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Just doing some analysis of SF&F books published in 2020, and a thought/question occurs:
Last year, the stranglehold (for want of a better word) http://tor.com"> http://tor.com had over novellas was broken, with high profile releases like This is How You Lose the Time War, ...
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Last year, the stranglehold (for want of a better word) http://tor.com"> http://tor.com had over novellas was broken, with high profile releases like This is How You Lose the Time War, ...
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... To Be Taught if Fortunate, The Deep, & whatever the novella was from Ted Chiang& #39;s Exhalation.
This year though, going by no. of ratings on Goodreads, it seems like http://tor.com"> http://tor.com have returned to utterly dominate again this category again.
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This year though, going by no. of ratings on Goodreads, it seems like http://tor.com"> http://tor.com have returned to utterly dominate again this category again.
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Ranked by the number of ratings, they occupy all of the top 7 slots, and that& #39;s not including Ring Shout by one of last year& #39;s Hugo Best Novella finalists, which isn& #39;t out for another 3 or 4 weeks.
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The highest http://non-tor.com"> http://non-tor.com novellas are Bujold& #39;s The Physicians of Vilnoc at #8 and Adrian Tchaikovsky& #39;s Firewalkers at #10.
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The only other potentially high-profile novella I can think of is Claire North& #39;s Sweet Harmony, which came out in the past couple of days - but it seems to be an ebook only release, which might hurt wider awareness?
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There was also a Scalzi novella out this year, but AFAIK it& #39;s an Audible only release, so again may suffer a relatively limited audience?
Were there any other notable non http://tor.com"> http://tor.com novellas published this year?
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Were there any other notable non http://tor.com"> http://tor.com novellas published this year?
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And related, how come last year& #39;s apparent interest in this category from other publishers wasn& #39;t sustained?
Maybe in part this was due to editorial changes at Saga Press - who pubbed 2 of last years Hugo Novella finalists - but that can& #39;t be the full story?
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Maybe in part this was due to editorial changes at Saga Press - who pubbed 2 of last years Hugo Novella finalists - but that can& #39;t be the full story?
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(BTW, I& #39;m hoping to publish my analysis later today or over the weekend, primarily covering novels, but also a bit about novellas. Will be similar to this thread from earlier this year: https://twitter.com/ErsatzCulture/status/1238933479292796929">https://twitter.com/ErsatzCul... )
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