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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: (Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1986
Date: 3 Jun 2024 17:46:48 GMT
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On 2024-06-03, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
> The Nebula finalists of 1986! Halley's comet reached perihelion, 
> Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov began its ongoing submarine 
> exploration of the Marlborough Sound, and Big Bird was cut from 
> the crew roster of the Jan 8, 1986 launch of Space Shuttle Columbia.
>
> Which 1986 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>
> Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
> Blood Music by Greg Bear
> Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers
> Helliconia Winter by Brian W. Aldiss
> Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
> The Postman by David Brin
> The Remaking of Sigmund Freud by Barry N. Malzberg
>
> All but the Malzberg.

The Card is a strong Favorite, the Bear is quite good, I've read the Powers,
Sterling, and Brin.

> Which 1986 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
>
> Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg
> 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny
> Green Days in Brunei by Bruce Sterling
> Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
> The Gorgon Field by Kate Wilhelm
> The Only Neat Thing to Do by James Tiptree, Jr.
>
> All but the Zelazny and the Wilhelm.

The Zelazny and Tiptree.

>
> Which 1986 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
>
> Portraits of His Children by George R. R. Martin
> A Gift from the GrayLanders by Michael Bishop
> Dogfight by William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
> Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison
> Rockabye Baby by S. C. Sykes
> The Fringe by Orson Scott Card
> The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard
>
> All but the Bishop. 

The Ellison, Card, and Gibson/Swanick
I'm surprised at 3!

>
> Which 1986 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
>
> Out of All Them Bright Stars by Nancy Kress
> Flying Saucer Rock & Roll by Howard Waldrop
> Heirs of the Perisphere by Howard Waldrop
> Hong's Bluff by William F. Wu
> More Than the Sum of His Parts by Joe Haldeman
> Paper Dragons by James P. Blaylock
> Snow by John Crowley
> The Gods of Mars by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
>
> All but the Gods of Mars. 

None.  Much more the expected number.

Chris