Re: Nebula Finalists 1990

In article <v5uu25$ber$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

In article <v5uq9e$168of$1@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 01/07/2024 09.33, 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.

>
The Card and the Anderson. I didn't much care for it, either, and I
think that I'm probably more of an Anderson fan-boy than you are.
>

Welllll, there's a set of SF authors with whose flaws I am intimately
familiar because I read and reread and reread so much of their stuff
because their virtues outweighed their flaws. Poul Anderson might be
the example whose works I own the most of, because he was so prolific.
A quick glance at ISFDB suggests I have read (and in most cases own)
the following:
 
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Novels
 
    Vault of the Ages (1952)

<SNIP! of a very impressive list>

I also have just about all of those (though are several I haven't yet
read). BTW, I have the mystery _Perish by the Sword_  and the
historicals _Rogue Sword_ and _The Golden Slave_.

 
In fact, one of my first proposals for tor dot com was for me to do
with Anderson what Tarr was doing for Norton.

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