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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2011
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:04:30 -0800
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On 11/25/24 16:44, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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
> 
	I am quite sure that I too have read the "Blackout" story
and yes I too found it interesting.

	bliss