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From: davidd02@tpg.com.au (David Duffy)
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1992
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William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It took me years to get around to reading these two.  Could the rest be 
> as rewarding?
> 
>> The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

Is pretty good. It's _real_ science fiction ;)

"...Foulke had manoeuvred his way onto the Geographical's Nominations Committee.
Foulke, whose aquatic theory of Brontosaurus had been spurned by Huxley's
Museum, had taken Mallory's arborivore hypothesis as a personal attack, with the
result that an ordinarily pleasant formality had become yet another public trial
for radical Catastrophism.

"...'The man had a bump on the side of his forehead', said Mallory.

"'Frontal plagiocephaly', the boy said.'[...] They're spoony on skulls, in Criminal 
Anthropometry...'"