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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 1991
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 17:53:14 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <robertaw-BC4DE8.09480909072024@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>In article <v6h6ca$1fn$1@reader1.panix.com>,
> jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
>
>> In article <robertaw-E77671.09555308072024@news.individual.net>,
>> Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>> >In article <v6grjb$qaq$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>> > jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
>> 
>> snippity do dah snippity ay
>> >> 
>> >> Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
>> >> 
>> >> Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
>> >> 1/72nd Scale by Ian R. MacLeod
>> >> A Time for Every Purpose by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
>> >> Loose Cannon by Susan Shwartz
>> >> Over the Long Haul by Martha Soukup
>> >> The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. 
>> >> Skunk 
>> >> by Dafydd ab Hugh
>> >> The Manamouki by Mike Resnick
>> >> The Shobies' Story by Ursula K. Le Guin
>> >> 
>> >> No, I don't know why the number of finalists is so variable. Didn't
>> >> read the MacLeod or the Rusch. Otherwise, I have read them all. 
>> >> The ab Hugh crammed a lot of right-wing tropes into a fairly 
>> >> short story so it's no surprise he later became a far right
>> >> pundit. 
>> >> 
>> >
>> >None? BTW, ab Hugh being a far right pundit, the wikipedia article on 
>> >him doesn't mention that; are you confusing him with the David Friedman 
>> >who is the son of Milton Friedman (and is 15 years older than "ab Hugh").
>> 
>> Nope! 
>> 
>> https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008683.html
>> 
>
>I wonder how long he was a pundit; I searched for his name on Google and 
>found many mentions of books of his, but nothing else before I gave up.
>
>> I also can distinguish between Joel Rosenbergs.
>
>Two Joel Rosenbergs? ... I had never heard of Joel C. Rosenberg; thank 
>you very much destroying my innocence.
>
Joel is a common name and Rosenberg isn't exactly unique so I expect
there are a lot of Joel Rosenbergs out there.

Once during a tabletop roleplaying game campaign, I named a Surete du
Quebec character by adding the most common male given name in Quebec
to the most common surname in Quebec. If I'd bothered to drop the 
result into a search engine, I would have seen that that was the 
name of the current head of the Surete du Quebec.  
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