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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 2002
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:04:23 -0700
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In article <vcru41$ouh$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> 2002: People across the interweb tubes embraced blogging, WorldCom's 
> earning report was inexplicably snubbed by the World Fantasy Award,
> and the SARS pandemic taught the world a valuable lesson about disease 
> control it would surely never forget.
> 
> Which 2002 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
> A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
> Eternity's End by Jeffrey A. Carver
> Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis
> Passage by Connie Willis
> The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy
> The Tower at Stony Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
> 
> I have a decent hit rate for this category: the Asaro, the Landis, 
> the Willis, and the McCarthy. Avoided the Martin as the series was
> not at that time finished, I've never been able to finish a Carver
> (no idea why) and I will probably track down the McKillip. I might
> own it. 
> 

The Landis (read in 2012) and the McKillip (read in 2009).

> My hit rate plummets after novels.
> 
> 
> Which 2002 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
> 
> The Ultimate Earth by Jack Williamson
> A Roll of the Dice by Catherine Asaro
> May Be Some Time by Brenda W. Clough
> Radiant Green Star by Lucius Shepard
> The Diamond Pit by Jack Dann
> 
> Just the Shepard.
> 

The Williamson and the Clough (both were in Analog)

> 
> Which 2002 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
> 
> Louise's Ghost by Kelly Link
> Auspicious Eggs by James Morrow
> Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites by William Shunn
> The Pottawatomie Giant by Andy Duncan
> To Kiss the Star by Amy Sterling Casil
> Undone by James Patrick Kelly
> 
> Only the Kelly.
> 

None?
> 
> Which 2002 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
> 
> The Cure for Everything by Severna Park
> Kaddish for the Last Survivor by Michael A. Burstein
> Mom and Dad at the Home Front by Sherwood Smith
> The Elephants on Neptune by Mike Resnick
> Wound the Wind by George Zebrowski
> 
> Only the Smith. I should do a piece on PNH anthologies.

I think the Burstein.

> 
> Which 2002 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?

None of course

-- 
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Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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