Re: Nebula Finalists 1982

On Wed, 29 May 2024 15:45:13 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 28/05/2024 11.22, Paul S Person wrote:

On Mon, 27 May 2024 15:39:16 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
 

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.

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

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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.

 
I think he may have been asking about selling books back after reading
them.

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What about selling them back after not reading them?
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Of course, paper copies can be sold to used-book stores, but I
wouldn't think that would be "selling them back".

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Why not?

Becaise the impression I got was that he had purchased them /new/. And
so not at a used-book store.
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