Re: (Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1975

On 19/03/24 10:49, 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"?
 

I haven't finished a Lafferty novel and although I do not read many
short stories, many of Lafferty's short stories are brilliantly clever.
I don't like ghost stories, my favourites of his being con men tales
where the con man can be anything from a woman to a supernatural being.
If I read three in a row, the first is forgotten before the third is
finished!

I enjoy PK Dick and Flow My Tears which was a little confusing. In your
other post were you referring to the 'song"?