Another Nebula finalist, and a deserving one. Here I was, all ready to rip SFWA for not having honored either Mockingbird or Perfect Circle with the Nebula award, and then when I looked up the finalists those years, found that he had lost to Parable of the Talents (which, while good, was really a belated honoring of Parable of the Sower) and Paladin of Souls (which I liked just as much as Perfect Circle) respectively. Oh, well. Bad timing, Sean.
Unfortunately, since Perfect Circle, Stewart's bibliography consists of a Star Wars novel and a trilogy of YA ARGs. A guy's gotta eat, but one wonders if a well-deserved Nebula would have given his works enough of a sales boost to keep him writing the good stuff (though given that the wonderful Nicola Griffith hasn't published a SF novel since winning in 1995, who knows?). As it stands, I need to look into his earlier stuff.
Note: posted 4/24/2013, backdated because to when I finished the book and wrote up my original notes.
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