Heart-warming, heart-breaking, and heart-stopping. They vary so widely that they could also serve as a quick survey of the breadth of current science fiction and fantasy in style as well as subject. Every nominee in this category could reasonably win the Nebula. I’m a member of SFWA, and I’ve read all the works in the novelette category, which is 7,500 to 17,500 words. Winners are determined by the vote of SFWA members. The finalists for the best works in 2022 in seven categories have been announced, and the awards will be presented in a ceremony on Sunday, May 14, streaming live from Anaheim, CA, as part of the 2023 Nebula Conference Online. SFF Addicts and I talk and laugh a lotįor the past 58 years, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has presented the Nebula Awards. We all love reading, and that’s what matters. But you may reach a very different conclusion, and in keeping with Monk and Robot’s theme of acceptance, that would be just fine. I was torn between voting for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Even Though I Knew the End, and the originality of Becky Chambers’ story won me over.
You’ll see the love: a lot of love in all directions. My vote: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) – Monk and Robot - that is, Dex and Mosscap - travel together and slowly tackle more and more complex (or simple, depending on your viewpoint) philosophical questions. Can she protect her beloved? Demons, warlocks, and angels keep the plot twisting and turning. Polk (Tordotcom) – In Chicago in the 1930s, the “White City Vampire” seems to be an ordinary serial killer, but a private detective knows that a lot more is at stake - more than she thinks, in fact. Expect shenanigans, not a treatise on governance.Įven Though I Knew the End by C.L. Genuinely funny, light-hearted, and light-weight, in a good way.
High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson (Tordotcom) – A scribe gets sent to record tense and desperate debates that, if not resolved, will result in disaster. While they can’t avoid tragedy, Hades, the king of the dead, has godlike wisdom and compassion, which might rescue the afterlife. Emo music students at a college reiterate the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. I Never Liked You Anyway by Jordan Kurella (Vernacular) – Love at its most foolish. Innocence could be a successful gambit, along with forgiveness. Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22) – The crew of a space ship, a romantic triad, gets dragged into a planet’s deadly political games.
None of them are romances per se, but love has a place in the plots. I’m a member of SFWA, and I’ve read all the works in the novella category, 17,500 to 40,000 words.
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