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On 5/20/2024 10:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> This week in Which Nebula Finalists Have You Read?: 1984! The year in
> which Brian Mulroney won a 211-seat majority, the Americans presumably
> held some sort of federal election, and the UK was organizing funds for
> overseas famine relief rather than doing their best to ensure famines
> at home!
> 
> Note: if you've read Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction, First
> Annual Collection, you've read a lot of the shorter pieces.
> 
> Which 1984 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> Startide Rising by David Brin
> Against Infinity by Gregory Benford
> Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance
> Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy
> The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
> The Void Captain's Tale by Norman Spinrad
> 

Brin, Vance, MacAvoy, Wolfe

> 
> Which 1984 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
> 
> Hardfought by Greg Bear
> Eszterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention by Avram Davidson
> Her Habiline Husband by Michael Bishop
> Homefaring by Robert Silverberg
> The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis (or, the Astrogator's
>   Testimony) by Michael Bishop
> Transit by Vonda N. McIntyre

None

> Which 1984 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
> 
> Blood Music by Greg Bear
> Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson
> Blind Shemmy by Jack Dann
> Cicada Queen by Bruce Sterling
> Slow Birds by Ian Watson
> The Monkey Treatment by George R. R. Martin
> The Sidon in the Mirror by Connie Willis

Bear and Watson

> Which 1984 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
> 
> The Peacemaker by Gardner Dozois
> Cryptic by Jack McDevitt
> Ghost Town by Chad Oliver
> Her Furry Face by Leigh Kennedy
> The Geometry of Narrative by Hilbert Schenck
> Wong's Lost and Found Emporium by William F. Wu

Kennedy and Wu

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