This week’s new releases are heavy on cool new science fiction, including a new novel from Ian McDonald (always an event), an exciting fantasy debut, and a slim yet anything but slight novella from one of the genre’s most fascinating writers.
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SFF literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula is voted on by the professional peers of the award nominees—members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. There are seven nominees in the best novel category this year; every two weeks between now and […]
For the last couple months, I’ve had the enjoyable task of reading my way through the seven nominees for the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novel, which will be handed out this weekend at 2016 SFWA Nebula Conference in Chicago. Regardless of which one takes home the prize, all seven are worthy contenders, spanning a variety […]
So maybe we aren’t the best awards prognosticators, but you’ll forgive us for making the wrong call on the winner of the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novel: after three previous nominations, we were sure N.K. Jemisin would finally take home the trophy for the dazzlingly accomplished, apocalyptic epic fantasy The Fifth Season. Instead, the […]
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SF/F literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula is voted on by the members of an industry trade organization who are the professional peers of the award nominees—the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. There are seven nominees in the best novel category this year, […]