I recently received my ballot information for this year’s Nebula Awards and thought that I might be able to spend some time reading the nominated works. However, when I looked at the deadline and how much I would need to read, I don’t think I’ll be able to get through enough of them to make any fair decisions.
Prior to the announcement, I had only read one of the novels and none of the works in the other categories. . I reviewed The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz recently and you can find my thoughts here (paid link). That leaves me with five novels and all the novellas, novelettes, and short stories to read (and that is without counting the award for Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction or the game writing category).
I think that my strategy will be to start with the short stories. Then I can move on to the longer categories. I don’t expect that I will get to the novels, but the process at least makes me more aware of some books that I hadn’t heard of prior to this.
You can find all of the nominations here. Voting closes on April 15th and the winners will be announced on June 8th at the 2024 Nebula Conference in Pasadena, CA.
Salvage – a flash fiction science fiction story with a winter holiday theme