On 8/18/2025 9:38 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

2010: Cadbury falls into shadow, electoral loss sends the Labour Party off
on a delightful journey of reinvention, and millions of travelers spontaneously learn how to spell Eyjafjallajokull (which the limitations
of USENET prevent me from doing here).

Which 2010 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The City & The City by China Mieville
Far North by Marcel Theroux
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
Spirit or The Princess of Bois Dormant by Gwyneth Jones
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts

Only the Mieville and the Robinson.

Zero for me.

Lynn


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On 19/08/25 02:38, James Nicoll wrote:

2010: Cadbury falls into shadow, electoral loss sends the Labour Party off on a delightful journey of reinvention, and millions of travelers spontaneously learn how to spell Eyjafjallajokull (which the limitations
of USENET prevent me from doing here).

Which 2010 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The City & The City by China Mieville
Far North by Marcel Theroux
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
Spirit or The Princess of Bois Dormant by Gwyneth Jones
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts

Only the Mieville and the Robinson.

The Mieville and the Roberts, both 4 stars.

Apart from the Kraken, I have rated the other five Mieville novels I
have read as four stars. Sometimes he is too clever for me to understand
but once started reading I find his thoughts fascinatingly weird.

Roberts is just as clever but in a more conservative way. It will be fascinating if he ever tries steampunk.

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On 8/18/25 10:38 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

2010: Cadbury falls into shadow, electoral loss sends the Labour Party off
on a delightful journey of reinvention, and millions of travelers spontaneously learn how to spell Eyjafjallajokull (which the limitations
of USENET prevent me from doing here).

Which 2010 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The City & The City by China Mieville
Far North by Marcel Theroux
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
Spirit or The Princess of Bois Dormant by Gwyneth Jones
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts

Only the Mieville and the Robinson.

Dang. Now I'm back to not having read any of the authors at all. Oh
wait, I did read a novella by Robinson. It was part of a Tor double with Vance's The Dragon Masters...aha A Short, Sharp Shock. I remember
nothing about it.

I did try something of Mieville's once. I don't remember what it was;
but I remember I gave up quickly because either his words or my brain
were made of teflon, and absolutely nothing was sticking.

Tony

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