Re: Nebula Finalists 1985

On 27/05/2024 07.59, James Nicoll wrote:

This week's Nebula finalists reaches the finalists of 1985! 1985 was
a golden age of Wham! songs, the Coen Brothers' first film debuted,
and a plucky David Miller transformed Ontario government. What of
1985's science fiction?
 Which 1985 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
 Neuromancer by William Gibson
Frontera by Lewis Shiner
Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein
The Integral Trees by Larry Niven
The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann
The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson

By cosmic coincidence, I read both _Neuromancer_ and _Job_ in May
of 1993. Gibson no longer darkens my shelves, but I've reread the
Heinlein and may do so again.
I've also read _The Integral Trees_ and its successor, _The Smoke
Ring_. No bad memories of either, but I appear to have eliminated
them as well.
Also the Robinson. I read it and its companion, _The Gold Coast_
in 1993. I now have the third one, _Pacific Edge_ and intend to
read all three in a lump. Some day.

Which 1985 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
 Press Enter by John Varley
A Traveler's Tale by Lucius Shepard
Marrow Death by Michael Swanwick
The Greening of Bed-Stuy by Frederik Pohl
Trinity by Nancy Kress
Young Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson

Only the Varley.
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Michael F. Stemper
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