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From: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
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Subject: Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1993
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:30:55 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vtj446$22t$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

>Which 1993 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
>Body of Glass (variant of He, She and It) by Marge Piercy
>Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
>Correspondence by Sue Thomas
>Destroying Angel by Richard Paul Russo
>Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
>Hearts, Hands and Voices by Ian McDonald
>Lost Futures by Lisa Tuttle
>Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
>
>This was a bit of an off-year for me. I've only read the Piercy,
>the Robinson, the Willis, and the Swanwick. 

1993 was my last calendar year of college, and I was (cough) rather
impecunious and having difficulty with my studies.  I was buying used
paperbacks if anything.[1]  Probably spent more time reading flamewars
in this very newsgroup[2] than I did actually reading SF.

I have at least *heard* of the Robinson, the Willis, and the Swanwick.
Haven't read any of them.

-GAWollman

[1] I was living three blocks from the main public library, much
closer even than the university library, but I was spending most of my
time in the CS "fishbowl" and have basically no memory of ever
visiting the public library at that time.

[2] And figuring out how to download porn from the nascent copyright
violation newsgroups that would go on to kill Usenet for all but the
most dedicated users a decade later.
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