OMG you guys the Nebula nominees. I don't remember ...

 OMG you guys the Nebula nominees. I don't remember when I last was as happy with a Nebula list. Probably never.

Shweta Narayan ( shweta_narayan  ) is on it with one of my favorite stories novelettes ever: Pishaach is a snakey bride story from The Beastly Bride. The title always made me happy - it means "witch", but to my Russian-speaking ear it sounds like Russian pischat' 'to squeal' - which is oddly appropriate, because I squealed when I first read it, I squealed when it sold, I squealed when it came out...and now, once again with feeling, SQUEEEEEEE for Shweta Narayan!

And the other people on this list? Amal El-Mohtar ( tithenai  ), Christopher Kastensmidt ( ckastens  ), J. K. Cheney ( j_cheney  ), Rachel Swirsky ( rachel_swirsky  ) - congratulations, guys!!! Well done, well done!

Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death is on the list as well. I cannot be more thrilled. This was by far the best book I read in 2010. I have already reread it twice, and it has not lost its power for me.  If I could compose an ode to this book, I would. People, I want to write love poetry for this book. I wish I could write something more substantial about it, but I finally made peace with the fact that I'm not a reviewer type of person; all I can do is squee.  So here: SQUEEEEE.