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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1987
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James Nicoll wrote:
> 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.
> 
Shaw, Bear, Delany and Robinson.

William Hyde