Re: Nebula Finalists 1997

On 8/29/24 5:00 PM, William Hyde wrote:

James Nicoll wrote:

1997: Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State
of the United States, signalling the end of sexism in that nation,
Katrina and the Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, signalling
the beginning of an era of British domination of Eurovision that would
last until 1998, and the Kyoto Protocol is signed, signalling the end
of global warming.
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Which 1997 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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Slow River by Nicola Griffith
Expiration Date by Tim Powers
Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Silent Strength of Stones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip
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Badly as I have fallen behind in reading the SF novels of the past generation, it seems I have done even worse at shorter lengths.
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Could people suggest some of their favourite anthologies of short fiction written since 1990?
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Or any time, really, but post-1990 is the era I am least familiar with.
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 I have read very few multi-author anthologies that are (mostly) populated by post-1990 short stories. Of the few I have read, here are two that were pretty good:
 1) The Good New Stuff (ed. Dozois), second half of the awesome SFBC volume The Good Stuff. Note that only 11 of the 17 stories in TGNS are from the 1990s.
 The full SFBC volume:  https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?165311
Just TGNS:   https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?305276
  2) Songs of the Dying Earth (a tribute to Jack Vance)
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?332735
  Note: 3 of the 4 entries in "The New Hugo Winners" series were published in 1992 or later. (And the first was published in 1989.)
  If single-author collections might work, I would also recommend:
Axiomatic - Greg Egan
Side Jobs - Jim Butcher (all Dresden universe)
The Robot's Twilight Companion - Tony Daniel
Crosstime Traffic - Lawrence Watt-Evans (11 out of 19)
Tales of Ethshar - Lawrence Watt-Evans
  And one that technically doesn't count:
State of the Art - Banks (half Culture, half not; published in 1991, but the stories are from 1987-1989, unless you find an edition with the essay "A Few Notes on the Culture", which he had Ken MacLeod post here in rasfw)