The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA, weirdly, because the acronym is missing an F) has announced the nominations for the Nebula Award today. I'm pretty jazzed about the list. Last year I stunt read all of the novel nominees, and maybe I'll do that again. Seems like a stronger list of novels, so it's not like I'll be disappointed.

Many of the publishers make the shorter fictions available online in the run-up; maybe I'll hunt around for some links when I'm less lazy. Here's "Selkies Stories are for Losers" by Sofia Samatar (who is also nominated in the novel category) because Joel already found that for me. It's aces. 

Just got this book for $1.99 over at Amazon for my Kindle. Guess which book I'll be reading, first thing, next month? :D

Read this review of what sounds like a fantastic new novel.  Definitely going to add this to my list of books to get.

A bit from the review:

"In Helene Wecker’s first novel, two more than usually disoriented foreigners emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York. One is a golem, a clay woman fashioned near Danzig, then shipped across the ocean as the wife of a man who inconveniently dies on the voyage. The other is a jinni from the Syrian desert, trapped inside a copper flask until a hapless tinsmith sets him free during a routine repair."