All just a 20-minute drive from the airport. The hotel had a lovely courtyard with plenty of tables so you could choose sun or shade for conversations, and if you just wanted to chill lots of pretty flowers to look at and singing birds to listen to. It was a really diverse crew this year in terms of age, experience, background, identity, and art form. Actually, I would have been fine to lose to any of this year’s finalists.īest of all, Kelley and I had a fabulous weekend, reconnecting with people we hadn’t seen for years, finally meeting in person those I’ve been talking to online for a while, and meeting brand new people.
Winning is always fabulous! But it’s really not a problem for me when the award goes to a good book written by a fine person, which is what happened this year ( Babel, by R.F. Spear didn’t win the Nebula Award for Best Novel-but I hadn’t expected it to, so I wasn’t crushed. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.Me at the Nebula Awards Red Carpet-in reality a kind of nasty beige-just before the banquet and ceremony. Nebula and Lambda Award-winning author Nicola Griffith returns with Spear, a glorious queer retelling of Arthurian legend, full of dazzling magic and intoxicating adventure.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com. And she will find her love, and the lake, and her fate. On her adventures, she will meet great knights and steal the hearts of beautiful women. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court.Īnd so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides on a bony gelding to Caer Leon.
The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. This program is read by the author and includes a bonus PDF of detailed notes.Ī spellbinding and subversive queer recasting of Arthurian myth by the legendary author of Hild
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