Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: davidd02@tpg.com.au (David Duffy) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1992 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 04:09:59 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:09:59 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4d3f1f8e38c5f8fea0bb132b7e34f0e2"; logging-data="1182995"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/6OKLFggQLIzFzQESuc087hYvBaNIZanw=" User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20220130 ("Convalmore") (Linux/5.15.0-113-generic (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:107YVd2vAPCOWCgvYY59d2LERZ0= Bytes: 1678 William Hyde wrote: > > It took me years to get around to reading these two. Could the rest be > as rewarding? > >> The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Is pretty good. It's _real_ science fiction ;) "...Foulke had manoeuvred his way onto the Geographical's Nominations Committee. Foulke, whose aquatic theory of Brontosaurus had been spurned by Huxley's Museum, had taken Mallory's arborivore hypothesis as a personal attack, with the result that an ordinarily pleasant formality had become yet another public trial for radical Catastrophism. "...'The man had a bump on the side of his forehead', said Mallory. "'Frontal plagiocephaly', the boy said.'[...] They're spoony on skulls, in Criminal Anthropometry...'"