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  • Clarke Award Finalists 2009

    From James Nicoll@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 12 01:30:17 2025
    2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
    influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

    Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
    Anathem by Neal Stephenson
    House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
    Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
    The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
    The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

    The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
    but I never finished it.
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  • From Michael F. Stemper@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 12 04:10:32 2025
    On 11/08/2025 10.30, James Nicoll wrote:
    2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
    influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

    Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
    Anathem by Neal Stephenson
    House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
    Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
    The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
    The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

    I receive _Anathem_ as a Christmas present, and was done with it by
    the 29th. Strangely, I appear not to have read anything by him since.

    So many books, so little time.

    --
    Michael F. Stemper
    Life's too important to take seriously.


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  • From Cryptoengineer@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 12 04:45:29 2025
    On 8/11/2025 11:30 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
    influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

    Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
    Anathem by Neal Stephenson
    House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
    Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
    The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
    The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

    The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
    but I never finished it.

    Just the Stephenson, I think.

    pt

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  • From William Hyde@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 12 09:24:55 2025
    James Nicoll wrote:
    2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
    influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

    Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
    Anathem by Neal Stephenson
    House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
    Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
    The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
    The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

    The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
    but I never finished it.

    Just the Reynolds and only recently. I'm catching up!

    William Hyde

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  • From Lynn McGuire@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 12 16:26:33 2025
    On 8/11/2025 10:30 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
    influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

    Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
    Anathem by Neal Stephenson
    House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
    Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
    The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
    The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

    The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
    but I never finished it.

    None.

    Lynn


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  • From Titus G@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Aug 13 11:45:16 2025
    On 12/08/25 03:30, James Nicoll wrote:
    2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

    Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
    Anathem by Neal Stephenson
    House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
    Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
    The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
    The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

    The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
    but I never finished it.

    The Stephenson, (unfinished and forgotten), the brilliant 5 star
    Reynolds tale of generation ships, (most in hibernation), and the 4 star McAuley. Gardens of the Sun, the second in MacAuley's Quiet War trilogy,
    was just as good, but the resolution in the third, In the Mouth of the
    Whale, was a disappointment for me.

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  • From Tony Nance@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Aug 15 04:56:52 2025
    On 8/11/25 11:30 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
    influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

    Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
    Anathem by Neal Stephenson
    House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
    Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
    The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
    The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

    The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
    but I never finished it.

    Just the Reynolds, and just this past January, too. It was great.
    - Tony

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