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  • Nebula Finalists 1977

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 1 14:44:22 2024
    Another week, another year of Nebula finalists. For some reason,
    1977 seems to have been my personal golden age, so I've read a lot
    of them.

    Which 1977 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
    Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
    Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg
    Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
    Islands by Marta Randall
    Triton by Samuel R. Delany

    All of them.


    Which 1977 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr.
    The Samurai and the Willows by Michael Bishop
    Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Richard Cowper
    The Eyeflash Miracles by Gene Wolfe

    Also all of them, although in the case of the Cowper it was as part
    of a novel.

    Which 1977 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

    The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
    In the Bowl by John Varley
    Custer's Last Jump by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
    His Hour Upon the Stage by Grant Carrington

    All but the final, which is new to me. A new author to seek out!

    Which 1977 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    Crowd of Shadows by Charles L. Grant
    Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman
    Stone Circle by Lisa Tuttle
    Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep by Thomas F. Monteleone
    Mary Margaret Road-Grader by Howard Waldrop
    Back to the Stone Age by Jake Saunders

    Just the Haldeman and the Waldrop. For the most part, the oversights
    were inadvertent. The exception is Laser-author Montelone. A day
    without Montelone is like a day without papercuts.

    Which 1977 Nebula Dramatic Presentation Have You Seen?

    Harlan! Harlan Ellison Reads Harlan Ellison by Harlan Ellison
    Logan's Run by David Zelag Goodman, George Clayton Johnson, and William
    F. Nolan
    The Man Who Fell to Earth by Paul Mayersberg and Walter Tevis

    Just the final two. I feel like Ellison could have worked his name
    in there a few more times.
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  • From Chris Buckley@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Wed Apr 17 02:37:03 2024
    On 2024-04-01, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
    Another week, another year of Nebula finalists. For some reason,
    1977 seems to have been my personal golden age, so I've read a lot
    of them.

    Which 1977 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
    Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
    Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg
    Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
    Islands by Marta Randall
    Triton by Samuel R. Delany

    All of them.

    Read all. Only the Wilhelm is on my Favorite bookcase. The
    Silverberg was good.


    Which 1977 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr.
    The Samurai and the Willows by Michael Bishop
    Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Richard Cowper
    The Eyeflash Miracles by Gene Wolfe

    Also all of them, although in the case of the Cowper it was as part
    of a novel.

    All but the Bishop (the Cowper as part of _The Road to Corlay_)

    Which 1977 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

    The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
    In the Bowl by John Varley
    Custer's Last Jump by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
    His Hour Upon the Stage by Grant Carrington

    All but the final, which is new to me. A new author to seek out!

    The Asimov and the Varley

    Which 1977 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    Crowd of Shadows by Charles L. Grant
    Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman
    Stone Circle by Lisa Tuttle
    Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep by Thomas F. Monteleone
    Mary Margaret Road-Grader by Howard Waldrop
    Back to the Stone Age by Jake Saunders

    Just the Haldeman and the Waldrop. For the most part, the oversights
    were inadvertent. The exception is Laser-author Montelone. A day
    without Montelone is like a day without papercuts.

    A complete miss.

    Which 1977 Nebula Dramatic Presentation Have You Seen?

    Harlan! Harlan Ellison Reads Harlan Ellison by Harlan Ellison
    Logan's Run by David Zelag Goodman, George Clayton Johnson, and William
    F. Nolan
    The Man Who Fell to Earth by Paul Mayersberg and Walter Tevis

    Just the final two. I feel like Ellison could have worked his name
    in there a few more times.

    The last two also.

    Chris

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  • From a425couple@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Wed Apr 17 11:38:15 2024
    On 4/1/24 07:44, James Nicoll wrote:

    Another week, another year of Nebula finalists. For some reason,
    1977 seems to have been my personal golden age, so I've read a lot
    of them.

    Which 1977 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
    Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
    Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg
    SNIP


    Which 1977 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

    The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov


    I have a hardcover, copyright 1992
    "The Positronic Man" by Isac Asimov & Robert Silverberg.
    It claims this is the 3rd Asimov-Silverberg collaboration.

    I guess the answer is,
    "In 1976 Isaac Asimov published the novelette “Bicentennial Man”,
    later expanded into a full-blown novel called “Positronic Man”
    with Robert Silverberg. It's part of Asimov's robot universe
    which later extends far into the future, all the way to the
    Foundation. Oct 23, 2021"

    also, from the wiki,
    "the story was collected in The Bicentennial Man and Other
    Stories (1976).[1]
    The story formed the basis of the novel The Positronic Man
    (1992), co-written with Robert Silverberg, and the 1999
    film Bicentennial Man, starring Robin Williams."

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