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  • Clarke Award Finalists 1990

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 24 14:42:09 2025
    1990: The Community Charge inspires hundreds of thousands to actively participate in street-level politics, Neil Kinnock's Labour Party enjoys
    an unassailable 12 point lead over the Tories, and Thatcher is replaced
    as Prime Minister by John "ran away from the circus to become an
    accountant" Major.

    Which 1990 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
    A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
    A Mask for the General by Lisa Goldstein
    Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
    Ivory by Mike Resnick
    Neverness by David Zindell
    Soldiers of Paradise by Paul Park

    The only one I have not read is the Carroll. No idea what the Resnick
    is doing on there, though.

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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Mon Mar 24 10:09:30 2025
    In article <vrrr01$q4b$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

    1990: The Community Charge inspires hundreds of thousands to actively participate in street-level politics, Neil Kinnock's Labour Party enjoys
    an unassailable 12 point lead over the Tories, and Thatcher is replaced
    as Prime Minister by John "ran away from the circus to become an
    accountant" Major.

    Which 1990 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
    A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
    A Mask for the General by Lisa Goldstein
    Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
    Ivory by Mike Resnick
    Neverness by David Zindell
    Soldiers of Paradise by Paul Park

    The only one I have not read is the Carroll. No idea what the Resnick
    is doing on there, though.

    None of them (don't even recognize the names of several)

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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Tue Mar 25 08:41:21 2025
    On 2025-03-24, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

    Which 1990 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Neverness by David Zindell

    That one was very popular with the transhumanist crowd at the time.
    For me, it resonated less than, say, Greg Egan. Zindell felt too
    poetic, too... literary?

    Here's an old review of mine:
    http://sites.inka.de/mips/reviews/Neverness.html

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