Re: Nebula finalists 1991

In article <v6grjb$qaq$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

1991: The abrupt collapse of one of the two military alliances dominating
Europe promised eternal peace on that troubled continent, after some delay
Otzi the Iceman completed his journey, and the world's supply of both
Soviet Unions and Yugoslavias fell to zero.
 
Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
 
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
Redshift Rendezvous by John E. Stith
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
White Jenna by Jane Yolen
 
All but the Martin, which despite it being turned in a movie I've
never heard of.
 

Le Guin, Stith, and Yolen

 
Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
 
The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
Bones by Pat Murphy
Fool to Believe by Pat Cadigan
Mr. Boy by James Patrick Kelly
Weatherman by Lois McMaster Bujold
 
All but the Cadigan. To this day, I don't understand the fuss over
the Haldeman.
 

Only the Bujold

 
Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
 
Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
1/72nd Scale by Ian R. MacLeod
A Time for Every Purpose by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Loose Cannon by Susan Shwartz
Over the Long Haul by Martha Soukup
The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk
by Dafydd ab Hugh
The Manamouki by Mike Resnick
The Shobies' Story by Ursula K. Le Guin
 
No, I don't know why the number of finalists is so variable. Didn't
read the MacLeod or the Rusch. Otherwise, I have read them all.
The ab Hugh crammed a lot of right-wing tropes into a fairly
short story so it's no surprise he later became a far right
pundit.
 

None? BTW, ab Hugh being a far right pundit, the wikipedia article on
him doesn't mention that; are you confusing him with the David Friedman
who is the son of Milton Friedman (and is 15 years older than "ab Hugh").

 
Which 1991 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
 
Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
Before I Wake by Kim Stanley Robinson
Lieserl by Karen Joy Fowler
Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates by Pat Murphy
Story Child by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Power and the Passion by Pat Cadigan
 
Missed the Rusch--no surprise as I am poorly read in Rusch--but
also the Fowler, somehow. Otherwise, read them all.

None?

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