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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 2005
Date: 15 Oct 2024 13:28:02 GMT
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On 2024-10-14, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>
> 2005: The discovery of the TNO Eris inspires a definition of the term 
> planet that vexes Pluto fans to this day, Paul Martin managed to keep
> his Liberal government stumbling along despite the bag of dead cats
> he'd been handed by his predecessor, and a re-elected George W. 
> Bush wows the world with his adroit management of the Katrina crisis.
>
> Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>
> Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
> Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
> Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
> Omega by Jack McDevitt
> Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
> The Knight by Gene Wolfe
>
> Just the Bujold, Doctorow, and the Wolfe. 

All but the McDevitt (I didn't think I missed that many of his) and Stewart.
No Favorite Bookcase books; I liked the Bujold the most and the
Mitchell the least.

None of the shorter works

> Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?
>
> The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
> Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry
> The Butterfly Effect by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress
> The Incredibles by Brad Bird
>
> Just the LOTR film and (despite the insistence of theatre staff that
> I exit their burning theatre) the Bird.

Those are the two that I saw.

I fell well behind on responding to the previous years.  I'll comment
on just the novels now; I don't think I read anything shorter but I
won't bother checking.


>  Which 2002 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
> A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
> Eternity's End by Jeffrey A. Carver
> Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis
> Passage by Connie Willis
> The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy
> The Tower at Stony Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
> 
> I have a decent hit rate for this category: the Asaro, the Landis,
> the Willis, and the McCarthy. Avoided the Martin as the series was
> not at that time finished, I've never been able to finish a Carver
> (no idea why) and I will probably track down the McKillip. I might
> own it.

Just the Asaro, Martin, and McKillip.  No Favorites again, though the
McKillip is close.  The Asaro and Martin are both good.


> Which 2003 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> American Gods by Neil Gaiman
> Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick
> Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
> Picoverse by Robert A. Metzger
> Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
> The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
> 
> All but the Gaiman and the Mieville. Funny I'd miss
> those two authors in particular.

I read those two, and the Swannick and Metzger.  A major miss for me
in that I evidently missed the LeGuin! Ordered now.

Again no Favorites, with the Mieville close and the Gaiman was good.

> Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
> Chindi by Jack McDevitt
> Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
> Light Music by Kathleen Ann Goonan
> The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
> The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
> 
> The Moon, the McDevitt, and the Bujold.

Those three for me also.  The Moon was a close to Favorite, and the Bujold was
good.

Chris