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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: [Nebula] Nebula Finalists 2006
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:06:34 -0700
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In article <vf5n4f$48c$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> 2006! New Horizons began its long journey to Pluto, the United Nations 
> Human Rights Council's formation signals the permanent end to all human 
> rights violations, and Canada's Stephen Harper forms a minority government, 
> in what is surely his only term before Canadians come back to their 
> senses.
> 
> Which 2006 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
> Air by Geoff Ryman
> Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
> Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
> Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright
> Polaris by Jack McDevitt
> 
> All of them, even the Wright. 
> 

None (I looked ahead, this comment will be repeated for the Novel 
commentary frequently for future years)

> 
> Which 2006 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
> 
> Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
> Clay's Pride by Bud Sparhawk
> Identity Theft by Robert J. Sawyer
> Left of the Dial by Paul Witcover
> The Tribes of Bela by Albert E. Cowdrey
> 
> Just the Link and the Cowdrey.
> 

Just the Sparhawk (it was in Analog)

> 
> Which 2006 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
> 
> The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link
> Flat Diane by Daniel Abraham
> Men Are Trouble by James Patrick Kelly
> Nirvana High by Eileen Gunn and Leslie What
> The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi
> 
> All but the Abraham. 
> 
None
> 
> Which 2006 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
> 
> I Live with You by Carol Emshwiller
> Born-Again by K. D. Wentworth
> My Mother, Dancing by Nancy Kress
> Singing My Sister Down by Margo Lanagan
> Still Life with Boobs by Anne Harris
> The End of the World As We Know It by Dale Bailey
> There's a Hole in the City by Richard Bowes 
> 
> The Emshwiller, the Lanagan, the Bailey, and the Bowes. 
> 

I believe none.

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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