Sujet : Re: (Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1975
De : dtravel (at) *nospam* sonic.net (Dimensional Traveler)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 19. Mar 2024, 01:18:21
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On 3/18/2024 2:49 PM, William Hyde wrote:
James Nicoll wrote:
In article <20240318b@crcomp.net>, Don <g@crcomp.net> 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
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
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_Flow_ was read by me. As you can personally attest, PKD isn't for
everyone. Yet he seems to mostly work for me. Presumably PKD's
partially New Wave, given the appearance of "Faith of Our Fathers"
in _Dangerous Visions_?
Speaking of ambiguous utopia, yesterday a different New Wave
novel was jettisoned by me half way through for failure to follow a
plot, or plotlessness. A leading Lafferty scholar (how many authors
can claim their own personal scholar?) warns as much in his Intro to
Lafferty [1]:
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[big snip]
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I do not get the attraction of Lafferty at all.
I can understand that, in general.
But not even "900 Grandmothers"?
Sounds like someone is going to get loved to death.
-- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.
(Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1975
Re: (Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1975