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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2010
Date: 18 Nov 2024 15:04:54 GMT
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On 2024-11-18, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>
> 2010! Travellers learn how to pronounce "Eyjafjallajokull", Britain's
> Liberal Democrats secure their position in history by forming a 
> coalition with the Conservatives, and the International Space Station 
> sets a record for the longest continuous human occupation of space. 
>
> Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>
> The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
> Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
> Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
> Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman
> The City & The City by China Mieville
> The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
>
> I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher 
> afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville

I read the Mieville (quite good) and the Bacigalupi, which is a
Favorite!  Different strokes for different folks (I regard it as
excellent magic realism and James regards it as bad hard sf - both
are at least somewhat true, IMO).

Nothing shorter once again.
Chris