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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1992
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:43:58 -0700
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In article <v739bb$p2q$1@panix2.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> 1992: The Imperial Family of Russia faced a succession crisis following 
> Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich's death, the Maastricht Treaty brought 
> Europe closer to the utopian unity it enjoys today, and having 
> successfully defeated Iraq and brought the Cold War with the Soviet 
> Union to a close, George H. W. Bush faces an easy campaign against 
> scandal-plagued challenger, Bill Clinton. 
> 
> Which 1992 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
> Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
> Bone Dance by Emma Bull
> Orbital Resonance by John Barnes
> Synners by Pat Cadigan
> The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
> 
> All of them! Which will be the high water mark for this entry. I
> was not reading magazines and I seem to have been reading the
> wrong anthologies. 
> 

Bujold and Bull

> 
> Which 1992 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
> 
> Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
> Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana by Michael Bishop
> Bully! by Mike Resnick
> Jack by Connie Willis
> Man Opening a Door by Pauline Ashwell
> The Gallery of His Dreams by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
> 
> Just the Willis and the Rusch. 
> 

Ashwell only

> 
> Which 1992 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
> 
> Guide Dog by Mike Conner
> Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler
> Gate of Faces by Ray Aldridge
> Getting Real by Susan Shwartz
> Standing in Line with Mister Jimmy by James Patrick Kelly
> The All-Consuming by Robert Frazier and Lucius Shepard
> The Happy Man by Jonathan Lethem
> 
> Just the Kelly and the Frazier & Shepard. I had not even heard
> of the Conner and the Aldridge. 
> 

None

> 
> Which 1992 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
> 
> Ma Qui by Alan Brennert
> Buffalo by John Kessel
> Dog's Life by Martha Soukup
> the button, and what you know by W. Gregory Stewart
> The Dark by Karen Joy Fowler
> They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
> 
> The Kessel, the Fowler, and the Bisson.

None? (I have certainly heard of the Bisson, but I can't remember if I 
had read it)

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