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Subject: Re: Clarke Award 1996
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 11:15:09 -0700
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On 5/17/2025 10:36 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
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> 
> On 5/12/25 07:36, James Nicoll wrote:
>> 1996! The UK's prompt, effective efforts to prevent another Dunblane
>> Massacre confuse, anger American observers, Dolly the sheep's cloning
>> points way forward for unfuckable Royals, and the Tories now only
>> slightly less popular than Myra Hindley.
>>
>> Which 1996 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
>> Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley
>> The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod
>> Happy Policeman by Patricia Anthony
>> The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
>> The Prestige by Christopher Priest
>> The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
>>
>> This time, I've read all of them.
> 
>      The Stephenson and the Baxter.
> Stephenson was good and I fail to recall the
> Baxter in any detail.
> 
'The Time Ships' was a "sequel" to H.G. Wells' 'The Time Machine'.

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