the Sanford.

Which 2022 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn
Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden
The Giants of the Violet Sea by Eugenia Triantafyllou
The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler

All but the Ogden and the Triantafyllou.

Which 2022 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
O2 Arena by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
(emet) by Lauren Ring
Colors of the Immortal Palette by Caroline M. Yoachim
Just Enough Rain by P. H. Lee
That Story Isn't the Story by John Wiswell

None.

Which 2022 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather by Sarah Pinsker
For Lack of a Bed by John Wiswell
Laughter Among the Trees by Suzan Palumbo
Let All the Children Boogie by Sam J. Miller
Mr. Death by Alix E. Harrow
Proof by Induction by José Pablo Iriarte

None.

Which 2022 Norton Finalist Middle Grade/Young Adult Works Have You Read?
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko
Root Magic by Eden Royce
Thornwood by Leah Cypess
Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders

The Little Badger, the Zhao, and the Anders.

Which 2022 Bradbury Nebula Finalist Movies Have You Seen?
WandaVision: Season 1 (IMDB) by Peter Cameron, Mackenzie Dohr,
Laura Donney, Bobak Esfarjani, Megan McDonnell, Jac Schaeffer,
Cameron Squires, Gretchen Enders, and Chuck Hayward
Encanto (IMDB) by Charise Castro Smith, Jared Bush, Byron Howard,
Jason Hand, Nancy Kruse, and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Loki: Season 1 (IMDB) by Bisha K. Ali, Elissa Karasik, Eric Martin,
Michael Waldron, Tom Kauffman, and Jess Dweck
Shang-Chi, the Legend of the Ten Rings (IMDB) by Dave Callaham,
Destin Daniel Cretton, and Andrew Lanham
Space Sweepers by Jo Sung-hee
The Green Knight by David Lowery
What We Do in the Shadows: Season 3 by Jake Bender, Zach Dunn,
Shana Gohd, Sam Johnson, Chris Marcil, William Meny, Sarah Naftalis,
Stefani Robinson, Marika Sawyer, Paul Simms, and Lauren Wells

All of them.

Which 2022 Nebula Finalist Games Have You Read (or Played)
Thirsty Sword Lesbians by April Kit Walsh, Whitney Delagio,
Dominique Dickey, Jonaya Kemper, Alexis Sara, and Rae Nedjadi
Coyote & Crow by Connor Alexander, William McKay, Weyodi Oldbear,
Derek Pounds, Nico Albert, Riana Elliott, Diogo Nogueira, and William
Thompson
Granma's Hand by Balogun Ojetade
Wanderhome by Jay Dragon
Wildermyth by Nate Austin and Anne Austin

Only Thirst Sword Lesbians and Coyote & Crow.
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On 10 Feb 2025 14:36:13 -0000, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
wrote:

2022: Plagiarism engines were unleashed, the invincible Russian war
machine turned out to be remarkably vincible, and the Whiskey War
is resolved after nearly half a century.

I really enjoy reading these summaries!

<snippo written stuff>

Which 2022 Bradbury Nebula Finalist Movies Have You Seen?

WandaVision: Season 1 (IMDB) by Peter Cameron, Mackenzie Dohr,
Laura Donney, Bobak Esfarjani, Megan McDonnell, Jac Schaeffer,
Cameron Squires, Gretchen Enders, and Chuck Hayward

Encanto (IMDB) by Charise Castro Smith, Jared Bush, Byron Howard,
Jason Hand, Nancy Kruse, and Lin-Manuel Miranda

Loki: Season 1 (IMDB) by Bisha K. Ali, Elissa Karasik, Eric Martin,
Michael Waldron, Tom Kauffman, and Jess Dweck

Shang-Chi, the Legend of the Ten Rings (IMDB) by Dave Callaham,
Destin Daniel Cretton, and Andrew Lanham

Space Sweepers by Jo Sung-hee

The Green Knight by David Lowery

What We Do in the Shadows: Season 3 by Jake Bender, Zach Dunn,
Shana Gohd, Sam Johnson, Chris Marcil, William Meny, Sarah Naftalis,
Stefani Robinson, Marika Sawyer, Paul Simms, and Lauren Wells

See what I did there? I made it much much easier to identify the
titles.

Do TV Series officially become Movies by being nominated? Or has
semantic goo erased the distinction?

My records indicate that I saw /Shang-Chi, the Legend of the Ten
Rings/ and /The Green Knight/ in 2022. IMDb shows both released in
2021. But perhaps something was lost in translation ...

I don't actually remember seeing the first (this is /never/ a good
sign). I do remember seeing but not liking the second (this is better
than not remembering it at all, but not much as I do not remember what
I found unlikeable about it).

I not only saw /What We Do in the Shadows/ the movie but bought the
DVD. Unfortunately, what was nominated was Season 3 of a TV Series. I
tried watching such things a while back, but have since returned to my
non-TV series lifestyle.

And, yes, I consider them to be "TV Series" even if they are safely
confined to an Internet streaming platform. Semantic goo strikes
everyone, from time to time.

<snippo games>
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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In article <vod2st$717$1@panix2.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

2022: Plagiarism engines were unleashed, the invincible Russian war
machine turned out to be remarkably vincible, and the Whiskey War
is resolved after nearly half a century.

Which 2022 Nebula Finalist

None

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"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹-----------------------------------------------------
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James Nicoll wrote:

Which 2022 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

I have been enjoying Clark's fantasy/alt-hist/magical steampunk
stories, including this.

Which 2022 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather by Sarah Pinsker

Sort of an epistolary story, but all the form of posts to a forum
discussing a folk song.


Brian

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