Re: (Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1975

On 3/18/24 5:46 PM, William Hyde wrote:

James Nicoll wrote:

Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
334 by Thomas M. Disch

 Only these, and it took me thirty five years to finish the LeGuin.   I kicked myself when I realized how good it is.
 And twenty years to get the reference in the title of Dick's novel.
 

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

  Just these.
 

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Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
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If the Stars Are Gods by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund

 Only this.
 

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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

 I recall none of them.   I missed a Zelazny?

Maybe "forgot" instead of "missed"? It's in the Zelazny collection "The Last Defender of Camelot", and probably doesn't stand out much, given that this collection also contains "He Who Shapes", "Auto-Da-Fe", "Damnation Alley", "For a Breath I Tarry", and the title story (as well as many others).
It's also pretty short - 7-8 pages. It starts "Let me tell you of the creature called the Bork. It was born in the heart of a dying sun. It was cast forth upon this day from the river of past/future as a piece of time pollution. ..."
Tony