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  • Clarke Award Finalists 2006

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 21 09:04:53 2025
    2006: J. Richard Gott III's methodology suggests 80-year-old Queen
    Elizabeth will live until somewhere between 2032 and 2066, a European
    heatwave sets a record that will surely stand in perpetuity, and
    Profumo's demise at an advanced age reminds Britons of the dire
    consequences for politicians of scandal... nil.

    Which 2006 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Air by Geoff Ryman
    Accelerando by Charles Stross
    Banner of Souls by Liz Williams
    Learning the World by Ken MacLeod
    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

    All of them.
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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Michael F. Stemper on Fri Jul 25 14:23:27 2025
    "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> writes:
    On 23/07/2025 17.03, William Hyde wrote:
    Michael F. Stemper wrote:
    On 21/07/2025 08.04, James Nicoll wrote:

    Which 2006 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Air by Geoff Ryman
    Accelerando by Charles Stross
    Banner of Souls by Liz Williams
    Learning the World by Ken MacLeod
    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

    The Stross and the Reynolds. I've read the Stross multiple times.
    I was amused to see Keith cited in it.

    Reynolds is always a slog for me, so I've never reread anything
    of his.

    It's the only Stross I've not been able to finish.  I've stayed up to dawn to finish many of his other books.

    Stross and Bujold are the two authors that I'm reading in close to real time. >This is actually the first time in my life that I've been reading stuff that >isn't decades old.

    The Bujold is a decade old, in the Vorkosigan-verse, anyway.


    I didn't finish my first Reynolds, either.  Now I devour them.

    Just out of curiosity, was it _Revelation Space_? That was mine, and almost >kept me from ever reading anything else by him.

    Yeah, I got about a quarter way through that one. Just couldn't get into it.

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  • From a425couple@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Fri Jul 25 08:42:04 2025
    On 7/21/25 06:04, James Nicoll wrote:
    2006: J. Richard Gott III's methodology suggests 80-year-old Queen
    Elizabeth will live until somewhere between 2032 and 2066, a European heatwave sets a record that will surely stand in perpetuity, and
    Profumo's demise at an advanced age reminds Britons of the dire
    consequences for politicians of scandal... nil.

    Which 2006 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

    Learning the World by Ken MacLeod

    I stalled out fairly early on "Learning the World"
    by Ken MacLeod

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  • From Jerry Brown@21:1/5 to michael.stemper@gmail.com on Sat Jul 26 13:57:24 2025
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:34:25 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 23/07/2025 17.03, William Hyde wrote:

    <snip>

    I didn't finish my first Reynolds, either.  Now I devour them.

    Just out of curiosity, was it _Revelation Space_? That was mine, and almost >kept me from ever reading anything else by him.

    I made it through to the bitter end of the Revelation Space series,
    but now find I far prefer his other series (Poseidon's Children,
    Revenger) and standalones (Century Rain, Terminal World, etc).

    --
    Jerry Brown

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

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to michael.stemper@gmail.com on Sun Jul 27 13:09:39 2025
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:34:25 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

    Stross and Bujold are the two authors that I'm reading in close to real time. >This is actually the first time in my life that I've been reading stuff that >isn't decades old.

    Is she still writing? I first discovered her in the late 80s when she
    was first published in Analog - I think it was 'Falling Free' (it was
    her first story about the Quaddies which preceded the Miles series)

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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to lcraver@home.ca on Sun Jul 27 22:48:50 2025
    In article <3j1d8k5m5f24ik858kncj074vh9ujbqrhb@4ax.com>,
    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:34:25 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper" ><michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

    Stross and Bujold are the two authors that I'm reading in close to real time. >>This is actually the first time in my life that I've been reading stuff that >>isn't decades old.

    Is she still writing? I first discovered her in the late 80s when she
    was first published in Analog - I think it was 'Falling Free' (it was
    her first story about the Quaddies which preceded the Miles series)

    Bujold just published a new Penric: The Adventure of the Demonic Ox.
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