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  • Clarke Award Finalists 2009

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 11 15:30:17 2025
    2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
    influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

    Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
    Anathem by Neal Stephenson
    House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
    Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
    The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
    The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

    The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
    but I never finished it.
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  • From Titus G@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Wed Aug 13 13:45:16 2025
    On 12/08/25 03:30, James Nicoll wrote:
    2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
    influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

    Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
    Anathem by Neal Stephenson
    House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
    Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
    The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
    The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

    The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
    but I never finished it.

    The Stephenson, (unfinished and forgotten), the brilliant 5 star
    Reynolds tale of generation ships, (most in hibernation), and the 4 star McAuley. Gardens of the Sun, the second in MacAuley's Quiet War trilogy,
    was just as good, but the resolution in the third, In the Mouth of the
    Whale, was a disappointment for me.

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