Nebula Finalists 2017

[James Nicoll]

2017: The UK staggers towards Brexit like a drunk searching in dense
fog for an open pub, the first Murderbot novel is published, and
an extrasolar comet is seen traversing the Solar System.

Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Borderline by Mishell Baker
Everfair by Nisi Shawl
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin

All but the Anders (which I own but bounced off of).

Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
Runtime by S. B. Divya
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
The Liar by John P. Murphy

All but the Murphy.

Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
The Long Fall Up by William Ledbetter
Blood Grains Speak Through Memories by Jason Sanford
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker
The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde
The Orangery by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay by Alyssa Wong

The Pinsker, the Wilde, and the Stufflebeam.

Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong
Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies by Brooke Bolander
Sabbath Wine by Barbara Krasnoff
Things with Beards by Sam J. Miller
This Is Not a Wardrobe Door by A. Merc Rustad
Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay
Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 by Caroline M. Yoachim

Just the Bolander.

[Robert Woodward]

Post by James Nicoll
2017: The UK staggers towards Brexit like a drunk searching in dense
fog for an open pub, the first Murderbot novel is published, and
an extrasolar comet is seen traversing the Solar System.
Which 2017 Nebula Finalist

The best I can tell, NONE of the nominees (the few first published in
F&SF could be an exception).

[Garrett Wollman]

Post by James Nicoll
Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Borderline by Mishell Baker
Everfair by Nisi Shawl
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin

Three of those titles were up for Hugos in 2017, which was the first
year that I actually bought a membership to a Worldcon.[1] I bought
Ninefox Gambit earlier in the year, on somenoday's -- maybe even
James's -- recommendation, and I actually carried it with my to
Helsinki, but never finished it. I still have my voter's packet, and
I notice in retrospect that Jemisin('s publisher) only provided an
excerpt.

Post by James Nicoll
Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
Runtime by S. B. Divya
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
The Liar by John P. Murphy

Four of these were also on the Hugo shortlist. I have been meaning to
read the McGuire for, ummm, seven years now. (The way I've always
done the Hugo reading is to start with the shorter stuff, because the
voter packet comes out so close to the deadline that there's no way I
could read more than one unfamiliar novel in that time. So I tend to
make it all the way through the short stories and then get stuck.)

Post by James Nicoll
Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
The Long Fall Up by William Ledbetter
Blood Grains Speak Through Memories by Jason Sanford
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker
The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde
The Orangery by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay by Alyssa Wong

Less overlap with the Hugo list in this category, only the Wilde and
the Wong. I loved the Wilde, I don't remember the Wong.

Post by James Nicoll
Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong
Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies by Brooke Bolander
Sabbath Wine by Barbara Krasnoff
Things with Beards by Sam J. Miller
This Is Not a Wardrobe Door by A. Merc Rustad
Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay
Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 by Caroline M. Yoachim

El-Mohtar, Bolander, and Wong were all on the Hugo list, and I must
have read them but I don't recall them.

-GAWollman

[Garrett Wollman]

Post by Garrett Wollman
Three of those titles were up for Hugos in 2017, which was the first
year that I actually bought a membership to a Worldcon.[1]

Missing footnote:

[1] This was a not-quite-last-minute decision. 2017 was the centenary
of Finland's independence, and the Finnish state provided support to
bring numerous itinerant international events to the country. I went
to the World Figure Skating Championships in March of that year, and
when I later learned that the Worldcon was in practically the same
place (almost across the street from the train station at the arena) I
felt comfortable enough with the travel arrangements I had made in
March to commit to going back in August. I did not buy the membership
with the intent of voting in the Hugos and was pleasantly surprised to
learn about the voter packet.

-GAWollman

[Scott Dorsey]

Post by Garrett Wollman
[1] This was a not-quite-last-minute decision. 2017 was the centenary
of Finland's independence, and the Finnish state provided support to
bring numerous itinerant international events to the country. I went
to the World Figure Skating Championships in March of that year, and
when I later learned that the Worldcon was in practically the same
place (almost across the street from the train station at the arena) I
felt comfortable enough with the travel arrangements I had made in
March to commit to going back in August. I did not buy the membership
with the intent of voting in the Hugos and was pleasantly surprised to
learn about the voter packet.

I had no idea about it! I did talk to a lot of people, many Chinese but
some not, who had come to Worldcon in part because it was also an
opportunity to check out the Finnish heavy metal music community.
--scott

[James Nicoll]

Post by Garrett Wollman

Post by James Nicoll
Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Borderline by Mishell Baker
Everfair by Nisi Shawl
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin

Three of those titles were up for Hugos in 2017, which was the first
year that I actually bought a membership to a Worldcon.[1] I bought
Ninefox Gambit earlier in the year, on somenoday's -- maybe even
James's -- recommendation, and I actually carried it with my to
Helsinki, but never finished it. I still have my voter's packet, and
I notice in retrospect that Jemisin('s publisher) only provided an
excerpt.

I believe Orbit only ever provides exerpts, which would be mildly
disappointing except they always give me full ARCs.

Post by Garrett Wollman

Post by James Nicoll
Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
Runtime by S. B. Divya
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
The Liar by John P. Murphy

Four of these were also on the Hugo shortlist. I have been meaning to
read the McGuire for, ummm, seven years now. (The way I've always
done the Hugo reading is to start with the shorter stuff, because the
voter packet comes out so close to the deadline that there's no way I
could read more than one unfamiliar novel in that time. So I tend to
make it all the way through the short stories and then get stuck.)

Ah, I never thought of starting with the short stuff.

Is 2017 the year Tor dot com started utterly dominating the novella
awards?

[Titus G]

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Post by Garrett Wollman

Post by James Nicoll
Which 2017 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

snip

Post by Garrett Wollman
I have been meaning to
read the McGuire for, ummm, seven years now.

I wouldn't bother. It was rather empty of ideas and emotion despite
being about loss and yearning in damaged children. 2 stars.