Re: Nebula finalists 2007

On 2024-10-28, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

2007! Serbia, fresh from being found only negligent with respect
to genocide, wins Eurovision, the IPCC credits humans with a stalwart
effort to return Earth to the conditions of the PETM, and Canada proves
it is a world-class nation with its very first domestically-produced
F5 tornado.
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Which 2007 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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Seeker by Jack McDevitt
Farthing by Jo Walton
From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
To Crush the Moon by Wil McCarthy
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All of them.

The McDevitt, Walton, and Kushner. No Favorites; I probably would rank
the Walton as the best by a little bit.  I was quite disappointed in
the Kushner; her _Swordspoint_ is a Favorite.

Before this series of James', I never really thought of McDevitt as
writing in the style to get Nebula Award attention; I obviously was wrong.
Checking now, he was a Nebula Award Novel nominee in
1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2010,2011,2014
filling in some of those missing years as a shorter work Nebula nominee in
1983,1988,1996,1997,1999,2002
Clearly very wrong!
All those nominations, the only win was this thread's year for _Seeker_.

I read/saw none of the shorter works or films (well, read
_Howl's Moving Castle_ but that doesn't count here.)

Chris