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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 1983
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 10:00:54 -0700
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In article <v1t7cv$ctc$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> Another week, another round of Nebula finalists. This set is from the 
> 1983 Nebula Awards, a year in which most people were blissfully unaware 
> how badly the Soviets misjudged Able Archer.
> 
> Which 1983 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop
> Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
> Friday by Robert A. Heinlein
> Helliconia Spring by Brian W. Aldiss
> The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
> The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick
> 
> All but the PKD. 

Asimov, Heinlein, and Wolfe

> 
> Which 1983 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
> 
> Another Orphan by John Kessel
> Horrible Imaginings by Fritz Leiber
> Moon of Ice by Brad Linaweaver
> Souls by Joanna Russ
> Unsound Variations by George R. R. Martin
> 
> Only the Linaweaver (which I don't recommend unless you're really
> desperate for Nazis Win WWII stories) and the Martin.
> 

Same for me, I think (though I will point out that Linaweaver had Nazi 
victory to be a very ugly thing - BTW, Willy Ley had an article 
published in the May 1947 issue of ASF, "Pseuoscience in NaziLand", that 
mentioned one crazy who claimed the Moon was covered with ice). 

> 
> Which 1983 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
> 
> Fire Watch by Connie Willis
> Burning Chrome by William Gibson
> Myths of the Near Future by J. G. Ballard
> Swarm by Bruce Sterling
> The Mystery of the Young Gentleman by Joanna Russ
> Understanding Human Behavior by Thomas M. Disch
> 
> All but the Ballard and the Disch. 
> 

IIRC, none (the first year of many in the last 4 decades)

> 
> Which 1983 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
> 
> A Letter from the Clearys by Connie Willis
> Corridors by Barry N. Malzberg
> God's Hooks! by Howard Waldrop
> High Steel by Jack Dann and Jack C. Haldeman, II
> Petra by Greg Bear
> The Pope of the Chimps by Robert Silverberg

None?

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