Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Buckley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2010 Date: 18 Nov 2024 15:04:54 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net TYzT0pl9Kx19QbBF1sSDCgVG4gtlao5yUFZBGWfvKc37v7ZgF7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:n893PPL4xorc+I4Ee65z5ZKPxQs= sha256:j2nVKiXczvMchW1I/TNdYX8H3S1z8e2o04fndLcM7rw= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Bytes: 1664 On 2024-11-18, James Nicoll wrote: > > 2010! Travellers learn how to pronounce "Eyjafjallajokull", Britain's > Liberal Democrats secure their position in history by forming a > coalition with the Conservatives, and the International Space Station > sets a record for the longest continuous human occupation of space. > > Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read? > > The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi > Boneshaker by Cherie Priest > Finch by Jeff VanderMeer > Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman > The City & The City by China Mieville > The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak > > I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher > afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville I read the Mieville (quite good) and the Bacigalupi, which is a Favorite! Different strokes for different folks (I regard it as excellent magic realism and James regards it as bad hard sf - both are at least somewhat true, IMO). Nothing shorter once again. Chris