Re: Nebula Finalists 1990

In article <v5ueok$4eg$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

1990! Commercial internet took the first baby steps towards the
online utopia we now enjoy, Thatcher demonstrated to fellow Tories
who truly enjoyed the Mandate of Heaven, and the world's supply of
Germanies abruptly fell by half.
 
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
 
All but the Yolen. Can't say I really enjoyed the Anderson.
 

Card, Yolen and Anderson

 
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
 
The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold
A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop
A Touch of Lavender by Megan Lindholm
Great Work of Time by John Crowley
Marid Changes His Mind by George Alec Effinger
Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett
 
All but the Lindholm. There is strong correlation between me having
read a story and Dozois having anthologized it.
 

Bujold (don't believe I have read the Lindholm).

 
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
 
At the Rialto by Connie Willis
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another by Robert Silverberg
Fast Cars by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
For I Have Touched the Sky by Mike Resnick
Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man by Megan Lindholm
Sisters by Greg Bear
 
All but the Rusch.
 

Maybe the Lindholm (BTW, years later)

 
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
 
Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis
Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas
Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
The Adinkra Cloth by Mary C. Aldridge
The Ommatidium Miniatures by Michael Bishop
 
Just the first three. I am pretty sure there's no connection between
the Card and the movies of the same name.

Maybe the Landis; I don't think I have read the Card.

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