Re: Nebula Finalists 1992

William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

 
It took me years to get around to reading these two.  Could the rest be
as rewarding?
 

The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

Is pretty good. It's _real_ science fiction ;)

"...Foulke had manoeuvred his way onto the Geographical's Nominations Committee.
Foulke, whose aquatic theory of Brontosaurus had been spurned by Huxley's
Museum, had taken Mallory's arborivore hypothesis as a personal attack, with the
result that an ordinarily pleasant formality had become yet another public trial
for radical Catastrophism.

"...'The man had a bump on the side of his forehead', said Mallory.

"'Frontal plagiocephaly', the boy said.'[...] They're spoony on skulls, in Criminal
Anthropometry...'"