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  • Clarke Award Finalists 1997

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 14:47:43 2025
    1997: The UK wins Eurovision, the BBC foolishly embraces that passing
    fad known as the internet, and Tony Blair wins a razor-thin 179 seat
    majority.

    Which 1997 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
    Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
    Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S. Tepper
    Looking for the Mahdi by N. Lee Wood
    The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
    Voyage by Stephen Baxter

    Just the Robinson, the Wood, the McDevitt, and the Baxter. The Baxter
    might be his best book.
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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Mon May 19 18:09:07 2025
    On 2025-05-19, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

    Which 1997 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
    Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

    The only thing I remember about _The Calcutta Chromosome_ is that
    it did not feel like SF at all.

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

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  • From Daniel Goldsmith@21:1/5 to Christian Weisgerber on Mon May 19 19:48:41 2025
    On 2025-05-19, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
    On 2025-05-19, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

    Which 1997 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
    Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

    The only thing I remember about _The Calcutta Chromosome_ is that
    it did not feel like SF at all.

    I think that's pretty SOP for the Clarke, though.

    Also, as here, the least SFnal one often wins.

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    dgold <news@dgold.eu>

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