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    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 28 14:09:07 2024
    2007! Serbia, fresh from being found only negligent with respect
    to genocide, wins Eurovision, the IPCC credits humans with a stalwart
    effort to return Earth to the conditions of the PETM, and Canada proves
    it is a world-class nation with its very first domestically-produced
    F5 tornado.

    Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Seeker by Jack McDevitt
    Farthing by Jo Walton
    From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
    The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
    The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
    To Crush the Moon by Wil McCarthy

    All of them.


    Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    Burn by James Patrick Kelly
    Inclination by William Shunn
    Sanctuary by Michael A. Burstein
    The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko

    Just the Kelly and the Melko.


    Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

    Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle
    Journey Into the Kingdom by M. Rickert
    Little Faces by Vonda N. McIntyre
    The Language of Moths by Christopher Barzak
    Walpurgis Afternoon by Delia Sherman

    The Beagle, the McIntyre, and the Sherman.


    Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    Echo by Elizabeth Hand
    An End to All Things by Karina Sumner-Smith
    Helen Remembers The Stork Club by Esther M. Friesner
    Henry James, This One's for You by Jack McDevitt
    Pip and the Fairies by Theodora Goss
    The Woman in Schroedinger's Wave Equations by Eugene Mirabelli

    None of them.


    Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?

    Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and
    Donald H. Hewitt
    Batman Begins by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer
    Battlestar Galactica: Unfinished Business by Michael Taylor
    Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace by Steven Moffat

    All of them.
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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Mon Oct 28 10:22:01 2024
    In article <vfo5u3$p6t$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] (James Nicoll) wrote:

    2007! Serbia, fresh from being found only negligent with respect
    to genocide, wins Eurovision, the IPCC credits humans with a stalwart
    effort to return Earth to the conditions of the PETM, and Canada proves
    it is a world-class nation with its very first domestically-produced
    F5 tornado.


    In case people are wondering, according to Wikipedia seven nations have experienced F5 tornados: United States(59), France(2), Germany(2), Argentina(1), Australia(1), Canada(1), and Italy(1).

    Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Seeker by Jack McDevitt
    Farthing by Jo Walton
    From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
    The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
    The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
    To Crush the Moon by Wil McCarthy

    All of them.

    None (though the Walton is in my unread books mountain)


    Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    Burn by James Patrick Kelly
    Inclination by William Shunn
    Sanctuary by Michael A. Burstein
    The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko

    Just the Kelly and the Melko.


    Since it was in Analog, I should have read the Burstein, but I don't
    remember reading it.


    Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

    Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle
    Journey Into the Kingdom by M. Rickert
    Little Faces by Vonda N. McIntyre
    The Language of Moths by Christopher Barzak
    Walpurgis Afternoon by Delia Sherman

    The Beagle, the McIntyre, and the Sherman.


    None? (the Beagle is also in my unread mountain - for that matter I have
    the magazines that each appeared in).


    Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    Echo by Elizabeth Hand
    An End to All Things by Karina Sumner-Smith
    Helen Remembers The Stork Club by Esther M. Friesner
    Henry James, This One's for You by Jack McDevitt
    Pip and the Fairies by Theodora Goss
    The Woman in Schroedinger's Wave Equations by Eugene Mirabelli

    None of them.

    None?

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  • From Chris Buckley@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Mon Oct 28 17:25:29 2024
    On 2024-10-28, James Nicoll <[email protected]> wrote:
    2007! Serbia, fresh from being found only negligent with respect
    to genocide, wins Eurovision, the IPCC credits humans with a stalwart
    effort to return Earth to the conditions of the PETM, and Canada proves
    it is a world-class nation with its very first domestically-produced
    F5 tornado.

    Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Seeker by Jack McDevitt
    Farthing by Jo Walton
    From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
    The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
    The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
    To Crush the Moon by Wil McCarthy

    All of them.

    The McDevitt, Walton, and Kushner. No Favorites; I probably would rank
    the Walton as the best by a little bit. I was quite disappointed in
    the Kushner; her _Swordspoint_ is a Favorite.

    Before this series of James', I never really thought of McDevitt as
    writing in the style to get Nebula Award attention; I obviously was wrong. Checking now, he was a Nebula Award Novel nominee in 1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2010,2011,2014
    filling in some of those missing years as a shorter work Nebula nominee in 1983,1988,1996,1997,1999,2002
    Clearly very wrong!
    All those nominations, the only win was this thread's year for _Seeker_.

    I read/saw none of the shorter works or films (well, read
    _Howl's Moving Castle_ but that doesn't count here.)

    Chris

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