Re: Nebula Finalists 1990

On 2024-07-01, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> 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.

This is last week's; I missed it then evidently.

Read all. Didn't like the Anderson and thought I should like the Kessel,
but it just didn't work for me.

Probably the Yolen is the best of the bunch, though not a Favorite.
James, you would appreciate much of the Yolen, including the far-future
anthropological history excerpts looking back on the actions of the story,
trying to interpret the evidence into a patriarchal framework when it
is decidedly not.

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Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
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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
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All but the Lindholm. There is strong correlation between me having
read a story and Dozois having anthologized it.

Only the Bujold, though I would like to read the Crowley and the Effinger
(The Marid Audran series is a Favorite).

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Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
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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
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All but the Rusch.

None

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Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
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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
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Just the first three. I am pretty sure there's no connection between
the Card and the movies of the same name.

None

Chris