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The Red
Linda Nagata’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 2013 by Mythic Island Press · 354 pages
Nebula · 2014
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This book is recorded on the Nebula ballot only. Each row shows the full Best Novel ballot for that award and ceremony year. Winners appear first.
★ Winner
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Finalist
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
Finalist · this book
The Red
Linda Nagata
Finalist
Fire with Fire
Charles E. Gannon
Finalist
A Stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
Finalist
The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
Finalist
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
Finalist
Hild
Nicola Griffith
Synopsis
Lieutenant James Shelley leads cybernetically enhanced soldiers in a war shaped by autonomous drones and corporate interests. When an unseen intelligence begins guiding his instincts, he investigates whether the entity called the Red is protecting or manipulating him.
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