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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1989
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:42:12 -0700
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In article <v5bu65$5bt$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> 1989! Tim Berners-Lee lays the foundations for the World Wide Web,
> Communism has an unshakable grasp on the Warsaw Bloc, and Pons and 
> Fleischmann free the world from energy shortages forever.
> 
> Which 1989 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
> Deserted Cities of the Heart by Lewis Shiner
> Drowning Towers by George Turner
> Great Sky River by Gregory Benford
> Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
> Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card
> The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
> 
> I have read all of them. Note that Drowning Towers also appeared as The
> Sea and Summer (which is the version I have).
> 

Bujold, Card, and Wolfe

> 
> Which 1989 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
> 
> The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis
> Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad
> Surfacing by Walter Jon Williams
> The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians by Bradley Denton
> The Devil's Arithmetic (Excerpt) by Jane Yolen
> The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter by Lucius Shepard
> 
> All but the Denton and the Yolen.
>  

Maybe the Shepard.

> 
> Which 1989 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
> 
> Schroedinger's Kitten by George Alec Effinger
> Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? by Howard Waldrop
> Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus by Neal Barrett, Jr.
> Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick
> Peaches for Mad Molly by Steven Gould
> The Hob by Judith Moffett
> Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh by Ian McDonald
> 
> All but the McDonald.
> 

None (which will be repeated in many of the subsequent years in more 
than one category)

> 
> Which 1989 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
> 
> Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge by James Morrow
> Dead Men on TV by Pat Murphy
> Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner by John Kessel
> The Color Winter by Steven Popkes
> The Fort Moxie Branch by Jack McDevitt
> Voices of the Kill by Thomas M. Disch
> 
> All but the Morrow (!) aand the Popkes. As far as I can tell, the 
> Popkes was never reprinted.

None.

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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