Build A Shelf: Debut Books on the H/N List

[Allan]

For 2023, we have a new theme: debut books on the H/N list. We need to build a new shelf for this, so let's make a game out of identifying the greatest number! If the winner is in the US, I'll send them a random SFF paperback from my collection (if they want it). If not in the US, I'll check the postage & if it's reasonable, I'll send it there.

[Kalin]

I started work on it, the shelf is "7-debut-novels"
I started using #7 for random categories we've created, switched one-hit-wonders to 7 as well.

I'll add a read version as well and start from current year going back in time.

[Kalin]

For the record, I am counting any author's first NOVEL as a debut, even if they have short story/novella writing credits to their name. Since our list only counts novels.

[Allan]

Kalin wrote: "For the record, I am counting any author's first NOVEL as a debut, even if they have short story/novella writing credits to their name. Since our list only counts novels."

Agreed. Please post your additions here as well so I can reward you if you win.

[Kalin]

Will do. I'm gonna win :P

[Kalin]

I've tackled the 2000s. I've listed by their award year, though a few might be best of because Nebula. It's interesting doing this because it looks like the nominations for debuts is escalating over time, and very much a Nebula thing, rarely a Hugo thing.

Debuts the group has already read
(1951) Jack Vance, The Dying Earth
(1979) James Tiptree Jr., Up the Walls of the World
(1983) R. A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon
(1985) William Gibson, Neuromancer
(1985) Kim Stanley Robinson, The Wild Shore
(1993) Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang
(2004) Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
(2005) Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
(2007) Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
(2010) Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl
(2014) Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
(2014) Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
(2017) Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning
(2018) Fonda Lee, Jade City

TBR
(1940) A. E. van Vogt, Slan
(1943) Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia
(1944) Fritz Leiber, Conjure Wife
(1945) Leigh Brackett, Shadow over Mars
(1953) Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
(1954) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
(1960) Robert Sheckly, Immortality Inc.
(1961) Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
(1962) Daniel F. Galouye, Dark Universe
(1966) Thomas M. Disch, The Genocides
(1966) G.C. Edmondson, The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
(1966) Theodore L. Thomas, The Clone
(1966) Roger Zelazny, This Immortal
(1967) Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
(1967) Thomas Burnett Swann, Day of the Minotaur
(1968) Piers Anthony, Chthon
(1969) R.A. Lafferty, Past Master
(1969) Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage
(1969) Joanna Russ, Picnic on Paradise
(1972) T.J. Bass, Half Past Human
(1973) George Alec Effinger, What Entropy Means to Me
(1976) Michael Bishop, A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
(1976) Arthur Byron Cover, Autumn Angels
(1976) Vonda N. McIntyre, The Exile Waiting
(1976) Ian Watson, The Embedding
(1978) George R.R. Martin, Dying of the Light
(1979) Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
(1981) Robert Stallman, The Orphan
(1982) A.A. Attanasio, Radix
(1983) Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite
(1985) David R. Palmer, Emergence
(1987) Leigh Kennedy, The Journal of Nicholas the American
(1995) Jonathan Lethem, Gun With Occasional Music
(2001) Geoffrey A. Landis, Mars Crossing
(2002) Kelley Eskridge, Solitaire
(2006) John Scalzi, Old Man's War
(2008) David J. Schwartz, Superpowers
(2010) Mary Robinette Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey
(2010) M.K. Hobson, The Native Star
(2011) N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
(2011) Genevieve Valentine, Mecanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
(2012) Tina Connolly, Ironskin
(2013) Saladin Ahmed, Throne of the Crescent Moon
(2014) Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria
(2016) Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
(2016) Fran Wilde, Updraft
(2017) Mishell Baker, Borderline
(2017) Nisi Shawl, Everfair


TBR not yet eligible for nomination
(2018) Lara Elena Donnelly, Amberlough
(2018) Annalee Newitz, Autonomous
(2019) C.L. Polk, Witchmark
(2019) R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
(2019) Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day
(2020) Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
(2020) Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire
(2020) Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth
(2022) C.L. Clark, The Unbroken
(2022) P. Djeli Clark, A Master of Djinn
(2022) S.B. Divya, Machinehood
(2022) Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
(2022) Jason Sanford, Plague Birds

[Kalin]

Okay, so I did the whole thing. The bookshelf is fully updated and so is the list above. I may have missed one or two along the way.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Kalin wrote: "Okay, so I did the whole thing. The bookshelf is fully updated and so is the list above. I may have missed one or two along the way."

You are fast! Thanks for that!

[Allan]

You win!

[Allan]

Thanks, Kalin! I also have a good start on the multiple awards category. I built a new tab in my spreadsheet that has a matrix of all the books & the 29 awards. I’ll put it out on the google drive once I get a little farther.

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

This is great! thanks!

[Allan]

By the way, I took down the Adapted to Screen category as we already have that one. I checked the books over and it appears to be correct, barring newer entries.