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From: "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2018
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:09:34 -0000 (UTC)
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Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
> > In article <vmpvq1$pns8$2@dont-email.me>,
> > "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Robert Woodward wrote:
> >> 
> >> > AFACT, I have read none of the finalists
> >> If I could recommend any to you, it would be All Systems Red. 
> > 
> > I have seen many words of praise for that series, but I have
> > hundreds of unread books and I am reluctant to start another series.
> 
> Don't read the series.  Read the first book, maybe the first three
> books, and stop there.  The first book is amazing but after a while
> there just isn't any point.

The first four novellas form a cohesive story. All Systems Red is only
176 pages in hardback, so most readers could probably knock it off in
one or two nights.


Brian