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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1990
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 12:50:38 -0500
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On 01/07/2024 09.33, James Nicoll wrote:
> 1990! Commercial internet took the first baby steps towards the
> online utopia we now enjoy, Thatcher demonstrated to fellow Tories
> who truly enjoyed the Mandate of Heaven, and the world's supply of
> Germanies abruptly fell by half.
> 
> Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
> Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
> Ivory by Mike Resnick
> Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
> Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen
> The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
> 
> All but the Yolen. Can't say I really enjoyed the Anderson.

The Card and the Anderson. I didn't much care for it, either, and I
think that I'm probably more of an Anderson fan-boy than you are.

> Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
> 
> The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold
> A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop
> A Touch of Lavender by Megan Lindholm
> Great Work of Time by John Crowley
> Marid Changes His Mind by George Alec Effinger
> Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett

Only the Bujold, and that was as part of _Borders of Infinity_.


-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Deuteronomy 10:18-19