1971 Nebula Finalist Novels
Ringworld by Larry Niven
And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ
Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker
Fourth Mansions by R. A. Lafferty
The Steel Crocodile by D. G. Compton
1971 Nebula Finalist Novellas
Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
The Thing in the Stone by Clifford D. Simak
The Region Between by Harlan Ellison
April Fools' Day Forever by Kate Wilhelm
The Fatal Fulfillment by Poul Anderson
A Style in Treason by James Blish
1971 Nebula Finalist Novelettes
Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon
Continued on Next Rock by R. A. Lafferty
The Asian Shore by Thomas M. Disch
The Shaker Revival by Gerald Jonas
The Second Inquisition by Joanna Russ
Dear Aunt Annie by Gordon Eklund
1971 Nebula Finalist Short Stories
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe
Entire and Perfect Chrysolite by R. A. Lafferty
In the Queue by Keith Laumer
By the Falls by Harry Harrison
The Creation of Bennie Good by James Sallis
A Dream at Noonday by Gardner Dozois
A Cold Dark Night with Snow by Kate Wilhelm
On 2024-02-19, James Nicoll <[email protected]> wrote:
1971 Nebula Finalist Novels
Ringworld by Larry Niven
And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ
Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker
Fourth Mansions by R. A. Lafferty
The Steel Crocodile by D. G. Compton
Read all. Ringworld is the only one on the Favorite's bookcase, though I >liked the Russ and Silverberg.
1971 Nebula Finalist Novellas
Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
The Thing in the Stone by Clifford D. Simak
The Region Between by Harlan Ellison
April Fools' Day Forever by Kate Wilhelm
The Fatal Fulfillment by Poul Anderson
A Style in Treason by James Blish
Read all but the Blish. The Ellison and Anderson were both in _Five Fates_ >which is on my Favorite's bookcase. This is perhaps the major success, IMO, >of "all original works based on a common prologue". I thought all five of the >stories were very good and very different.
1971 Nebula Finalist Novelettes
Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon
Continued on Next Rock by R. A. Lafferty
The Asian Shore by Thomas M. Disch
The Shaker Revival by Gerald Jonas
The Second Inquisition by Joanna Russ
Dear Aunt Annie by Gordon Eklund
Just the Sturgeon, I think.
1971 Nebula Finalist Short Stories
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe
Entire and Perfect Chrysolite by R. A. Lafferty
In the Queue by Keith Laumer
By the Falls by Harry Harrison
The Creation of Bennie Good by James Sallis
A Dream at Noonday by Gardner Dozois
A Cold Dark Night with Snow by Kate Wilhelm
Just the Wolfe
The grognards look utterly absurd now. Gene Wolfe remains one of the
giants of the field, while they are always the people who ... did that.
At least they could have voted for Laumer. Not a lot of spaceships and blasters in that story, but he had plenty in other work.
This was the height of the War of the New Wave, and passions
between the New Wave camp and the conservative Old Guard camp
were running high. (The same year, Michael Moorcock said in a
review that the only way SFWA could have found a worse thing
than RINGWORLD to give the Nebula to was to give it to a comic
book). The fact that the short story ballot was almost
completely made up of stuff from ORBIT had outraged the Old
Guard, particularly James Sallis’s surreal “The Creation of
Benny Hill”, and they block-voted for No Award as a protest
against “non-functional word patterns” making the ballot.
Judy-Lynn del Rey told me as much immediately after the
banquet, when she was exuberantly gloating about how they’d
“put ORBIT in its place” with the voting results, and
actually said “We won!”
On 2/19/2024 5:18 PM, William Hyde wrote:
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The grognards look utterly absurd now. Gene Wolfe remains one of the
giants of the field, while they are always the people who ... did that.
At least they could have voted for Laumer. Not a lot of spaceships and
blasters in that story, but he had plenty in other work.
Apparently it was James Sallis’s “The Creation of Benny Hill” that >particularly infuriated them. Here is what Gardner Dozois once wrote >(https://www.tor.com/2011/02/20/hugo-nominees-1971/comment-page-1/#comment-166772)
about the episode:
This was the height of the War of the New Wave, and passions
between the New Wave camp and the conservative Old Guard camp
were running high. (The same year, Michael Moorcock said in a
review that the only way SFWA could have found a worse thing
than RINGWORLD to give the Nebula to was to give it to a comic
book). The fact that the short story ballot was almost
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