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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2007
Date: 28 Oct 2024 17:25:29 GMT
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On 2024-10-28, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
> 2007! Serbia, fresh from being found only negligent with respect 
> to genocide, wins Eurovision, the IPCC credits humans with a stalwart 
> effort to return Earth to the conditions of the PETM, and Canada proves 
> it is a world-class nation with its very first domestically-produced 
> F5 tornado.
>
> Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>
> Seeker by Jack McDevitt
> Farthing by Jo Walton
> From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
> The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
> The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
> To Crush the Moon by Wil McCarthy
>
> All of them. 

The McDevitt, Walton, and Kushner. No Favorites; I probably would rank
the Walton as the best by a little bit.  I was quite disappointed in
the Kushner; her _Swordspoint_ is a Favorite.

Before this series of James', I never really thought of McDevitt as
writing in the style to get Nebula Award attention; I obviously was wrong.
Checking now, he was a Nebula Award Novel nominee in
1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2010,2011,2014 
filling in some of those missing years as a shorter work Nebula nominee in
1983,1988,1996,1997,1999,2002
Clearly very wrong!
All those nominations, the only win was this thread's year for _Seeker_.

I read/saw none of the shorter works or films (well, read
_Howl's Moving Castle_ but that doesn't count here.)

Chris