# Nebula Award Nominees (novel) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nebula-award-nominees-novel/616149 "2012-03-18T18:38:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nebula-award-nominees-novel/616149/1 "2012-03-18T18:38:17Z")
The nominees for the Nebula Award for novel have been announced. How many have you read? If you’ve read some of them which one is your favorite and why? Poll to come. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nebula-award-nominees-novel/616149/2 "2012-03-18T18:49:27Z")
I’m afraid I haven’t read any of them. I tend to prefer Hugo winners to Nebula winners, but this isn’t to say that I’ll never pick up a Nebula winner or nominee, it’s just that I don’t always get books when they first come out. I almost never buy new hardcover books. ---
**Author:** ![charmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@charmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/charmstr)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nebula-award-nominees-novel/616149/3 "2012-03-18T18:58:04Z")
Wow. I’ve only ever heard of one of these authors: China Miéville. I haven’t read _Embassytown_ but I did read his novel _Kraken_ and loved it. I have to say that none of the titles grab me. Guess I’ll head over to Amazon or GoodReads and see what they’re about. ---
**Author:** ![charmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@charmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/charmstr)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nebula-award-nominees-novel/616149/4 "2012-03-18T19:11:07Z")
Just a note, the author of God’s War is Kameron (not Cameron) Hurley. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nebula-award-nominees-novel/616149/5 "2012-03-19T13:51:22Z")
> [@charmstr](#): > > Wow. I’ve only ever heard of one of these authors: China Miéville. I haven’t read _Embassytown_ but I did read his novel _Kraken_ and loved it. I have to say that none of the titles grab me. Guess I’ll head over to Amazon or GoodReads and see what they’re about. McDevitt has been publishing a series of good hard SF novels over the past decade. I really loved his universe, where FTL travel is not very fast and life is rare. Good characters, too. But he made some changes in **Cauldron** a few years ago, including solving the central mystery, that put an end to that. His current series is much the same in concept. N. K. Jemison’s first novel, **The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms** was spectacular; this is the third in the same series. I’ve read a reasonable amount of short fiction by Genevieve Valentine. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nebula-award-nominees-novel/616149/6 "2012-03-19T14:48:18Z")
Yeah, I’m afraid to admit I haven’t read any of them, and the only author I’ve read at all is Mievelle.