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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2011
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:44:59 -0600
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On 11/25/2024 4:35 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 11/25/2024 8:52 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> 2011! Revolutions across the Middle signal the inevitable rise of 
>> democracy,
>> the American space shuttle makes its final landing, and some really quite
>> fuck-awful SF won awards in this, the annus horriblis of speculative
>> fiction.
>>
>> Which 2011 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>>
>> Blackout / All Clear by Connie Willis
>> Echo by Jack McDevitt
>> Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
>> The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
>> The Native Star by M. K. Hobson
>> Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
>>
>> I have read all of them. The Willis would be the worst piece on this
>> list if not for another work
> ...
> 
> I have read "Blackout" and "Echo".
> 
> Lynn

Both quite good.  "Blackout" is about people traveling back in time to 
WWII and the risks thereof.  "Echo" is another chapter in the Alex 
Benedict story of looking for alien artifacts in a post diaspora time 
where space travel via high FTL space ships is quite common.

Lynn