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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: (Clarke) Which 2003 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:52:31 -0700
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In article <103u84v$dl4$1@reader2.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> 2003: PM Blair embraces hilariously transparent lies to justify the 
> invasion of Iraq, two million Britons reveal the power of public outrage 
> when they protest the Iraq War to no effect, and the Coalition of the 
> Billing (UK included) faces an occupation of Iraq that will no doubt 
> be entirely without unforeseen challenges or consequences.
> 
> Which 2003 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
> The Separation by Christopher Priest
> Kiln People by David Brin
> Light by M. John Harrison
> The Scar by China Mieville
> The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
> The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
> 
> A hit or miss year for me. I've only read the Brin, the Moon, and 
> the Robinson. Oddly, the SFBC had me read the (mostly plotless)
> sequel to Light but not Light itself.

I have read the Brin (IIRC, there is but one other Clarke nominee in the 
last 2 decades that I have read).

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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