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  • Clarke Award Finalists 1989

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 17 13:29:12 2025
    1989: A former Labour minister argues that a little thing like 95 deaths
    should not interfere with football matches, British police arrest 260
    people for being happy, and Thatcher's economic prudence steers the UK
    towards its second recession in a decade.

    Which 1989 Clarke Award Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
    The Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford
    Rumours of Spring by Richard Grant
    Kairos by Gwyneth Jones
    Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
    Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas by Michael Bishop
    Whores of Babylon by Ian Watson

    I've read all but the Jones and the Watson, but I have to admit this
    is the first time I've even heard of the Watson. Don't think I read
    anything by him after 1980.
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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Mon Mar 17 10:10:04 2025
    In article <vr9838$s9q$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] (James Nicoll) wrote:

    1989: A former Labour minister argues that a little thing like 95 deaths should not interfere with football matches, British police arrest 260
    people for being happy, and Thatcher's economic prudence steers the UK towards its second recession in a decade.

    Which 1989 Clarke Award Finalist Novels Have You Read?

    Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
    The Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford
    Rumours of Spring by Richard Grant
    Kairos by Gwyneth Jones
    Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
    Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas by Michael Bishop
    Whores of Babylon by Ian Watson

    I've read all but the Jones and the Watson, but I have to admit this
    is the first time I've even heard of the Watson. Don't think I read
    anything by him after 1980.

    Read none of them (an answer that will be repeated many times).

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