It’s award season in Science Fiction and Fantasy Land, with the 49th annual Nebula Awards Weekend starting TODAY (Terry and I will be attending), and the Hugos coming up in August. The Hugo slate wins the Everyone’s-in-a-Froth award for the nomination of the entire WHEEL OF TIME series in the best novel category, a nomination which is allowed by the World Science Fiction Society, but leaves people saying, “Wha—hunh?”

We’ve got all the short-listed novels reviewed (links below), but we want to know what you think. Have you read them? Which books do you think will win? Which books do you think should would win? Which 2013 books are not on these lists but should be? One random commenter will get to choose a book from our Stacks.

THE NEBULA NOMINEES FOR BEST NOVEL:

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  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (review)
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (reviews)
  • Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon (review)
  • Hild by Nicola Griffith (reviews)
  • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (reviews)
  • The Red; First Light by Linda Nagata (review)
  • A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar (review)
  • The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (reviews)

THE HUGO NOMINEES FOR BEST NOVEL:

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  • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (reviews)
  • Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross (review)
  • Parasite by Mira Grant (reviews)
  • Warbound by Larry Correia (review)
  • THE WHEEL OF TIME by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (reviews)

Author

  • Marion Deeds

    Marion Deeds, with us since March, 2011, is the author of the fantasy novella ALUMINUM LEAVES. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies BEYOND THE STARS, THE WAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, STRANGE CALIFORNIA, and in Podcastle, The Noyo River Review, Daily Science Fiction and Flash Fiction Online. She’s retired from 35 years in county government, and spends some of her free time volunteering at a second-hand bookstore in her home town.