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Subject: [Nebula] Nebula Finalists 2006
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2006! New Horizons began its long journey to Pluto, the United Nations 
Human Rights Council's formation signals the permanent end to all human 
rights violations, and Canada's Stephen Harper forms a minority government, 
in what is surely his only term before Canadians come back to their 
senses.

Which 2006 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
Air by Geoff Ryman
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright
Polaris by Jack McDevitt

All of them, even the Wright. 


Which 2006 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Clay's Pride by Bud Sparhawk
Identity Theft by Robert J. Sawyer
Left of the Dial by Paul Witcover
The Tribes of Bela by Albert E. Cowdrey

Just the Link and the Cowdrey.


Which 2006 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link
Flat Diane by Daniel Abraham
Men Are Trouble by James Patrick Kelly
Nirvana High by Eileen Gunn and Leslie What
The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi

All but the Abraham. 


Which 2006 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

I Live with You by Carol Emshwiller
Born-Again by K. D. Wentworth
My Mother, Dancing by Nancy Kress
Singing My Sister Down by Margo Lanagan
Still Life with Boobs by Anne Harris
The End of the World As We Know It by Dale Bailey
There's a Hole in the City by Richard Bowes 

The Emshwiller, the Lanagan, the Bailey, and the Bowes. 

Which 2006 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?

Serenity by Joss Whedon
Battlestar Galactica: "Act of Contrition"/"You Can't Go Home Again"
by Carla Robinson and Bradley Thompson and David Weddle

Both of them. Alas. Serenity is eminently missable but to critique
it I had to see it. I'd like to remind people I was right about
Whedon. 
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