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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1999
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:53:42 -0700
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In article <vb4sth$koe$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> 1999: The Mars Polar Lander more than succeeds at landing on Mars,
> Liberty Bell 7 is retrieved after a slight delay from the Atlantic,
> and across the world programmers work hard to prevent a calamity,
> efforts that will late prove politically inconvenient to acknowledge.
> 
> Which 1999 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
> How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
> Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
> The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
> The Last Hawk by Catherine Asaro
> To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
> 
> All but the Asaro. 
> 

None

> 
> Which 1999 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
> 
> Reading the Bones by Sheila Finch
> Aurora in Four Voices by Catherine Asaro
> Ecopoiesis by Geoffrey A. Landis
> Izzy and the Father of Terror by Eliot Fintushel
> Jumping Off the Planet by David Gerrold
> The Boss in the Wall by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis
> 
> Only the Asaro and the Landis. Not a great year for me and short SFF.
> 

I think I have read the Asaro, the Landis, and Gerrold.

> 
> Which 1999 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
> 
> Lost Girls by Jane Yolen
> Echea by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
> Lethe by Walter Jon Williams
> The Mercy Gate by Mark J. McGarry
> The Truest Chill by Gregory Feeley
> Time Gypsy by Ellen Klages
> 
> Only the Williams and the Klages. 
> 

None

> 
> Which 1999 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
> 
> Thirteen Ways to Water by Bruce Holland Rogers
> Fortune and Misfortune by Lisa Goldstein
> Standing Room Only by Karen Joy Fowler
> Tall One by K. D. Wentworth
> When the Bow Breaks by Steven Brust
> Winter Fire by Geoffrey A. Landis
> 
> None what so ever. 2000 is likely to be as bad, then Andrew Wheeler
> started force-feeding me fiction of all lengths.

None for me as well. Since nobody was force-feeding me fiction of all 
lengths the last 25 years, I suspect that none will be a frequent reply 
from me for the next 25 installments.

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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