Re: Nebula Finalists 1982

In article <141c5jh8oj4gftt9js8b3n3h4srb73i36i@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 27 May 2024 15:39:16 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 27/05/2024 11.33, Robert Carnegie wrote:

On 07/05/2024 14:03, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 06/05/2024 08.52, James Nicoll wrote:

Another round of Nebula finalists, this time from the 1982 awards.
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Which 1982 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
Little, Big by John Crowley
Radix by A. A. Attanasio
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Many-Colored Land by Julian May
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas

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This seems to have been a bad year for my tastes.
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I read the Wolfe, along with the rest of that trilogy. Then, I
sold them back.
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Ditto the May (give or take it being part of a quadrology).
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I got maybe fifty pages into the Crowley and sold it back.

=20
You can do that?=A0 (Did we cover this before...)

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I think that there was a lengthy discussion along the lines of "Do
you have to finish every book you start?" I don't think that I
ever participated in it, but now you know where I stand on the
issue.

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I think he may have been asking about selling books back after reading
them.

Sure, you can do that but you cannot sell them back UNTIL you have read
them because... maybe you'll change your mind and want to see how they end.
--scott

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