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  • Clarke Award Finalists 2010

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 18 14:38:45 2025
    2010: Cadbury falls into shadow, electoral loss sends the Labour Party off
    on a delightful journey of reinvention, and millions of travelers
    spontaneously learn how to spell Eyjafjallajokull (which the limitations
    of USENET prevent me from doing here).

    Which 2010 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    The City & The City by China Mieville
    Far North by Marcel Theroux
    Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
    Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
    Spirit or The Princess of Bois Dormant by Gwyneth Jones
    Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts

    Only the Mieville and the Robinson.
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  • From Titus G@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Wed Aug 20 16:50:42 2025
    On 19/08/25 02:38, James Nicoll wrote:
    2010: Cadbury falls into shadow, electoral loss sends the Labour Party off
    on a delightful journey of reinvention, and millions of travelers spontaneously learn how to spell Eyjafjallajokull (which the limitations
    of USENET prevent me from doing here).

    Which 2010 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    The City & The City by China Mieville
    Far North by Marcel Theroux
    Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
    Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
    Spirit or The Princess of Bois Dormant by Gwyneth Jones
    Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts

    Only the Mieville and the Robinson.

    The Mieville and the Roberts, both 4 stars.

    Apart from the Kraken, I have rated the other five Mieville novels I
    have read as four stars. Sometimes he is too clever for me to understand
    but once started reading I find his thoughts fascinatingly weird.

    Roberts is just as clever but in a more conservative way. It will be fascinating if he ever tries steampunk.

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