Re: (Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1975

On 2024-03-18, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
334 by Thomas M. Disch
The Godwhale by T. J. Bass
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I've read the Le Guin and the Bass, although I was aware of the other two.

Read all.  _The Dispossessed_ is the only Favorite; the others
aren't close (I'm surprised the Bass is a Nebula nominee).

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Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
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Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg
A Song for Lya by George R. R. Martin
On the Street of the Serpents or, The Assassination of Chairman Mao, As Effected by the Author in Seville, Spain, in the Spring of 1992, a Year of No Certain Historicity by Michael Bishop
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All of them.

Not the Bishop - the other two are quite good.

Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
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If the Stars Are Gods by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund
The Rest Is Silence by Charles L. Grant
Twilla by Tom Reamy
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The first and the last. I am not well read in Grant's work.

Likewise, though I'm not positive I read "If the Stars Are Gods" in novelette
form - I remember the novel.

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Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
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The Day Before the Revolution by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Engine at Heartspring's Center by Roger Zelazny
After King Kong Fell by Philip Jose Farmer
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The Le Guin and the Zelazny.

Just the Le Guin. I like Zelazny short stories but don't have the
collection this one was in.

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Which 1975 Nebula Dramatic Presentation Have You Seen?
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Sleeper by Woody Allen
Frankenstein: The True Story by Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood
The Fantastic Planet by Steve Hayes and Rene Laloux and Roland Topor
and Stefan Wul
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Only the Woody Allen. All I remember is the scene with the VW Beetle.
I've never heard of the other two film. I don't know why this
category existed at this time.

Only the Allen

Chris