Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 1991 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 17:53:14 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 17:53:14 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="22362"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3422 Lines: 61 In article , Robert Woodward wrote: >In article , > jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote: > >> In article , >> Robert Woodward wrote: >> >In article , >> > jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote: >> >> snippity do dah snippity ay >> >> >> >> Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read? >> >> >> >> Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang >> >> 1/72nd Scale by Ian R. MacLeod >> >> A Time for Every Purpose by Kristine Kathryn Rusch >> >> Loose Cannon by Susan Shwartz >> >> Over the Long Haul by Martha Soukup >> >> The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. >> >> Skunk >> >> by Dafydd ab Hugh >> >> The Manamouki by Mike Resnick >> >> The Shobies' Story by Ursula K. Le Guin >> >> >> >> No, I don't know why the number of finalists is so variable. Didn't >> >> read the MacLeod or the Rusch. Otherwise, I have read them all. >> >> The ab Hugh crammed a lot of right-wing tropes into a fairly >> >> short story so it's no surprise he later became a far right >> >> pundit. >> >> >> > >> >None? BTW, ab Hugh being a far right pundit, the wikipedia article on >> >him doesn't mention that; are you confusing him with the David Friedman >> >who is the son of Milton Friedman (and is 15 years older than "ab Hugh"). >> >> Nope! >> >> https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008683.html >> > >I wonder how long he was a pundit; I searched for his name on Google and >found many mentions of books of his, but nothing else before I gave up. > >> I also can distinguish between Joel Rosenbergs. > >Two Joel Rosenbergs? ... I had never heard of Joel C. Rosenberg; thank >you very much destroying my innocence. > Joel is a common name and Rosenberg isn't exactly unique so I expect there are a lot of Joel Rosenbergs out there. Once during a tabletop roleplaying game campaign, I named a Surete du Quebec character by adding the most common male given name in Quebec to the most common surname in Quebec. If I'd bothered to drop the result into a search engine, I would have seen that that was the name of the current head of the Surete du Quebec. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll