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687: Resurrected Corpse

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The Book Club closes the door on this year’s awards shortlist with some lively book ranking and a tour of the nominated short fiction.

Awards novel wrap and Hugo short fiction!

Jason Snell with Aleen Simms, Erika Ensign, Scott McNulty and Heather Berberet

Referenced Works
Legends & Lattes
[Amazon] [Apple]
Spear
[Amazon] [Apple]
Babel
[Amazon] [Apple]
Mountain in the Sea
[Amazon] [Apple]
Nettle & Bone
[Amazon] [Apple]
The Spare Man
[Amazon] [Apple]
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
[Amazon] [Apple]
Nona the Ninth
[Amazon] [Apple]
The Kaiju Preservation Society
[Amazon] [Apple]
Show Notes & Links

Our collective Hugo & Nebula shortlist rankings:

  1. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
  2. Spear by Nicola Griffith
  3. Babel by R. F. Kuang
  4. The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler / Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (tie)
  5. The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
  6. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  7. Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  8. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

    9. Novellas

    • Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
    • Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
    • A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow
    • Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky
    • What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
    • Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire

      • Best Novelette

      • “The Difference Between Love and Time” by Catherynne M. Valente
      • “A Dream of Electric Mothers” by Wole Talabi
      • “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” by John Chu
      • “Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness” by S.L. Huang
      • “The Space-Time Painter” by Hai Ya
      • “We Built This City” by Marie Vibbert

        • Best Short Story

        (Our apologies that some of these stories aren’t available anywhere on the Internet in English… hopefully the attention given by the Hugo nominations will lead to them being available eventually.)

        • “D.I.Y.” by John Wiswell
        • “On the Razor’s Edge” by Jiang Bo
        • “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills
        • “Resurrection” by Ren Qing, translated by Blake Stone-Banks
        • “The White Cliff” by Lu Ban
        • “Zhurong on Mars” by Regina Kanyu Wang

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