Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Default User" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2018 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:09:34 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 08:09:35 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c9c5a02993a771fbed17de16553dd519"; logging-data="1612520"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18iXYz1XfhGM6Y2L6eEhYeK8CpuEBwI5/8=" User-Agent: XanaNews/1.19.1.320 Cancel-Lock: sha1:9PDptsbdAuE7NcJAGjEHSw6k6c0= Bytes: 1937 Scott Dorsey wrote: > Robert Woodward wrote: > > In article , > > "Default User" 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