(Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1971

[James Nicoll]

1971 Nebula Finalist Novels

Ringworld by Larry Niven
And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ
Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker
Fourth Mansions by R. A. Lafferty
The Steel Crocodile by D. G. Compton

1971 Nebula Finalist Novellas

Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
The Thing in the Stone by Clifford D. Simak
The Region Between by Harlan Ellison
April Fools' Day Forever by Kate Wilhelm
The Fatal Fulfillment by Poul Anderson
A Style in Treason by James Blish

1971 Nebula Finalist Novelettes

Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon
Continued on Next Rock by R. A. Lafferty
The Asian Shore by Thomas M. Disch
The Shaker Revival by Gerald Jonas
The Second Inquisition by Joanna Russ
Dear Aunt Annie by Gordon Eklund

1971 Nebula Finalist Short Stories

The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe
Entire and Perfect Chrysolite by R. A. Lafferty
In the Queue by Keith Laumer
By the Falls by Harry Harrison
The Creation of Bennie Good by James Sallis
A Dream at Noonday by Gardner Dozois
A Cold Dark Night with Snow by Kate Wilhelm

Of which I have read:

Novels
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker
The Steel Crocodile by D. G. Compton

Novellas
Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
The Thing in the Stone by Clifford D. Simak
The Region Between by Harlan Ellison
April Fools' Day Forever by Kate Wilhelm
The Fatal Fulfillment by Poul Anderson
A Style in Treason by James Blish

Novelettes
Continued on Next Rock by R. A. Lafferty
The Asian Shore by Thomas M. Disch

Short Stories
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe
Entire and Perfect Chrysolite by R. A. Lafferty
In the Queue by Keith Laumer
By the Falls by Harry Harrison
The Creation of Bennie Good by James Sallis
A Dream at Noonday by Gardner Dozois
A Cold Dark Night with Snow by Kate Wilhelm


Many finalists first appeared in Orbit, which is why the SFWA grognard
contingent orchestrated a No Award win for short story.

[William Hyde]

Post by James Nicoll
1971 Nebula Finalist Novels
Ringworld by Larry Niven
And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ
Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker
Fourth Mansions by R. A. Lafferty
The Steel Crocodile by D. G. Compton
1971 Nebula Finalist Novellas
Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
The Thing in the Stone by Clifford D. Simak
The Region Between by Harlan Ellison
April Fools' Day Forever by Kate Wilhelm
The Fatal Fulfillment by Poul Anderson
A Style in Treason by James Blish
1971 Nebula Finalist Novelettes
Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon
Continued on Next Rock by R. A. Lafferty
The Asian Shore by Thomas M. Disch
The Shaker Revival by Gerald Jonas
The Second Inquisition by Joanna Russ
Dear Aunt Annie by Gordon Eklund
1971 Nebula Finalist Short Stories
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe
Entire and Perfect Chrysolite by R. A. Lafferty
In the Queue by Keith Laumer
By the Falls by Harry Harrison
The Creation of Bennie Good by James Sallis
A Dream at Noonday by Gardner Dozois
A Cold Dark Night with Snow by Kate Wilhelm
Novels
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker
The Steel Crocodile by D. G. Compton
Novellas
Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
The Thing in the Stone by Clifford D. Simak
The Region Between by Harlan Ellison
April Fools' Day Forever by Kate Wilhelm
The Fatal Fulfillment by Poul Anderson
A Style in Treason by James Blish
Novelettes
Continued on Next Rock by R. A. Lafferty
The Asian Shore by Thomas M. Disch
Short Stories
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe
Entire and Perfect Chrysolite by R. A. Lafferty
In the Queue by Keith Laumer
By the Falls by Harry Harrison
The Creation of Bennie Good by James Sallis
A Dream at Noonday by Gardner Dozois
A Cold Dark Night with Snow by Kate Wilhelm
Many finalists first appeared in Orbit, which is why the SFWA grognard
contingent orchestrated a No Award win for short story.

I've read all of them. But this is the last year before university, chess, and
more diverse reading interests began to cut into my SF reading so I don't
expect to do as well ever again.

The grognards look utterly absurd now. Gene Wolfe remains one of the
giants of the field, while they are always the people who ... did that.

At least they could have voted for Laumer. Not a lot of spaceships and
blasters in that story, but he had plenty in other work.

William Hyde

[Ahasuerus]

On 2/19/2024 5:18 PM, William Hyde wrote:
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Post by William Hyde
The grognards look utterly absurd now. Gene Wolfe remains one of the
giants of the field, while they are always the people who ... did that.
At least they could have voted for Laumer. Not a lot of spaceships and
blasters in that story, but he had plenty in other work.

Apparently it was James Sallis’s “The Creation of Benny Hill” that
particularly infuriated them. Here is what Gardner Dozois once wrote
(https://www.tor.com/2011/02/20/hugo-nominees-1971/comment-page-1/#comment-166772)

Post by William Hyde
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!”

[Robert Carnegie]

Post by Ahasuerus
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The grognards look utterly absurd now.  Gene Wolfe remains one of the
giants of the field, while they are always the people who ... did that.
At least they could have voted for Laumer.  Not a lot of spaceships and
blasters in that story, but he had plenty in other work.

Apparently it was James Sallis’s “The Creation of Benny Hill” that

Or https://reactormag.com/hugo-nominees-1971/#comment-166772
And I see that this 2011 page has an archive of
the comments from tor dot com - perhaps
being presumably closed for comments
before it was moved to Reactor. Whereas
current conversations at the time of
the move may have to be considered lapsed?

When comments were in date order, I was
keeping any interesting page open until
no one had said anything in the last week.

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

Post by Ahasuerus
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Post by William Hyde
The grognards look utterly absurd now. Gene Wolfe remains one of the
giants of the field, while they are always the people who ... did that.
At least they could have voted for Laumer. Not a lot of spaceships and
blasters in that story, but he had plenty in other work.

Apparently it was James Sallis’s “The Creation of Benny Hill” that
(https://www.tor.com/2011/02/20/hugo-nominees-1971/comment-page-1/#comment-166772)

Post by William Hyde
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

Kind of ironic..

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752022/the-michael-moorcock-library-elric-the-making-of-a-sorcerer-by-written-by-michael-moorcock/