James Nicoll wrote:
1974 Nebula Finalist Novels
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
The People of the Wind by Poul Anderson
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
I have read all but the Pynchon. Even if that is the work of genius it
was said to be, this is a weakish year, with only Rama really standing out.
1974 Nebula Finalist Novels
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
Time for another round of Which Nebula Finalists Have You Read? This
time we revisit 1974, a year in which I got to read a lot of science
fiction because Richard M. Nixon kept preempting my TV shows. This
year's categories had fewer finalists than 1973, but one more category.
1974 Nebula Finalist Novels
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
The People of the Wind by Poul Anderson
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:32:07 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:
Time for another round of Which Nebula Finalists Have You Read? This
time we revisit 1974, a year in which I got to read a lot of science >>fiction because Richard M. Nixon kept preempting my TV shows. This
year's categories had fewer finalists than 1973, but one more category.
1974 Nebula Finalist Novels
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
The People of the Wind by Poul Anderson
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
I couldn't find the URL of the page with your essay on this topic in
this post. So I did a Google search to assuage my curiosity...
and found
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/1974/
which states that The Disposessed by Ursula K. LeGuin won the
1974 Nebula Award for Best Novel... and the other finalists were
The Godwhale by T. J. Bass
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
334 by Thomas M. Disch
Presumably you are posting about the awards of the previous
year or the following year, due to an oversight. Since Rendezvous
with Rama, Gravity's Rainbow, and so on were also published in
this reality, the other possibility seems unlikely...
Indeed, my guess was correct:
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/1973/
you were writing about the *1973* Nebula Awards finalists.
William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
James Nicoll wrote:
1974 Nebula Finalist Novels
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
The People of the Wind by Poul Anderson
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
I have read all but the Pynchon. Even if that is the work of genius it >>was said to be, this is a weakish year, with only Rama really standing out.
You don't think Man who Folded Himself is a standout? It is one of my >all-time favorites.
Gravity's Rainbow is worth reading but I don't think it is anywhere near
as fun as Crying of Lot 49.
Time for another round of Which Nebula Finalists Have You Read? This
time we revisit 1974, a year in which I got to read a lot of science
fiction because Richard M. Nixon kept preempting my TV shows. This
year's categories had fewer finalists than 1973, but one more category.
1974 Nebula Finalist Novels
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
The People of the Wind by Poul Anderson
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
1974 Nebula Finalist Novellas
The Death of Dr. Island by Gene Wolfe
Chains of the Sea by Gardner Dozois
Death and Designation Among the Asadi by Michael Bishop
Junction by Jack Dann
The White Otters of Childhood by Michael Bishop
1974 Nebula Finalist Novelettes
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand by Vonda N. McIntyre
Case and the Dreamer by Theodore Sturgeon
The Deathbird by Harlan Ellison
The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree, Jr.
1974 Nebula Finalist Short Stories
Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death by James Tiptree, Jr.
A Thing of Beauty by Norman Spinrad
How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion
by Gene Wolfe
Shark by Edward Bryant
Wings by Vonda N. McIntyre
With Morning Comes Mistfall by George R. R. Martin
On 11/03/2024 18.27, William Hyde wrote:
Garrett Wollman wrote:
In article <usn14n$3cg$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
[big snips]
1974 Nebula Finalist Novels
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
a lot more of Heinlein's friends and admirers were in SFWA at the
time.
And given his recent health issues, they may have felt that this was
their last chance to nominate him.
I suspect that the overlap between the people who voted "No Award" to
keep Gene Wolfe from a nebula a couple of years earlier and those who
nominated this would be large.
Huh? What did they have against Wolfe? His stuff's not my cuppa,
but I wouldn't cross the street to keep him from an award.
This was the height of the War of the New Wave, and passions
between the New Wave camp and the conservative Old Guard camp
were running high. (The same year, Michael Moorcock said in a
review that the only way SFWA could have found a worse thing
than RINGWORLD to give the Nebula to was to give it to a comic
book). The fact that the short story ballot was almost
completely made up of stuff from ORBIT had outraged the Old
Guard, particularly James Sallis’s surreal “The Creation of
Benny Hill”, and they block-voted for No Award as a protest
against “non-functional word patterns” making the ballot.
Judy-Lynn del Rey told me as much immediately after the
banquet, when she was exuberantly gloating about how they’d
“put ORBIT in its place” with the voting results, and
actually said “We won!”
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