On February 20, 2018, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) released the finalists for the Nebula awards for 2017 works.  The awards will be announced at this year’s Nebula conference on May 20, 2018.  On March 31, 2018,  the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) released the finalists for the 2018 Hugo Awards.  The awards will be presented at WorldCon 76 on August 19, 2018.  I greeted this information with delight and have been gleefully reading through the works since then.

I’ve listed the works below, with links so that you can read them.  The short stories and novelettes have links to read them online, the novellas and novels have links to where you can buy them from Amazon.

In addition, I will be posting my comments on these works.  I’m calling them reviews; however, I don’t claim that they will read like a review found in a paid magazine, newspaper or online.  I will give the basic information expected in a review, but it will be distinctly from my point of view.  I don’t claim to be able to determine the “quality” or “worthiness” of a piece; I’ll be giving my purely personal comments.  Actually, any honest reviewer will admit that they do the same.

Once everything is posted, I’ll put up a separate post to link all the reviews together.  Finally, I’ll post the winners of the two sets of awards once I know them.

Enjoy your reading!

Best Novel

• Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor).  Nebula
• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz (Tor).  Nebula
• The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (Tor).  Hugo
• Jade City by Fonda Lee (Orbit).  Nebula
• New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit).  Hugo
• Provenance by Ann Leckie (Orbit).  Hugo
• Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris). Hugo
• Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty (Orbit). Both
• Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory (Knopf). Nebula
• The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit). Both
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss (Saga). Nebula

Best Novella

• All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing).  Both
• And Then There Were (N-One) by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny March/April 2017).  Both
• Barry’s Deal by Lawrence M. Schoen (Noble Fusion Press).  Nebula
• Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing).  Hugo
• The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing).  Both
• Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing).  Hugo
• Passing Strange by Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing).  Nebula
• River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing).  Both

Best Novelette

• Children of Thorns, Children of Water by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny, July-August 2017).  Hugo
• Dirty Old Town by Richard Bowes (Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2017).  Nebula
• Extracurricular Activities by Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com, February 15, 2017).  Hugo
• A Human Stain by Kelly Robson (Tor.com, January 4, 2017).  Nebula
• The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, September 2017).  Hugo
• A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld January 2017).  Both
• Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time by K.M. Szpara (Uncanny May/June 2017).  Both
• Weaponized Math by Jonathan P. Brazee (The Expanding Universe, Vol. 3).  Nebula
• Wind Will Rove by Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s September/October 2017).  Both

Best Short Story

• Carnival Nine by Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 11, 2017).  Both
• Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand by Fran Wilde (Uncanny September/October 2017).  Both
• Fandom for Robots by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny September/October 2017).  Both
• The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard) by Matthew Kressel (Tor.com, March 15, 2017).  Nebula
• The Martian Obelisk by Linda Nagata (Tor.com, July 19, 2017).  Hugo
• Sun, Moon, Dust by Ursula Vernon, (Uncanny, May/June 2017).  Hugo
• Utopia, LOL?, Jamie Wahls (Strange Horizons, June 5, 2017).  Nebula
• Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience TM by Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex August 2017).  Both