To help propel you into your awards season reading, here are links to excerpts or complete works from the 2019 Nebula Award finalists.
Novel
- Marque of Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen) (Chapters 1-15)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK) (First 50 pages – Audio Excerpt)
- A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor) (Prologue – Chapter 1 – Audio Excerpt)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher) (Chapter 1 – Chapter 8 – Audio Excerpt)
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing) (Chapters 1-8 – Audio Excerpt)
- A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley) (Chapter 1 – Audio Excerpt)
Novella
- Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom, Ted Chiang (Exhalation) (No excerpt located)
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Vylar Kaftan (Tor.com Publishing) (Excerpt)
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt 1 – Audio Excerpt 2)
- Catfish Lullaby, A.C. Wise (Broken Eye) (Excerpt)
Novelette
- “A Strange Uncertain Light”, G.V. Anderson (F&SF 7-8/19) (Purchase only)
- “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
- “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”, Mimi Mondal (Tor.com 1/23/19)
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)
- Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo (Meerkat) (Excerpt – Author reads excerpt on YouTube)
- “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)
Short Story
- “Give the Family My Love”, A.T. Greenblatt (Clarkesworld 2/19)
- “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” by Karen Osborne (Uncanny 3-4/19)
- “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9/9/19)
- “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 5/19)
- “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)
- “How the Trick Is Done” by A.C. Wise (Uncanny 7-8/19)
Andre Norton Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen) (Chapters 1-2 – Audio Excerpt)
- Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, Henry Lien (Holt) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Cog, Greg van Eekhout (Harper) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Riverland, Fran Wilde (Amulet) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
There is also an excerpt of “Carpe Glitter” at the Speculative Fiction Fiction Showcase.
Thanks, Cora. I’ve added that link, as well as links to excerpts and audio excerpts for the Novel and Andre Norton nominees.
The issue of F&SF with novelette “A Strange Uncertain Light” by G.V. Anderson is available to Kindle Unlimited subscribers (at least in the US.)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has archives in various publication databases, such as ProQuest, Gale Onefile, and EBSCOhost, which you may be able to access via your public library system or educational institution. Each library website that has them does so in different places, so look for “Research”, “Learn”, or “Databases” on your library webpage. You will probably need to log in with your library borrower card number and PIN.
I recommend ProQuest, if you have that available. The 40-page b&w PDF of “A Strange Uncertain Light” it has for download is about 176KB in size. It should also be possible to download a plain text, html, or RTF format version. Gale and EBSCOhost have scans in unnecessary color that are 8 -12MB in size.