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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1975
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:49:28 -0400
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James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <20240318b@crcomp.net>, Don  <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
>> James Nicoll wrote:
>>> Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>>>
>>> The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
>>> Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
>>
>> _Flow_ was read by me. As you can personally attest, PKD isn't for
>> everyone. Yet he seems to mostly work for me. Presumably PKD's
>> partially New Wave, given the appearance of "Faith of Our Fathers"
>> in _Dangerous Visions_?
>>     Speaking of ambiguous utopia, yesterday a different New Wave
>> novel was jettisoned by me half way through for failure to follow a
>> plot, or plotlessness. A leading Lafferty scholar (how many authors
>> can claim their own personal scholar?) warns as much in his Intro to
>> Lafferty [1]:
> 
> [big snip]
> 
> I do not get the attraction of Lafferty at all.

I can understand that, in general.

But not even "900 Grandmothers"?

William Hyde