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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (Clarke Award) Clarke Award Finalists 2004
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 18:25:42 -0500
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On 7/7/2025 9:26 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> 2004: Labour spares no effort to liberate Britons from human rights,
> UKIP's electoral successes surely do not reflect fundamental flaws
> in the British psyche, and London voters are heartbroken to discover
> the Livingstone who was just elected mayor isn't the Livingstone
> who co-wrote the Fighting Fantasy books.
> 
> Which 2004 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
> Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
> Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
> Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
> Maul by Tricia Sullivan
> Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones
> Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
> 
> All but the Jones, whose books never clicked with me. To be fair,
> about the only book on that list I'd recommend is the Gibson.

Darwin's Children.

Lynn