1999: The Mars Polar Lander more than succeeds at landing on Mars,
Liberty Bell 7 is retrieved after a slight delay from the Atlantic,
and across the world programmers work hard to prevent a calamity,
efforts that will late prove politically inconvenient to acknowledge.
Which 1999 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
The Last Hawk by Catherine Asaro
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
All but the Asaro.
Which 1999 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
Reading the Bones by Sheila Finch
Aurora in Four Voices by Catherine Asaro
Ecopoiesis by Geoffrey A. Landis
Izzy and the Father of Terror by Eliot Fintushel
Jumping Off the Planet by David Gerrold
The Boss in the Wall by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis
Only the Asaro and the Landis. Not a great year for me and short SFF.
Which 1999 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
Lost Girls by Jane Yolen
Echea by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Lethe by Walter Jon Williams
The Mercy Gate by Mark J. McGarry
The Truest Chill by Gregory Feeley
Time Gypsy by Ellen Klages
Only the Williams and the Klages.
Which 1999 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
Thirteen Ways to Water by Bruce Holland Rogers
Fortune and Misfortune by Lisa Goldstein
Standing Room Only by Karen Joy Fowler
Tall One by K. D. Wentworth
When the Bow Breaks by Steven Brust
Winter Fire by Geoffrey A. Landis
None what so ever. 2000 is likely to be as bad, then Andrew Wheeler
started force-feeding me fiction of all lengths.
1999: The Mars Polar Lander more than succeeds at landing on Mars,
Liberty Bell 7 is retrieved after a slight delay from the Atlantic,
and across the world programmers work hard to prevent a calamity,
efforts that will late prove politically inconvenient to acknowledge.
Which 1999 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
The Last Hawk by Catherine Asaro
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
All but the Asaro.
On 9/7/24 8:09 AM, Chris Buckley wrote:
On 2024-09-02, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
1999: The Mars Polar Lander more than succeeds at landing on Mars,
Liberty Bell 7 is retrieved after a slight delay from the Atlantic,
and across the world programmers work hard to prevent a calamity,
efforts that will late prove politically inconvenient to acknowledge.
Which 1999 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
The Last Hawk by Catherine Asaro
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
All but the Asaro.
I missed the Turtledove (I don't regret that), and the McDevett
(I do regret that). None of the others are Favorites.
Asaro remains an enigma to me. She was a hard scientist (PhD in
chemical physics from Harvard), nominated numerous times (9?) for
Hugo and Nebula awards (won two Nebulas), president of the SFWA
for two terms, has written about 40 novels, but she's remarkably unknown.
I don't remember the last time she was discussed here (mentioned a couple
of times but not discussed). Her works are generally on the lighter
space opera side, but that's true of a lot of authors, especially now.
Huh - now that you mention it, I don't think I've read anything by
Asaro. What would you recommend?
Asaro remains an enigma to me. She was a hard scientist (PhD in
chemical physics from Harvard), nominated numerous times (9?) for
Hugo and Nebula awards (won two Nebulas), president of the SFWA
for two terms, has written about 40 novels, but she's remarkably unknown.
I don't remember the last time she was discussed here (mentioned a couple
of times but not discussed). Her works are generally on the lighter
space opera side, but that's true of a lot of authors, especially now.
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