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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalist 2014
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:24:35 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <robertaw-227FDF.10074716122024@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>In article <vjpf24$pvg$1@reader2.panix.com>,
> jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
>
>> 2014: American President Obama's sanctions end the Russian threat forever,
>> Scottish voters resolve to remain tied to the plunging anchor that is 
>> England, and Toronto's Mayor Ford makes Toronto, a Canadian community 
>> home to more than one hundred people, world-famous.
>> 
>> Most importantly, James Nicoll Reviews launched this year. Can you 
>> tell I don't generally review anthologies or magazines unprompted? 
>> 
>> Which 2014 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>> Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
>> A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
>> Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon
>> Hild by Nicola Griffith
>> The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
>> The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
>> The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata
>> We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
>> 
>> Just the Leckie, the Samatar, and the Nagata.
>> 
>
>None (what is a Baen title, not written by Lois McMaster Bujold, doing 
>in this list?)
>
It is my impression Gannon is a personable fellow, which might be 
enough to get his fellow writers look past the terrible covers
his books were no doubt saddled with. 
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