• Nebula finalists 1991

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 8 14:03:23 2024
    1991: The abrupt collapse of one of the two military alliances dominating Europe promised eternal peace on that troubled continent, after some delay
    Otzi the Iceman completed his journey, and the world's supply of both
    Soviet Unions and Yugoslavias fell to zero.

    Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
    Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
    Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
    Redshift Rendezvous by John E. Stith
    The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
    White Jenna by Jane Yolen

    All but the Martin, which despite it being turned in a movie I've
    never heard of.


    Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
    Bones by Pat Murphy
    Fool to Believe by Pat Cadigan
    Mr. Boy by James Patrick Kelly
    Weatherman by Lois McMaster Bujold

    All but the Cadigan. To this day, I don't understand the fuss over
    the Haldeman.


    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.


    Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
    Before I Wake by Kim Stanley Robinson
    Lieserl by Karen Joy Fowler
    Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates by Pat Murphy
    Story Child by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
    The Power and the Passion by Pat Cadigan

    Missed the Rusch--no surprise as I am poorly read in Rusch--but
    also the Fowler, somehow. Otherwise, read them all.
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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Mon Jul 8 09:55:54 2024
    In article <v6grjb$qaq$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] (James Nicoll) wrote:

    1991: The abrupt collapse of one of the two military alliances dominating Europe promised eternal peace on that troubled continent, after some delay Otzi the Iceman completed his journey, and the world's supply of both
    Soviet Unions and Yugoslavias fell to zero.

    Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
    Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
    Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
    Redshift Rendezvous by John E. Stith
    The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
    White Jenna by Jane Yolen

    All but the Martin, which despite it being turned in a movie I've
    never heard of.


    Le Guin, Stith, and Yolen


    Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
    Bones by Pat Murphy
    Fool to Believe by Pat Cadigan
    Mr. Boy by James Patrick Kelly
    Weatherman by Lois McMaster Bujold

    All but the Cadigan. To this day, I don't understand the fuss over
    the Haldeman.


    Only the Bujold


    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").


    Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
    Before I Wake by Kim Stanley Robinson
    Lieserl by Karen Joy Fowler
    Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates by Pat Murphy
    Story Child by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
    The Power and the Passion by Pat Cadigan

    Missed the Rusch--no surprise as I am poorly read in Rusch--but
    also the Fowler, somehow. Otherwise, read them all.

    None?

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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jul 8 17:07:22 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Robert Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <v6grjb$qaq$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] (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 also can distinguish between Joel Rosenbergs.


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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Tue Jul 9 09:48:09 2024
    In article <v6h6ca$1fn$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] (James Nicoll) wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Robert Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <v6grjb$qaq$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] (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.

    --
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    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. �-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward [email protected]

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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Jul 9 17:53:14 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Robert Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <v6h6ca$1fn$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] (James Nicoll) wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Robert Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <v6grjb$qaq$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] (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.
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  • From Chris Buckley@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Wed Jul 10 00:48:23 2024
    On 2024-07-08, James Nicoll <[email protected]> wrote:
    1991: The abrupt collapse of one of the two military alliances dominating Europe promised eternal peace on that troubled continent, after some delay Otzi the Iceman completed his journey, and the world's supply of both
    Soviet Unions and Yugoslavias fell to zero.

    Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
    Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
    Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
    Redshift Rendezvous by John E. Stith
    The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
    White Jenna by Jane Yolen

    All but the Martin, which despite it being turned in a movie I've
    never heard of.

    I also only missed the Martin. No Favorites, though the Simmons
    is close (_Hyperion_ itself is a Favorite).

    James, you read the second book of the Yolen trilogy, but not the first (nominated for 1990)???


    Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
    Bones by Pat Murphy
    Fool to Believe by Pat Cadigan
    Mr. Boy by James Patrick Kelly
    Weatherman by Lois McMaster Bujold

    All but the Cadigan. To this day, I don't understand the fuss over
    the Haldeman.

    None


    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


    Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
    Before I Wake by Kim Stanley Robinson
    Lieserl by Karen Joy Fowler
    Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates by Pat Murphy
    Story Child by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
    The Power and the Passion by Pat Cadigan

    Missed the Rusch--no surprise as I am poorly read in Rusch--but
    also the Fowler, somehow. Otherwise, read them all.

    The Bisson.

    Chris

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