• Nebula Finalists 2005

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 14 14:01:12 2024
    2005: The discovery of the TNO Eris inspires a definition of the term
    planet that vexes Pluto fans to this day, Paul Martin managed to keep
    his Liberal government stumbling along despite the bag of dead cats
    he'd been handed by his predecessor, and a re-elected George W.
    Bush wows the world with his adroit management of the Katrina crisis.

    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
    Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
    Omega by Jack McDevitt
    Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
    The Knight by Gene Wolfe

    Just the Bujold, Doctorow, and the Wolfe.


    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams
    Just Like the Ones We Used to Know by Connie Willis
    The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge
    The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes by Adam-Troy Castro
    Walk in Silence by Catherine Asaro

    The Williams, the Willis, and the Vinge.


    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

    Basement Magic by Ellen Klages
    Dry Bones by William Sanders
    The Gladiator's War: A Dialog by Lois Tilton
    The Voluntary State by Christopher Rowe
    Zora and the Zombie by Andy Duncan

    Just the Rowe and the Duncan.


    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    Coming to Terms by Eileen Gunn
    Aloha by Ken Wharton
    Embracing-the-New by Benjamin Rosenbaum
    In the Late December by Greg van Eekhout
    The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Ann by Mike Moscoe
    Travels with My Cats by Mike Resnick

    None, which I think is a first.


    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry
    The Butterfly Effect by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress
    The Incredibles by Brad Bird

    Just the LOTR film and (despite the insistence of theatre staff that
    I exit their burning theatre) the Bird.
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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to Nicoll on Mon Oct 14 09:04:35 2024
    On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:01:12 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
    Nicoll) wrote:


    2005: The discovery of the TNO Eris inspires a definition of the term
    planet that vexes Pluto fans to this day, Paul Martin managed to keep
    his Liberal government stumbling along despite the bag of dead cats
    he'd been handed by his predecessor, and a re-elected George W.
    Bush wows the world with his adroit management of the Katrina crisis.

    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
    Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
    Omega by Jack McDevitt
    Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
    The Knight by Gene Wolfe

    Just the Bujold, Doctorow, and the Wolfe.


    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams
    Just Like the Ones We Used to Know by Connie Willis
    The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge
    The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes by Adam-Troy Castro
    Walk in Silence by Catherine Asaro

    The Williams, the Willis, and the Vinge.


    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

    Basement Magic by Ellen Klages
    Dry Bones by William Sanders
    The Gladiator's War: A Dialog by Lois Tilton
    The Voluntary State by Christopher Rowe
    Zora and the Zombie by Andy Duncan

    Just the Rowe and the Duncan.


    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    Coming to Terms by Eileen Gunn
    Aloha by Ken Wharton
    Embracing-the-New by Benjamin Rosenbaum
    In the Late December by Greg van Eekhout
    The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Ann by Mike Moscoe
    Travels with My Cats by Mike Resnick

    None, which I think is a first.


    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry >The Butterfly Effect by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress
    The Incredibles by Brad Bird

    Just the LOTR film and (despite the insistence of theatre staff that
    I exit their burning theatre) the Bird.

    It /is/ a good (dare I say "incredible"?) movie, but really ...
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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Mon Oct 14 10:17:13 2024
    In article <vej878$efg$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

    2005: The discovery of the TNO Eris inspires a definition of the term
    planet that vexes Pluto fans to this day, Paul Martin managed to keep
    his Liberal government stumbling along despite the bag of dead cats
    he'd been handed by his predecessor, and a re-elected George W.
    Bush wows the world with his adroit management of the Katrina crisis.

    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
    Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
    Omega by Jack McDevitt
    Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
    The Knight by Gene Wolfe

    Just the Bujold, Doctorow, and the Wolfe.


    Just the Bujold (though the Wolfe is in my unread stacks).


    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?

    The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams
    Just Like the Ones We Used to Know by Connie Willis
    The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge
    The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes by Adam-Troy Castro
    Walk in Silence by Catherine Asaro

    The Williams, the Willis, and the Vinge.


    The Williams, Vinge, and the Asaro (note all 3 were in Analog)


    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?

    Basement Magic by Ellen Klages
    Dry Bones by William Sanders
    The Gladiator's War: A Dialog by Lois Tilton
    The Voluntary State by Christopher Rowe
    Zora and the Zombie by Andy Duncan

    Just the Rowe and the Duncan.


    Maybe the Sanders (the title looks familiar)


    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?

    Coming to Terms by Eileen Gunn
    Aloha by Ken Wharton
    Embracing-the-New by Benjamin Rosenbaum
    In the Late December by Greg van Eekhout
    The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Ann by Mike Moscoe
    Travels with My Cats by Mike Resnick

    None, which I think is a first.


    I think the Moscoe (again in Analog).



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  • From Chris Buckley@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Tue Oct 15 13:28:02 2024
    On 2024-10-14, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

    2005: The discovery of the TNO Eris inspires a definition of the term
    planet that vexes Pluto fans to this day, Paul Martin managed to keep
    his Liberal government stumbling along despite the bag of dead cats
    he'd been handed by his predecessor, and a re-elected George W.
    Bush wows the world with his adroit management of the Katrina crisis.

    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
    Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
    Omega by Jack McDevitt
    Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
    The Knight by Gene Wolfe

    Just the Bujold, Doctorow, and the Wolfe.

    All but the McDevitt (I didn't think I missed that many of his) and Stewart.
    No Favorite Bookcase books; I liked the Bujold the most and the
    Mitchell the least.

    None of the shorter works

    Which 2005 Nebula Finalist Script's Film Have You Seen?

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry The Butterfly Effect by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress
    The Incredibles by Brad Bird

    Just the LOTR film and (despite the insistence of theatre staff that
    I exit their burning theatre) the Bird.

    Those are the two that I saw.

    I fell well behind on responding to the previous years. I'll comment
    on just the novels now; I don't think I read anything shorter but I
    won't bother checking.


    Which 2002 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
    A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
    Eternity's End by Jeffrey A. Carver
    Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis
    Passage by Connie Willis
    The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy
    The Tower at Stony Wood by Patricia A. McKillip

    I have a decent hit rate for this category: the Asaro, the Landis,
    the Willis, and the McCarthy. Avoided the Martin as the series was
    not at that time finished, I've never been able to finish a Carver
    (no idea why) and I will probably track down the McKillip. I might
    own it.

    Just the Asaro, Martin, and McKillip. No Favorites again, though the
    McKillip is close. The Asaro and Martin are both good.


    Which 2003 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    American Gods by Neil Gaiman
    Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick
    Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
    Picoverse by Robert A. Metzger
    Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
    The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin

    All but the Gaiman and the Mieville. Funny I'd miss
    those two authors in particular.

    I read those two, and the Swannick and Metzger. A major miss for me
    in that I evidently missed the LeGuin! Ordered now.

    Again no Favorites, with the Mieville close and the Gaiman was good.

    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.

    Those three for me also. The Moon was a close to Favorite, and the Bujold was good.

    Chris

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