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Subject: Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1994
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On 22/04/25 01:42, James Nicoll wrote:
> 1994: At least four MPs die from unrelated causes, Tony Blair uses his 
> new position as leader of the Labour Party to make bold economic 
> statements unbounded by reality, and in a bold rebuke of a half million 
> years of effort to isolate Britain from the continent, the Chunnel opens. 
> 
> Which 1994 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
> Vurt by Jeff Noon
> A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
> Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
> Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
> The Broken God by David Zindell
> The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick

Vurt and Snow Crash, both 5 stars.

I have reread Snow Crash and it has been discussed here previously.
Vurt was the first Jeff Noon book that I read and it was so long ago
that I only retain a vague outline of the story but remember with
horror, the future with advertising flies, and with wonder, the novelty
of his writing style which probably transformed a 4 star book into 5.
The second book I tried had a similar style and disappointed me though
my expectations may have been too high. I have a copy of the Body
Library but don't remember if that is the one I read or not because Vurt
was from the local library so the second probably was as well.