• Nebula Finalists 2004

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 7 13:39:38 2024
    2004! Mark Zuckerberg's "Facemash" is rebranded to provide a global
    audience the security, copyright and individual privacy concerns once
    the monopoly of the Harvard network, American voters rebuke George W.
    Bush for his ineptitude by forcing him to remain in office for another
    four years, and humanity gets its first close-up view of the moon
    Titan's surface.


    Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
    Chindi by Jack McDevitt
    Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
    Light Music by Kathleen Ann Goonan
    The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
    The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson

    The Moon, the McDevitt, and the Bujold.


    Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    Coraline by Neil Gaiman
    Breathmoss by Ian R. MacLeod
    Stories for Men by John Kessel
    The Empress of Mars by Kage Baker
    The Potter of Bones by Eleanor Arnason

    Just the MacLeod and the Baker.


    Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
    The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford
    0wnz0red by Cory Doctorow
    Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs by Adam-Troy Castro
    The Mask of the Rex by Richard Bowes
    The Wages of Syntax by Ray Vukcevich

    Just the Doctorow and the Bowes.


    Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    What I Didn't See by Karen Joy Fowler
    Goodbye to All That by Harlan Ellison
    Grandma by Carol Emshwiller
    Knapsack Poems by Eleanor Arnason
    Lambing Season by Molly Gloss
    The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
    The Last of the O-Forms by James Van Pelt

    Just the Emshwiller, Gloss and the Van Pelt.


    Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens,
    Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson
    Finding Nemo by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds
    Futurama: "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" by David A. Goodman
    Minority Report by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen
    Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt

    All of them.

    Geez, was I even reading SFF this year?
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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Mon Oct 7 09:59:43 2024
    In article <ve0oaq$rfi$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

    2004! Mark Zuckerberg's "Facemash" is rebranded to provide a global
    audience the security, copyright and individual privacy concerns once
    the monopoly of the Harvard network, American voters rebuke George W.
    Bush for his ineptitude by forcing him to remain in office for another
    four years, and humanity gets its first close-up view of the moon
    Titan's surface.


    Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
    Chindi by Jack McDevitt
    Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
    Light Music by Kathleen Ann Goonan
    The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
    The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson

    The Moon, the McDevitt, and the Bujold.


    Only the Bujold


    Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    Coraline by Neil Gaiman
    Breathmoss by Ian R. MacLeod
    Stories for Men by John Kessel
    The Empress of Mars by Kage Baker
    The Potter of Bones by Eleanor Arnason

    Just the MacLeod and the Baker.


    None


    Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
    The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford
    0wnz0red by Cory Doctorow
    Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs by Adam-Troy Castro
    The Mask of the Rex by Richard Bowes
    The Wages of Syntax by Ray Vukcevich

    Just the Doctorow and the Bowes.


    None


    Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    What I Didn't See by Karen Joy Fowler
    Goodbye to All That by Harlan Ellison
    Grandma by Carol Emshwiller
    Knapsack Poems by Eleanor Arnason
    Lambing Season by Molly Gloss
    The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
    The Last of the O-Forms by James Van Pelt

    Just the Emshwiller, Gloss and the Van Pelt.


    None


    Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?


    None of course.


    Geez, was I even reading SFF this year?

    I was not reading the SF that was being nominated for Nebulas.

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    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹-----------------------------------------------------
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  • From Bice@21:1/5 to Nicoll on Tue Oct 8 13:16:21 2024
    On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 13:39:38 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
    Nicoll) wrote:

    Which 2004 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens,
    Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson
    Finding Nemo by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds
    Futurama: "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" by David A. Goodman
    Minority Report by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen
    Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt

    Wow, I actually saw all of those, despite Tom Cruise being in one of
    them.

    I think that's a first for me for any category of one of these lists.

    -- Bob

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