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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Clarke Award 1996
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James Nicoll wrote:
> 1996! The UK's prompt, effective efforts to prevent another Dunblane
> Massacre confuse, anger American observers, Dolly the sheep's cloning
> points way forward for unfuckable Royals, and the Tories now only
> slightly less popular than Myra Hindley.
> 
> Which 1996 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
> Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley
> The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod
> Happy Policeman by Patricia Anthony
> The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
> The Prestige by Christopher Priest
> The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
> 
> This time, I've read all of them.
> 
The Macleod, Priest, and Baxter.

Something of a record for me in recent-ish decades.

William Hyde