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The Informed Voter Project, Part the Third: The Nebula Award Novella Finalists

Well, here we are in the third installment of the Informed Voter Project. Today I’ll be looking at the Novella finalists! In the first post on short stories I wrote that for me, each one was a tale about identity. The novelettes, I felt, sustained my little thesis. The novellas didn’t play along quite as nicely, though. This week, the Identity Thesis suffers a bit of a setback—but who cares, when the reading’s so good? The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, [...]

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The Informed Voter Project, Part the Second: The Nebula Award Novelette Finalists

I’ll tell you this much: the hardest part about this is not getting the reading done. It’s actually getting the post written. I think I am discovering that I’m not a born blogger, and my time is running out. I’m really going to have to start moving faster on this project. But to put you out of your misery, since I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for the verdict after week two of the IVP: the Identity [...]

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The Informed Voter Project, Part the First: The Nebula Award Short Story Finalists

Oh, this project is shaping up to be a lot of fun. Here’s my bit of full disclosure: my Twitter posts did not accurately reflect the order or days on which I read these stories. I read them all last week. I read them on the subway on the way to and from work. I read them on my lunch breaks. I read them walking home from picking up a bottle of wine one night, tilting dogeared and pencil-marked pages [...]

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Adventures in the SFWA: My Efforts to be an Informed Nebula Voter

It’s Awards Season! Yes, I’ll be watching the Oscars this weekend, but I’m not really talking about that. March is voting month for members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). In May, the organization will present Nebula Awards to one exceptional short story, novelette, novella, and novel; the Bradbury Award to one film, and the Andre Norton Award to a young adult novel. Last November, on the suggestion of a couple very nice gentlemen I met [...]

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