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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1988
Date: 17 Jun 2024 18:23:31 GMT
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On 2024-06-17, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
> 1988! Osama Bin founds a social group, dynamic Dukakis faces off against 
> boring establishment man Bush, and the Soviet Union embraces sweeping 
> reforms that will ensure its immortality.
>
> Which 1988 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>
> The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
> Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
> The Forge of God by Greg Bear
> The Uplift War by David Brin
> Vergil in Averno by Avram Davidson
> When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
>
> All but the Davidson. I am very poorly read in Davidson.

Also, all but the Davidson. I would have also said I hadn't read much by
him but when I checked, I had 12 novels on my shelves! (I remember only
one from the titles, _Joyleg_)

The Brin and Effinger are Favorites. The Wolfe was ... memorable, but I've
never re-read it.

>
> Which 1988 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
>
> The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson
> Fugue State by John M. Ford
> The Secret Sharer by Robert Silverberg
> The Tiger Sweater by Keith Roberts
> The Unconquered Country by Geoff Ryman
> Witness by Walter Jon Williams
>
> Only the WJW. I have a feeling my hit rate will take a sharp plunge after
> this year. 

The WJW and the Ryman (the Ryman in some form; I'm not sure in this form.)


> Which 1988 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
>
> Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy
> Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin
> Dream Baby by Bruce McAllister
> Flowers of Edo by Bruce Sterling
> Schwarzschild Radius by Connie Willis
> The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler
>
> All of them.

Just the LeGuin
>
> Which 1987 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
>
> Forever Yours, Anna by Kate Wilhelm
> Angel by Pat Cadigan
> Cassandra's Photographs by Lisa Goldstein
> Kid Charlemagne by Paul Di Filippo
> Temple to a Minor Goddess by Susan Shwartz
> The Faithful Companion at Forty by Karen Joy Fowler
> Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers by Lawrence Watt-Evans
>
> The Wilhelm, the Cadigan, the Fowler, and the Watt-Evans. 

None

Chris