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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1990
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 19:58:36 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <v61l95$1p0q7$1@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 01/07/2024 13.55, James Nicoll wrote:
>> In article <v5uq9e$168of$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Welllll, there's a set of SF authors with whose flaws I am intimately
>> familiar because I read and reread and reread so much of their stuff
>> because their virtues outweighed their flaws. Poul Anderson might be
>> the example whose works I own the most of, because he was so prolific.
>
>I seem to have not communicated clearly. To me, the term "fanboy"
>refers to attitude rather than knowledge. It implies things such
>as "adulation", "uncritical acceptance".
>
>A fanboy wouldn't say something like "X's virtues outweigh his
>flaws", but would say "what flaws?"

Is it truely fandom to ignore an aspect of someone's work? 

>> In fact, one of my first proposals for tor dot com was for me to do
>> with Anderson what Tarr was doing for Norton.
>
>Interesting. What was Tarr doing for Norton? At one time, I loved her
>work, but now find it a real chore to read.
>
Tarr did (and might still be doing) a long running series of reviews
of Norton novels. _I_ received 50 Nortons and barely scratched the 
surface. 

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