Re: (Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1986

On 2024-06-03, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

The Nebula finalists of 1986! Halley's comet reached perihelion,
Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov began its ongoing submarine
exploration of the Marlborough Sound, and Big Bird was cut from
the crew roster of the Jan 8, 1986 launch of Space Shuttle Columbia.
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Which 1986 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers
Helliconia Winter by Brian W. Aldiss
Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
The Postman by David Brin
The Remaking of Sigmund Freud by Barry N. Malzberg
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All but the Malzberg.

The Card is a strong Favorite, the Bear is quite good, I've read the Powers,
Sterling, and Brin.

Which 1986 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
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Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny
Green Days in Brunei by Bruce Sterling
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Gorgon Field by Kate Wilhelm
The Only Neat Thing to Do by James Tiptree, Jr.
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All but the Zelazny and the Wilhelm.

The Zelazny and Tiptree.

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Which 1986 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
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Portraits of His Children by George R. R. Martin
A Gift from the GrayLanders by Michael Bishop
Dogfight by William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison
Rockabye Baby by S. C. Sykes
The Fringe by Orson Scott Card
The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard
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All but the Bishop.

The Ellison, Card, and Gibson/Swanick
I'm surprised at 3!

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Which 1986 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
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Out of All Them Bright Stars by Nancy Kress
Flying Saucer Rock & Roll by Howard Waldrop
Heirs of the Perisphere by Howard Waldrop
Hong's Bluff by William F. Wu
More Than the Sum of His Parts by Joe Haldeman
Paper Dragons by James P. Blaylock
Snow by John Crowley
The Gods of Mars by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
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All but the Gods of Mars.

None.  Much more the expected number.

Chris