Re: Nebula Finalists 2015

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 12/23/2024 2:53 PM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 23 Dec 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

On 12/23/2024 8:36 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

2015: New Horizons flies by dwarf planet Pluto before prudently continuing
its flight away from Earth, the settler nations of the New World enjoyed
public health successes of a sort that would soon become myth, and Canada
elected Justin Trudeau Prime Minister, in the hope this would cause him
to start wearing shirts in public.
 Which 2015 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
Coming Home by Jack McDevitt
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Trial by Fire by Charles E. Gannon
 Just the Leckie, the Addison, and the Liu.

 I have read and reviewed "Ancillary Sword", "Coming Home", and "Trial By Fire".  I have watched the "Annihilation" movie twice for its weirdness.
 I have tried to read "The Three-Body Problem" twice now and bounced both times (DNF).  You know, I have over 200 books that I have bounced off of in my SBR.  I am thinking about taking them to the Half Price Books over in Sugar Land.  Maybe I should mail them to James.
 Lynn

 Why didn't you like it?

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The China Cultural Revolution torture and murder scenes really bothered me. I had a really smart friend in college who was a nephew of the Shah of Iran. When Iran fell to islamic crazies in 1979, they killed several of his friends and relatives.  Iran figured out that he was studying Mechanical Engineering at TAMU (we had several classes and a study group together) and sent him a letter in Farsi telling him that his payments were stopping and that he had to come home.  He figured that he would be shot at the airport within five minutes of landing.  He did not show up for our senior year so I have no idea what happened to him.

Sad story. =( I can understand how that left a bad taste in your mouth. Iranians are ninjas! They make much, much better immigrants than arabians! Very beautiful women too!

Lynn
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