(Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1981

This week's Which Nebula Finalists Have You Read features 1981. I remember
it as a good year for SF but it's obvious I'd stopped following magazines
as voraciously as I did in the 1970s.

(Also, was never an F&SF fan for some reason)

Which 1981 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

Timescape by Gregory Benford
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
The Orphan by Robert Stallman
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

All but the Tevis.

Which 1981 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
Dangerous Games by Marta Randall
Lost Dorsai by Gordon R. Dickson
The Autopsy by Michael Shea
The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch
There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than
Me by Avram Davidson

Only the Charnas (in a fix-up) and the Dickson.

Which 1981 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop
Beatnik Bayou by John Varley
Ginungagap by Michael Swanwick
Strata by Edward Bryant
The Feast of Saint Janis by Michael Swanwick
The Way Station by Stephen King

Oddly, all of them. Albeit, I read the Swanwicks over a decade later.

Which 1981 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

Grotto of the Dancing Deer by Clifford D. Simak
Secrets of the Heart by Charles L. Grant
The War Beneath the Tree by Gene Wolfe
Window by Bob Leman

Just the Simak and the Wolfe. I'm surprisingly well read in Wolfe,
given that I don't think of myself as a Wolfe reader.
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