Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2013 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 08:21:16 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:21:19 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="aae9f741f731a1b2dec0c59f83db0ca2"; logging-data="1101425"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX183Y7Hg610vC/P75sggEwVQfKbW5fUzw7I=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:PwZNVakk8BsILaiLco5WeiM/r1Y= Bytes: 3378 On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:39:37 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote: >2013: Poor practices on the part of train company MMA led to the = obliteration=20 >of Lac-Magantic as well as 47 deaths (something for which the legal=20 >consequences were "surprisingly" minor), the US Supreme Court made a=20 >decision that wasn't egregiously stupid and socially regressive=20 >(presumably by mistake), and emergency alert systems in five states=20 >are hacked to warn people of a zombie outbreak (braaaaaaains).=20 > > >Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read? >2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson >Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal >Ironskin by Tina Connolly >The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan >The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin >Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed > >All but the Kiernan, whose horror novels I'd found too silly for words, >as the two I read involved evil but immobile entities that could be=20 >eluded simply by not walking up to them to poke them with a stick.=20 But that worked so well in some of the Harryhausen Sinbad movies. >Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read? >After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress >All the Flavors by Ken Liu >Barry's Tale by Lawrence M. Schoen >Katabasis by Robert Reed >On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard >The Stars Do Not Lie by Jay Lake > >The Kress, the Reed, the de Bodard, and the Lake.=20 > > >Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read? >Close Encounters by Andy Duncan >Fade to White by Catherynne M. Valente >Portrait of Lisane de Patagnia by Rachel Swirsky >Swift, Brutal Retaliation by Meghan McCarron >The Finite Canvas by Brit Mandelo >The Pyre of New Day by Catherine Asaro >The Waves by Ken Liu > >The Duncan, the Valente, and the Mandelo.=20 > > >Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read? >Immersion by Aliette de Bodard >Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain by Cat Rambo >Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes by Tom Crosshill >Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream by Maria Dahvana Headley >Nanny's Day by Leah Cypess >Robot by Helena Bell >The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species by Ken Liu > >Only the de Bodard.=20 --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"