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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Clarke Award Finalists 1987
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 09:34:22 -0500 (EST)
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best
science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during 
the previous year. It is named after British author Arthur C. Clarke 
(himself named for the geostationary orbit), who gave a grant to 
establish the award in 1987.

I didn't know about the grant. I wonder if that means the Clarke is 
immune to renaming, unlike the Campbell, the Campbell, and the Tiptree? 

Which 1987 Clarke Award Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (winner)
The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw (winner)
Eon by Greg Bear
Escape Plans by Gwyneth Jones
Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard
Queen of the States by Josephine Saxton
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson

The only two I have not read are the Jones and the Saxton. 
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