Premee Mohamed’s And What Can We Offer You Tonight took home the award. Congratulations!īest Novella was a happy surprise in that a Neon Hemlock book won rather than a Tordotcom or Uncanny finalists (I love both of them dearly but variety is important!). I hope he writes many more novels and novellas, whether they are set in his alternate version of Cairo or elsewhere. Djèlí Clark for his novel A Master of Djinn and although it’s not my favorite work of his, I am thrilled that Clark won the Nebula. The Nebula Award Winners Have Been AnnouncedĬongratulations to all the finalists and of course the winners!īest Novel went to P. The next incarnation of Doctor Who will be played by Ncuti Gatwa, who will replace Jodi Whittaker as the alien time traveller who just can’t get enough of us humans.I have only read one of her books so far ( The Forgotten Beasts of Eld), but it was a deeply touching one that made me look forward to exploring the rest of her work all the more. In sadder news, Award-winning author Patricia McKillip died in early May.The list is well worth checking out if you’re looking for interesting books to read. Here we see familiar names such as Tade Thompson, Nnedi Okorafor, and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, but also newer ones with books still on my TBR (looking especially hard at you, T.L. And so is the shortlist for the Nommo Awards.I find it notable that Naomi Novik’s novel The Last Graduate is not listed as YA but as Fantasy Novel (as well it should be). The Locus Award Finalists are out! The list isn’t surprising but it has all the most talked about and well liked books from 2021.“News” this months may be a little older as I’ve collected things that interested me from both April and May. 🙂Īs you can imagine, reading and blogging have simply not been my highest priority, but I hope to catch up on all those unwritten reviews and new TBR additions soon. The good news is that everything is perfectly fine, we’re all healthy and happy, and we now know that our little baby is a boy. Welcome to June and a catch-up State of SFF!ĭue to pregancy stuff (buying things for the baby, doctor’s appointments, and so on), I was too preoccupied to keep up with reading or revieweing or even posting anything at all.

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