Re: Nebula Finalists 2008

On 11/4/24 06:10, James Nicoll 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.
  Which 2008 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
 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
 Only the McDevitt and the Buckell.
 

The Chabon is the only one of the stories I have
read. I was not buying SF magazines due to poverty.

 Which 2008 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
 Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress
Awakening by Judith Berman
Kiosk by Bruce Sterling
Memorare by Gene Wolfe
Stars Seen Through Stone by Lucius Shepard
The Helper and His Hero by Matthew Hughes
 Just the Sterling.
  Which 2008 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
 The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang
Child, Maiden, Woman, Crone by Terry Bramlett
Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) by Geoff Ryman
Safeguard by Nancy Kress
The Children's Crusade by Robin Wayne Bailey
The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After
the Change by Kij Johnson
The Fiddler of Bayou Teche by Delia Sherman
 Only the Chiang.
  Which 2008 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
 Always by Karen Joy Fowler
Captive Girl by Jennifer Pelland
Pride by Mary A. Turzillo
The Story of Love by Vera Nazarian
Titanium Mike Saves the Day by David D. Levine
Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse by Andy Duncan
 Only the Turzillo.
  Which 2008 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?
 Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
Children of Men by Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark
Fergus, and Hawk Ostby
Doctor Who: Blink by Steven Moffat
Star Trek: New Voyages: World Enough and Time by Marc Scott Zicree and Michael Reaves
 Just Children and Blink.
 Huh. Was I even reading SFF this year?

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There is a lot to read. I only bought SF Magazines during the Covid restriction time. Then in 2021 the shop where I bought them
went out of business. Not so many comprehensived news shops left in
San Franciscio. The reason I bought them was simply because the
SFPL was closed for quite a while. I really like to read and gave
up some other items on my lists for that time.
It wasn't like there was much you could do with the money at the time.
bliss