Re: Nebula Finalists 1992

James, I don't think I've read any of these stories.
But I'm going to read Pat Cadigan's _Synners_.
Last Saturday, I looked at a celebratory paperback
reprint of it in Waterstones.  And I looked at some
GoodReads amateur reviews on my phone.  Take that,
twentieth century!  :-)
And the reviews weren't favourable... but yours,
of 2022, is.
<https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/thats-what-i-want>
You noted then that other reviews found, and
you agreed, that the story has a bewildering horde
of characters, and it takes a good while for a story
to come into view.  ;-)  And a lot of actual
21st century technology isn't in the story world -
which the casual GoodReads reviewers were turned
off by.
And in 2024, Elon Musk apparently is going to make
his anti-woke brain implants in lightly regulated
Texas now.  Just as soon as the summer power
outages end, I suppose.  But of course, he has
batteries.