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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1999
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 22:09:44 -0400
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On 9/7/24 8:09 AM, Chris Buckley wrote:
> On 2024-09-02, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>> 1999: The Mars Polar Lander more than succeeds at landing on Mars,
>> Liberty Bell 7 is retrieved after a slight delay from the Atlantic,
>> and across the world programmers work hard to prevent a calamity,
>> efforts that will late prove politically inconvenient to acknowledge.
>>
>> Which 1999 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>>
>> Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
>> How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
>> Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
>> The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
>> The Last Hawk by Catherine Asaro
>> To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
>>
>> All but the Asaro.
> 
> I missed the Turtledove (I don't regret that), and the McDevett
> (I do regret that).  None of the others are Favorites.
> 
> Asaro remains an enigma to me.  She was a hard scientist (PhD in
> chemical physics from Harvard), nominated numerous times (9?) for
> Hugo and Nebula awards (won two Nebulas), president of the SFWA
> for two terms, has written about 40 novels, but she's remarkably unknown.
> I don't remember the last time she was discussed here (mentioned a couple
> of times but not discussed).  Her works are generally on the lighter
> space opera side, but that's true of a lot of authors, especially now.
> 

Huh - now that you mention it, I don't think I've read anything by 
Asaro. What would you recommend?

Tony