Re: (Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1981

On 6/6/2024 4:34 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:

On 29/04/2024 22:18, Chris Buckley wrote:

On 2024-04-29, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

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.
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(Also, was never an F&SF fan for some reason)
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Which 1981 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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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
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All but the Tevis.

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A good year.  The Wolfe is one of my absolute top Favorites, and the Vinge and
Benford are Favorites.  The Pohl is good (sequel to _Gateway_, a Favorite.)
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I would have said I read the Tevis, but this was a time when I bought
anything I read, and the only Tevis I have on my bookshelves is the
much earlier _The Man Who Fell to Earth_ (a much better movie than book IMO.)

 _The Man Who Fell to Earth_, BBC radio recently
put on a one hour adaptation - as of June 6th
it says, "4 days left to listen" meaning here.
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z63w>
It may come back.

Thanks! Listened and saved. I haven't read the book, but did see
the David Bowie film. From the closeness of this to the film, I
suspect they are both pretty faithful adaptions.
One thing that stands out is how many of the inventions that
Tevis predicts in his 1963 book have come to pass.
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