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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:27:31 -0700
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In article <v9d378$q4o$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> 1996! Dolly the Sheep was cloned, NASA reported that the Allan 
> Hills 84001 meteorite (origin Mars) might contain fossils, and Ariane 
> flight V88 demonstrated the virtue of upgrading one's software.
> 
> Which 1996 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
> 
> The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
> Beggars & Choosers by Nancy Kress
> Calde of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
> Coelestis by Paul Park
> Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams
> Mother of Storms by John Barnes
> 
> Only the Sawyer, the Williams, and the Barnes. I have no idea why 
> anyone would vote for the Sawyer over the Williams. 
> 

Wolfe and Sawyer

> 

As for the shorter works, I don't remember reading any. While I have the 
magazines that most appeared in, I wasn't reading all of them cover to 
cover.

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