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.
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jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) writes:

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 Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
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In article <vvt115$o1e$1@reader1.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (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.

And I, none (as usual).

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"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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On 13/05/25 05:44, William Hyde wrote:

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

I posted my review of two stars here in February.

The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod

Read but not remembered,

Happy Policeman by Patricia Anthony
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

Brilliant. Four stars. Recommended.

The Prestige by Christopher Priest

Strangely, I enjoyed the film more than the book.

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

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On 2025-05-12, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

Which 1996 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod

We're well into the period where I was buying heaps of books by
mail-order from Andromeda in Birmingham (UK), based on their catalog,
so I probably picked up more British writers than I otherwise might
have.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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On 5/12/25 07:36, 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 Stephenson and the Baxter.
Stephenson was good and I fail to recall the
Baxter in any detail.

bliss

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On 5/17/2025 10:36 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 5/12/25 07:36, 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 Stephenson and the Baxter.
Stephenson was good and I fail to recall the
Baxter in any detail.

'The Time Ships' was a "sequel" to H.G. Wells' 'The Time Machine'.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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On Sat, 17 May 2025 11:15:09 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 5/17/2025 10:36 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 5/12/25 07:36, 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 Stephenson and the Baxter.
Stephenson was good and I fail to recall the
Baxter in any detail.

'The Time Ships' was a "sequel" to H.G. Wells' 'The Time Machine'.

It folds in a couple of Wells's short stories as well - "The Plattner Experiment" was one.

--
Jerry Brown

A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)

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