Re: Nebula Finalists 2008

In article <los5hfFhm3gU1@mid.individual.net>,
Chris Buckley  <alan@sabir.com> wrote:

On 2024-11-04, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

2008! Canadian PM Harper feigns official regret for the residential
school system, billions around the world are heart-broken when the
Large Hadron Collider does not create a mini-black hole and instantly
destroy the Earth, and in the US, the election of the very first Black
President drives tens of millions of white voters completely bat-shit
insane.
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Which 2008 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Odyssey by Jack McDevitt
Ragamuffin by Tobias S. Buckell
The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson
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Only the McDevitt and the Buckell.

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Only the Chabon and the Buckell. The Buckell was quite good (second in
a series that trailed off I thought.)  The Chabon was a more typical
Nebula Award winner - more mainstream and I admired it (or parts of
it) but didn't like it.
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Nothing shorter, nor any of the films.
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I am puzzled by how few of the finalists I read. I guess my shadowy
masters didn't think the finalists were particularly commercial, or
they were snapping them up for themselves.
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