Nebula finalist 2014

[James Nicoll]

2014: American President Obama's sanctions end the Russian threat forever,
Scottish voters resolve to remain tied to the plunging anchor that is
England, and Toronto's Mayor Ford makes Toronto, a Canadian community
home to more than one hundred people, world-famous.

Most importantly, James Nicoll Reviews launched this year. Can you
tell I don't generally review anthologies or magazines unprompted?

Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon
Hild by Nicola Griffith
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Just the Leckie, the Samatar, and the Nagata.

Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
The Weight of the Sunrise by Vylar Kaftan
Annabel Lee by Nancy Kress
Burning Girls by Veronica Schanoes
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
Trial of the Century by Lawrence M. Schoen
Wakulla Springs by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages

Just the Shanoes and the Valente.

Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
The Waiting Stars by Aliette de Bodard
In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind by Sarah Pinsker
Paranormal Romance by Christopher Barzak
Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters by Henry Lien
The Litigation Master and the Monkey King by Ken Liu
They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass by Alaya Dawn Johnson

Just the de Bodard.

Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky
Alive, Alive Oh by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer by Kenneth Schneyer
Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar
The Sounds of Old Earth by Matthew Kressel

Just the Swirsky and the Schneyer. The Swirsky is interesting as many
Puppies firmly believe it won its category in the Hugo. John Chu's
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere won the short story Hugo
that year. Of course, mere factuality was never a prominent element
in the Puppy blatherings.

[Robert Woodward]

Post by James Nicoll
2014: American President Obama's sanctions end the Russian threat forever,
Scottish voters resolve to remain tied to the plunging anchor that is
England, and Toronto's Mayor Ford makes Toronto, a Canadian community
home to more than one hundred people, world-famous.
Most importantly, James Nicoll Reviews launched this year. Can you
tell I don't generally review anthologies or magazines unprompted?
Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon
Hild by Nicola Griffith
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Just the Leckie, the Samatar, and the Nagata.

None (what is a Baen title, not written by Lois McMaster Bujold, doing
in this list?)

Post by James Nicoll
Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
The Weight of the Sunrise by Vylar Kaftan
Annabel Lee by Nancy Kress
Burning Girls by Veronica Schanoes
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
Trial of the Century by Lawrence M. Schoen
Wakulla Springs by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages
Just the Shanoes and the Valente.

None

Post by James Nicoll
Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
The Waiting Stars by Aliette de Bodard
In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind by Sarah Pinsker
Paranormal Romance by Christopher Barzak
Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters by Henry Lien
The Litigation Master and the Monkey King by Ken Liu
They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Just the de Bodard.

I might have read the Lien.

Post by James Nicoll
Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky
Alive, Alive Oh by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg
Latimer by Kenneth Schneyer
Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar
The Sounds of Old Earth by Matthew Kressel

None

[James Nicoll]

Post by Robert Woodward

Post by James Nicoll
2014: American President Obama's sanctions end the Russian threat forever,
Scottish voters resolve to remain tied to the plunging anchor that is
England, and Toronto's Mayor Ford makes Toronto, a Canadian community
home to more than one hundred people, world-famous.
Most importantly, James Nicoll Reviews launched this year. Can you
tell I don't generally review anthologies or magazines unprompted?
Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon
Hild by Nicola Griffith
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Just the Leckie, the Samatar, and the Nagata.

None (what is a Baen title, not written by Lois McMaster Bujold, doing
in this list?)

It is my impression Gannon is a personable fellow, which might be
enough to get his fellow writers look past the terrible covers
his books were no doubt saddled with.

[Titus G]

Post by James Nicoll
2014: American President Obama's sanctions end the Russian threat forever,
Scottish voters resolve to remain tied to the plunging anchor that is
England, and Toronto's Mayor Ford makes Toronto, a Canadian community
home to more than one hundred people, world-famous.
Most importantly, James Nicoll Reviews launched this year. Can you
tell I don't generally review anthologies or magazines unprompted?
Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon
Hild by Nicola Griffith
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Just the Leckie, the Samatar, and the Nagata.

It seems pointless to reply to just list what you have read without
comment. So.
March 2014
Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie 5 stars
Where ancillaries are androids forming group minds. One mind survives
when a ship mind is destroyed by a division of the group mind ruler and
seeks answers and justice. There is adventure, violence, subterfuge and
page-turning intrigues. The rest of the trilogy is as good apart from
the final conclusion; only a minor annoyance.
April 2015
The Red: First Light Linda Nagata 2 stars.
Mediocre with some interesting technology but struggled to read and
stopped at about 80%.
May 2014
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2 stars
A child's fairy tale.

[Lynn McGuire]

Post by James Nicoll
2014: American President Obama's sanctions end the Russian threat forever,
Scottish voters resolve to remain tied to the plunging anchor that is
England, and Toronto's Mayor Ford makes Toronto, a Canadian community
home to more than one hundred people, world-famous.
Most importantly, James Nicoll Reviews launched this year. Can you
tell I don't generally review anthologies or magazines unprompted?
Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon
Hild by Nicola Griffith
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Just the Leckie, the Samatar, and the Nagata.

Just "Ancillary Justice" and "Fire With Fire". I found the lack of
gender to be strange in "Ancillary Justice" but otherwise very good.

Lynn