Nebula Update: The Falling Woman

I read a Nebula Best Novel winner for the first time in several years. I also let a couple of years go by without reading that year's winner. Of the six finalists this year, I have read one of them. Guess which one I'm rooting for!

This leaves me with

1. 1966: Flowers for Algernon (tie)
2. 1966: Babel-17 (tie)
3. 1968: Rite of Passage
4. 1976: Man Plus
5. 1978: Dreamsnake
6. 1981: The Claw of the Conciliator
7. 2017: All the Birds in the Sky
8. 2018: The Stone Sky

Below is my Goodreads review of The Falling Woman.

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The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


I read this in my quest to read all of the Nebula Best Novel winners. This one was a slog. That is partially on me. I prefer more traditional forms of fantasy rather than a real-world story with some mystical elements layered on.

It’s partially on the novel, though. The best novels draw me in, regardless of genre. This one didn’t, and it wasn’t helped by the at-times clunky prose.

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