Re: Nebula Finalists 1988

On 2024-06-17, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

1988! Osama Bin founds a social group, dynamic Dukakis faces off against
boring establishment man Bush, and the Soviet Union embraces sweeping
reforms that will ensure its immortality.
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Which 1988 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
The Forge of God by Greg Bear
The Uplift War by David Brin
Vergil in Averno by Avram Davidson
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
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All but the Davidson. I am very poorly read in Davidson.

Also, all but the Davidson. I would have also said I hadn't read much by
him but when I checked, I had 12 novels on my shelves! (I remember only
one from the titles, _Joyleg_)

The Brin and Effinger are Favorites. The Wolfe was ... memorable, but I've
never re-read it.

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Which 1988 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
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The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson
Fugue State by John M. Ford
The Secret Sharer by Robert Silverberg
The Tiger Sweater by Keith Roberts
The Unconquered Country by Geoff Ryman
Witness by Walter Jon Williams
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Only the WJW. I have a feeling my hit rate will take a sharp plunge after
this year.

The WJW and the Ryman (the Ryman in some form; I'm not sure in this form.)

Which 1988 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
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Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dream Baby by Bruce McAllister
Flowers of Edo by Bruce Sterling
Schwarzschild Radius by Connie Willis
The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler
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All of them.

Just the LeGuin

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Which 1987 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
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Forever Yours, Anna by Kate Wilhelm
Angel by Pat Cadigan
Cassandra's Photographs by Lisa Goldstein
Kid Charlemagne by Paul Di Filippo
Temple to a Minor Goddess by Susan Shwartz
The Faithful Companion at Forty by Karen Joy Fowler
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers by Lawrence Watt-Evans
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The Wilhelm, the Cadigan, the Fowler, and the Watt-Evans.

None

Chris