Re: (Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1981

On 29/04/2024 09.07, James Nicoll wrote:

This week's Which Nebula Finalists Have You Read features 1981. I remember
it as a good year for SF but it's obvious I'd stopped following magazines
as voraciously as I did in the 1970s.
 (Also, was never an F&SF fan for some reason)
 Which 1981 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
 Timescape by Gregory Benford
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
The Orphan by Robert Stallman
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge> All but the Tevis.

For me, all but Tevis or Stallman. I'm surprised that I'm that current,
although the Vinge is the only one that I read in the second millennium.

Which 1981 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
 Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
Dangerous Games by Marta Randall
Lost Dorsai by Gordon R. Dickson
The Autopsy by Michael Shea
The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch
There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than
Me by Avram Davidson

Only the Dickson. I didn't realize that it was a novella, but looking
at my shelves, I see that my copy was one of the Ace MMPBs padded out
with "over 50 illustrations".

Which 1981 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
 The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop
Beatnik Bayou by John Varley
Ginungagap by Michael Swanwick
Strata by Edward Bryant
The Feast of Saint Janis by Michael Swanwick
The Way Station by Stephen King

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Michael F. Stemper
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