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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2013
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 09:51:30 -0800
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In article <vj72vp$lnf$1@reader2.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> 2013: Poor practices on the part of train company MMA led to the obliteration 
> of Lac-Magantic as well as 47 deaths (something for which the legal 
> consequences were "surprisingly" minor), the US Supreme Court made a 
> decision that wasn't egregiously stupid and socially regressive 
> (presumably by mistake), and emergency alert systems in five states 
> are hacked to warn people of a zombie outbreak (braaaaaaains). 
> 
> 
> Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
> Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal
> Ironskin by Tina Connolly
> The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan
> The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin
> Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
> 
> All but the Kiernan, whose horror novels I'd found too silly for words,
> as the two I read involved evil but immobile entities that could be 
> eluded simply by not walking up to them to poke them with a stick. 
> 

Only the Ahmed.

> 
> Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

<snip>

None

> Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

<snip>

None

> Which 2013 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

<snip>

None

BTW, the replacement of the Asmiov's and F&SF by the online zines as a 
source of shorter fiction in the nomination ballots was almost complete.

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com