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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 2009
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:30:28 -0800
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On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:48:55 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

>2009: Minecraft is released, the Treaty of Lisbon comes into force, and=20
>the common vernacular now includes the term "alt-right".
>
>Which 2009 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>
>Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
>Brasyl by Ian McDonald
>Cauldron by Jack McDevitt
>Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
>Making Money by Terry Pratchett
>Superpowers by David J. Schwartz
>
>The McDonald, the McDevitt, the Pratchett, and the Schwartz.
>
>
>Which 2009 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
>
>The Spacetime Pool by Catherine Asaro
>Dangerous Space by Kelley Eskridge
>Dark Heaven by Gregory Benford
>The Duke in His Castle by Vera Nazarian
>The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay
>
>Just the Benford and the Finlay.
>
>
>Which 2009 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
>
>Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
>Baby Doll (translation of Baby Doll) by Johanna Sinisalo
>Dark Rooms by Lisa Goldstein
>If Angels Fight by Richard Bowes
>Kaleidoscope by K. D. Wentworth
>Night Wind by Mary Rosenblum
>The Ray-Gun: A Love Story by James Alan Gardner
>
>Just the Kessel, the Bowes, and the Gardner.
>
>
>Which 2009 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
>
>Trophy Wives by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
>26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss by Kij Johnson
>Don't Stop by James Patrick Kelly
>Mars: A Traveler's Guide by Ruth Nestvold
>The Button Bin by Mike Allen
>The Dreaming Wind by Jeffrey Ford
>The Tomb Wife by Gwyneth Jones
>
>None.

None of the above.

>Which 2009 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?
>WALL-E by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, and Peter Docter
>Stargate Atlantis: The Shrine by Brad Wright
>The Dark Knight by Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer
>
>WALL-E and The Dark Knight.

Same here.

WALL-E was delightful. Although I'm not sure the humans depicted could
actually make a go of it.

The Dark Knight was ... loud. Very loud. So load that the bits with
Bruce Wayne were a welcome relief because they weren't so loud.

And I think the story punted on the two boats resolution. I may not
have actually guessed it, but it was obvious that way too much time
was being spent on the bad guys -- that is, that we were being led
down a garden path to a Big Surprise which failed because, after the
buildup, it wasn't a surprise.

Oh, and a better title would be "The Fate of Harvey Dent". Since
that's who the film was actually about.

Advertising itself as Heath Ledger's last movie when Heath Ledger's
actual last movie, /The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus/, was still in
the late stages of being made, was, of course, unforgivably coarse and
exploitative.

All of that IMHO, of course.

>I am struck by how poorly reprinted some of these stories are. Also, =
appalled at my low hit rate, given that the SFBC, RT, and PW were all =
funnelling books to me by the wheelbarrow load.

Perhaps the voters were mostly drunk at the time. That appears to be
the explanation why many films whose trailers present an entire screen
of film festival awards turn out, when seen, to be ... losers.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"