Re: Nebula Finalists 1982

On 27/05/2024 11.33, Robert Carnegie wrote:

On 07/05/2024 14:03, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 06/05/2024 08.52, James Nicoll wrote:

Another round of Nebula finalists, this time from the 1982 awards.
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Which 1982 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
Little, Big by John Crowley
Radix by A. A. Attanasio
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Many-Colored Land by Julian May
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas

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This seems to have been a bad year for my tastes.
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I read the Wolfe, along with the rest of that trilogy. Then, I
sold them back.
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Ditto the May (give or take it being part of a quadrology).
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I got maybe fifty pages into the Crowley and sold it back.

 You can do that?  (Did we cover this before...)

I think that there was a lengthy discussion along the lines of "Do
you have to finish every book you start?" I don't think that I
ever participated in it, but now you know where I stand on the
issue.
--
Michael F. Stemper
If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much
more like prunes than rhubarb does.