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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 2015
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:49:01 -0600
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On 12/23/2024 2:53 PM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 
>> On 12/23/2024 8:36 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> 2015: New Horizons flies by dwarf planet Pluto before prudently 
>>> continuing
>>> its flight away from Earth, the settler nations of the New World enjoyed
>>> public health successes of a sort that would soon become myth, and 
>>> Canada
>>> elected Justin Trudeau Prime Minister, in the hope this would cause him
>>> to start wearing shirts in public.
>>>
>>> Which 2015 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>>> Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
>>> Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
>>> Coming Home by Jack McDevitt
>>> The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
>>> The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
>>> Trial by Fire by Charles E. Gannon
>>>
>>> Just the Leckie, the Addison, and the Liu.
>>
>> I have read and reviewed "Ancillary Sword", "Coming Home", and "Trial 
>> By Fire".  I have watched the "Annihilation" movie twice for its 
>> weirdness.
>>
>> I have tried to read "The Three-Body Problem" twice now and bounced 
>> both times (DNF).  You know, I have over 200 books that I have bounced 
>> off of in my SBR.  I am thinking about taking them to the Half Price 
>> Books over in Sugar Land.  Maybe I should mail them to James.
>>
>> Lynn
> 
> Why didn't you like it?

The China Cultural Revolution torture and murder scenes really bothered 
me.  I had a really smart friend in college who was a nephew of the Shah 
of Iran.  When Iran fell to islamic crazies in 1979, they killed several 
of his friends and relatives.  Iran figured out that he was studying 
Mechanical Engineering at TAMU (we had several classes and a study group 
together) and sent him a letter in Farsi telling him that his payments 
were stopping and that he had to come home.  He figured that he would be 
shot at the airport within five minutes of landing.  He did not show up 
for our senior year so I have no idea what happened to him.

Lynn