Re: Nebula Finalists 1990

In article <v61l95$1p0q7$1@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 01/07/2024 13.55, 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.
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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
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All but the Yolen. Can't say I really enjoyed the Anderson.

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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.
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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.

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I seem to have not communicated clearly. To me, the term "fanboy"
refers to attitude rather than knowledge. It implies things such
as "adulation", "uncritical acceptance".
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A fanboy wouldn't say something like "X's virtues outweigh his
flaws", but would say "what flaws?"

Is it truely fandom to ignore an aspect of someone's work?

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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Interesting. What was Tarr doing for Norton? At one time, I loved her
work, but now find it a real chore to read.
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Tarr did (and might still be doing) a long running series of reviews
of Norton novels. _I_ received 50 Nortons and barely scratched the
surface.

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