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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1993
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:46:57 -0700
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In article <v7ln5t$2ru$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> Which 1993 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
> A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
> A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
> Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
> China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
> Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
> 
> I've read all of them. 
> 
Vinge, Barnes, and Yolen

> 
> Which 1993 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
> 
> City of Truth by James Morrow
> Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard
> Contact by Lee Goodloe and Jerry Oltion
> Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick
> Protection by Maureen F. McHugh
> Silver or Gold by Emma Bull
> The Territory by Bradley Denton
> 
> Just the Morrow (which I thought was a novel), the Swanwick, the McHugh,
> and the Denton. 
> 

Maybe the Bull (I have the anthology the story is in, but "Silver or 
Gold" doesn't look familiar).
> 
> Which 1993 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
> 
> Danny Goes to Mars by Pamela Sargent
> Matter's End by Gregory Benford
> Prayers on the Wind by Walter Jon Williams
> Suppose They Gave a Peace ... by Susan Shwartz
> The Honeycrafters by Carolyn Ives Gilman
> The July Ward by Sharon N. Farber
> 
> The Benford, the Williams, the Shwartz, and the Gilman. I know
> _of_ Danny Goes to Mars, which dates from the era when Republicans
> were ludricrous, not people with a keen interest in certain logistical
> details of the Third Reich. 
> 

None?

> 
> Which 1993 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
> 
> Even the Queen by Connie Willis
> Lennon Spex by Paul Di Filippo
> Life Regarded As a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats by Michael Bishop
> The Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup
> The Mountain to Mohammed by Nancy Kress
> Vinland the Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
> 
> The Willis (it was hard to avoid), the Bishop, the Kress, and the 
> Robinson.

None?

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