To help propel you into your awards season reading, here are links to excerpts or complete works from the 2020 Nebula Award finalists.
Novel
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US & UK) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk (Erewhon) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Network Effect by Martha Wells (Tordotcom) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
Novella
- Tower of Mud and Straw by Yaroslav Barsukov, Metaphorosis (full text: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4)
- Finna by Nino Cipri, Tordotcom (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark, Tordotcom (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon by Oghenechovwe D Ekpeki (in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Aurelia Leo) (free EPUB, MOBI, PDF, DOC)
- The Four Profound Weaves by Rose Lemberg, Tachyon Publications (Overdrive Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi, Tordotcom (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
Novelette
- “Stepsister” by Leah Cypess (F&SF 5-6/20)
- “The Pill” by Meg Elison (in Big Girl, PM Press)
- “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” by A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 5-6/20)
- “Two Truths and a Lie” by Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com 6/17/20)
- “Where You Linger” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Uncanny 1-2/20)
- “Shadow Prisons” by Caroline M. Yoachim (in Dystopia Triptych, Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press) (full text: The Shadow Prison Experiment – Shadow Prisons of the Mind – The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma)
Short Story
- “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse” by Rae Carson (Uncanny 1-2/20)
- “Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math” by Aimee Picchi (Daily Science Fiction 1/3/20)
- “A Guide for Working Breeds” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, Solaris)
- “The Eight-Thousanders” by Jason Sanford (Asimov’s 9-10/20)
- “My Country Is a Ghost” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 1-2/20)
- “Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 6/15/20)
Andre Norton Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
- Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko (Amulet) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Argyll) (Excerpt – 12-part Full Video Reading)
- A Game of Fox & Squirrels by Jenn Reese (Holt) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
- Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar (HarperTeen) (Excerpt – Audio Excerpt)
My short story “The Eight-Thousanders” was recently reprinted in Apex Magazine and is now online.
Thanks, JJ!
Thank you!
Thanks JJ as allways, a lot to read for free that time even two novellas.
Four of the novels but I’ve read very little of the short fiction. 🙁
Every March I’m “I should have read more short fiction last year – I’ll read more this year” and yet here we are.
I’m in the same boat, Camestros. Every year I vow that after Hugo noms are in but before finalists are announced, I’ll focus on Jan-Mar (or Apr) short fiction. And yet.
Thanks for all this, JJ!
For the past few years I’ve made a point to concentrate on short fiction from Sep to Dec. I read a quarter a month from 7 or so magazines. I’ve read 5 of the novelettes here, but only 2 of the short stories.
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I’m finally reading some of these: Open House on Haunted Hill was great fun (and “The Shadow Prisons” cycle was chilling).
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