Nebula Finalists 1984

This week in Which Nebula Finalists Have You Read?: 1984! The year in
which Brian Mulroney won a 211-seat majority, the Americans presumably
held some sort of federal election, and the UK was organizing funds for
overseas famine relief rather than doing their best to ensure famines
at home!

Note: if you've read Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction, First
Annual Collection, you've read a lot of the shorter pieces.

Which 1984 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

Startide Rising by David Brin
Against Infinity by Gregory Benford
Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance
Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy
The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
The Void Captain's Tale by Norman Spinrad

All but the Vance. I own the roleplaying game, though. I own a lot of
RPGs based on various Vance settings.

Which 1984 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

Hardfought by Greg Bear
Eszterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention by Avram Davidson
Her Habiline Husband by Michael Bishop
Homefaring by Robert Silverberg
The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis (or, the Astrogator's
 Testimony) by Michael Bishop
Transit by Vonda N. McIntyre

The Bear, the Bishop (as part of a fix-up), the Silverberg, and
the McIntytre (also as part of a fix-up).

Which 1984 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

Blood Music by Greg Bear
Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson
Blind Shemmy by Jack Dann
Cicada Queen by Bruce Sterling
Slow Birds by Ian Watson
The Monkey Treatment by George R. R. Martin
The Sidon in the Mirror by Connie Willis

All of them and not just because of Dozois.

Which 1984 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

The Peacemaker by Gardner Dozois
Cryptic by Jack McDevitt
Ghost Town by Chad Oliver
Her Furry Face by Leigh Kennedy
The Geometry of Narrative by Hilbert Schenck
Wong's Lost and Found Emporium by William F. Wu

The Dozois, the McDevitt, and the Kennedy.


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