1990! Commercial internet took the first baby steps towards the
online utopia we now enjoy, Thatcher demonstrated to fellow Tories
who truly enjoyed the Mandate of Heaven, and the world's supply of
Germanies abruptly fell by half.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
All but the Yolen. Can't say I really enjoyed the Anderson.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold
A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop
A Touch of Lavender by Megan Lindholm
Great Work of Time by John Crowley
Marid Changes His Mind by George Alec Effinger
Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett
All but the Lindholm. There is strong correlation between me having
read a story and Dozois having anthologized it.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
At the Rialto by Connie Willis
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another by Robert Silverberg
Fast Cars by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
For I Have Touched the Sky by Mike Resnick
Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man by Megan Lindholm
Sisters by Greg Bear
All but the Rusch.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis
Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas
Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
The Adinkra Cloth by Mary C. Aldridge
The Ommatidium Miniatures by Michael Bishop
Just the first three. I am pretty sure there's no connection between
the Card and the movies of the same name.
In article <v5ueok$4eg$1@reader1.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis
Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas
Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
The Adinkra Cloth by Mary C. Aldridge
The Ommatidium Miniatures by Michael Bishop
Just the first three. I am pretty sure there's no connection between
the Card and the movies of the same name.
Maybe the Landis; I don't think I have read the Card.
On 01/07/2024 09.33, James Nicoll wrote:
1990! Commercial internet took the first baby steps towards the
online utopia we now enjoy, Thatcher demonstrated to fellow Tories
who truly enjoyed the Mandate of Heaven, and the world's supply of
Germanies abruptly fell by half.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
All but the Yolen. Can't say I really enjoyed the Anderson.
The Card and the Anderson. I didn't much care for it, either, and I
think that I'm probably more of an Anderson fan-boy than you are.
Welllll, there's a set of SF authors with whose flaws I am intimately familiar because I read and reread and reread so much of their stuff
because their virtues outweighed their flaws. Poul Anderson might be
the example whose works I own the most of, because he was so prolific.
On 2024-07-01, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
Welllll, there's a set of SF authors with whose flaws I am intimately
familiar because I read and reread and reread so much of their stuff
because their virtues outweighed their flaws. Poul Anderson might be
the example whose works I own the most of, because he was so prolific.
Now I'm curious: What are Anderson's characteristic flaws?
James Nicoll wrote:
The Demon of Scattery (1979) with Mildred Downey Broxon
In fact, one of my first proposals for tor dot com was for me to do
with Anderson what Tarr was doing for Norton.
My first thought was that I would reply to this to the effect: "Hah, you >don't have ..." as my own Anderson collection is extensive.
But you do.
And I have never read, it seems, "The demon of scattery", or even heard
of it.
James Nicoll wrote:
In article <v5uq9e$168of$1@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/07/2024 09.33, James Nicoll wrote:Welllll, there's a set of SF authors with whose flaws I am intimately
1990! Commercial internet took the first baby steps towards the
online utopia we now enjoy, Thatcher demonstrated to fellow Tories
who truly enjoyed the Mandate of Heaven, and the world's supply of
Germanies abruptly fell by half.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
All but the Yolen. Can't say I really enjoyed the Anderson.
The Card and the Anderson. I didn't much care for it, either, and I
think that I'm probably more of an Anderson fan-boy than you are.
familiar because I read and reread and reread so much of their stuff
because their virtues outweighed their flaws. Poul Anderson might be
the example whose works I own the most of, because he was so prolific.
A quick glance at ISFDB suggests I have read (and in most cases own)
the following:
i
Novels
Vault of the Ages (1952)
The Broken Sword (1954)
Brain Wave (1954) also appeared as:
No World of Their Own (1955) AKA The Long Way Home (1975)
Star Ways (1956) AKA The Peregrine (1978)
The Enemy Stars (1958)
War of the Wing-Men (1958) AKA The Man Who Counts (1978)
Virgin Planet (1959)
We Claim These Stars! (1959)
The High Crusade (1960)
Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961)
Orbit Unlimited (1961)
After Doomsday (1962)
Let the Spacemen Beware! (1963) AKA The Night Face (1978)
Shield (1963) also appeared as:
Three Worlds to Conquer (1964)
The Corridors of Time (1965)
The Star Fox (1965)
Ensign Flandry (1966)
World Without Stars (1967)
Satan's World (1969)
The Rebel Worlds (1969)
Tau Zero (1970)
A Circus of Hells (1970)
Operation Chaos (1971)
The Dancer from Atlantis (1971)
The Byworlder (1971)
There Will Be Time (1972)
The People of the Wind (1973)
Hrolf Kraki's Saga (1973)
Inheritors of Earth (1974) with Gordon Eklund
The Day of Their Return (1974)
A Midsummer Tempest (1974)
Fire Time (1974)
Star Prince Charlie (1975) with Gordon R. Dickson
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (1975)
The Winter of the World (1976)
Mirkheim (1977)
The Avatar (1978)
The Merman's Children (1979)
A Stone in Heaven (1979)
The Demon of Scattery (1979) with Mildred Downey Broxon
The Golden Horn (1980)
The Road of the Sea Horse (1980)
The Sign of the Raven (1980)
The Devil's Game (1980)
Orion Shall Rise (1983)
The Game of Empire (1985)
The Boat of a Million Years (1989)
Harvest of Stars (1993)
The Stars Are Also Fire (1994)
Harvest the Fire (1995)
Starfarers (1998)
Operation Luna (1999)
Genesis (2000)
For Love and Glory (2003)
Collections
Earthman's Burden (1957) with Gordon R. Dickson
Guardians of Time (1960 )AKA The Guardians of Time (1981)
Twilight World (1961)
Strangers from Earth (1961)
Un-Man and Other Novellas (1962)
Time and Stars (1964)
Trader to the Stars (1964)
Agent of the Terran Empire (1965)
Flandry of Terra (1965)
The Trouble Twisters (1966)
The Horn of Time (1968)
Seven Conquests: An Adventure in Science Fiction (1969)
Beyond the Beyond (1969)
Tales of the Flying Mountains (1970)
The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories (1973)
The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson (1974)AKA The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
Homeward and Beyond (1975)
Homebrew (1976)
The Best of Poul Anderson (1976)
The Earth Book of Stormgate (1978)
The Psycho-Technic League (1981)
Winners (1981)
Fantasy (1981)
Explorations (1981)
The Dark Between the Stars (1981)
Cold Victory (1982)
Starship (1982)
Maurai & Kith (1982)
The Gods Laughed (1982)
New America (1982)
The Long Night (1983)
Conflict (1983)
Hoka! (1983) with Gordon R. Dickson
Time Patrolman (1983)
Past Times (1984)
Dialogue with Darkness (1985)
Going for Infinity (2002)
The Van Rijn Method (2008)
David Falkayn: Star Trader (2009)
Plus the Cleopatra shared world anthology.
In fact, one of my first proposals for tor dot com was for me to do
with Anderson what Tarr was doing for Norton.
My first thought was that I would reply to this to the effect: "Hah, you don't have ..." as my own Anderson collection is extensive.
But you do.
And I have never read, it seems, "The demon of scattery", or even heard
of it.
William Hyde
In article <v5uq9e$168of$1@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/07/2024 09.33, James Nicoll wrote:
1990! Commercial internet took the first baby steps towards the
online utopia we now enjoy, Thatcher demonstrated to fellow Tories
who truly enjoyed the Mandate of Heaven, and the world's supply of
Germanies abruptly fell by half.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
All but the Yolen. Can't say I really enjoyed the Anderson.
The Card and the Anderson. I didn't much care for it, either, and I
think that I'm probably more of an Anderson fan-boy than you are.
Welllll, there's a set of SF authors with whose flaws I am intimately familiar because I read and reread and reread so much of their stuff
because their virtues outweighed their flaws. Poul Anderson might be
the example whose works I own the most of, because he was so prolific.
A quick glance at ISFDB suggests I have read (and in most cases own)
the following:
i
Novels
Vault of the Ages (1952)
In fact, one of my first proposals for tor dot com was for me to do
with Anderson what Tarr was doing for Norton.
On 01/07/2024 13.55, James Nicoll wrote:
In article <v5uq9e$168of$1@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/07/2024 09.33, James Nicoll wrote:Welllll, there's a set of SF authors with whose flaws I am intimately
1990! Commercial internet took the first baby steps towards the
online utopia we now enjoy, Thatcher demonstrated to fellow Tories
who truly enjoyed the Mandate of Heaven, and the world's supply of
Germanies abruptly fell by half.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
All but the Yolen. Can't say I really enjoyed the Anderson.
The Card and the Anderson. I didn't much care for it, either, and I
think that I'm probably more of an Anderson fan-boy than you are.
familiar because I read and reread and reread so much of their stuff
because their virtues outweighed their flaws. Poul Anderson might be
the example whose works I own the most of, because he was so prolific.
I seem to have not communicated clearly. To me, the term "fanboy"
refers to attitude rather than knowledge. It implies things such
as "adulation", "uncritical acceptance".
A fanboy wouldn't say something like "X's virtues outweigh his
flaws", but would say "what flaws?"
In fact, one of my first proposals for tor dot com was for me to do
with Anderson what Tarr was doing for Norton.
Interesting. What was Tarr doing for Norton? At one time, I loved her
work, but now find it a real chore to read.
1990! Commercial internet took the first baby steps towards the
online utopia we now enjoy, Thatcher demonstrated to fellow Tories
who truly enjoyed the Mandate of Heaven, and the world's supply of
Germanies abruptly fell by half.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
All but the Yolen. Can't say I really enjoyed the Anderson.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold
A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop
A Touch of Lavender by Megan Lindholm
Great Work of Time by John Crowley
Marid Changes His Mind by George Alec Effinger
Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett
All but the Lindholm. There is strong correlation between me having
read a story and Dozois having anthologized it.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
At the Rialto by Connie Willis
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another by Robert Silverberg
Fast Cars by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
For I Have Touched the Sky by Mike Resnick
Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man by Megan Lindholm
Sisters by Greg Bear
All but the Rusch.
Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?None
Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis
Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas
Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
The Adinkra Cloth by Mary C. Aldridge
The Ommatidium Miniatures by Michael Bishop
Just the first three. I am pretty sure there's no connection between
the Card and the movies of the same name.
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