Best Novella 2021

When I talked about Best Novel, I went through the finalists in ballot order and then gave my thoughts on how I'm ranking them. That introduced some redundancy and is part of what made the post way too long. So now I'm combining those and just writing my thoughts on these novellas in the order that I'm ranking them. This means the order of the cut tags is a mild spoiler for the works, in that it can give away how I felt about something you haven't read yet relative to something you have read. If this is a problem for you and you have an idea for how I should address it, please let me know.


( The Empress of Salt and Fortune, by Nghi Vo )

( Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark )

( Riot Baby, by Tochi Onyebuchi )

( Finna, by Nino Cipri )

( Come Tumbling Down, by Seanan McGuire )

( Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey )

( Votes )

Best Novelette 2021

ambyr: You know, if you make one post per day you're going to run out of days

So, I'd better make some more posts today! Here's Best Novelette.

( Helicopter Story, by Isabel Fall )

( Monster, by Naomi Kritzer )

( Two Truths and a Lie, by Sarah Pinsker )

( The Inaccessibility of Heaven, by Aliette de Bodard )

( Burn, or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super, by A.T. Greenblatt )

( The Pill, by Meg Elison )

( Votes )