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  • Clarke Award Finalists 2010

    From James Nicoll@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 19 00:38:45 2025
    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.
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  • From Cryptoengineer@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 19 11:09:33 2025
    On 8/18/2025 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.

    Only the Mieville

    pt


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  • From Lynn McGuire@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 19 14:57:01 2025
    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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  • From Titus G@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Aug 20 14:50:42 2025
    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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  • From Tony Nance@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Aug 21 05:00:06 2025
    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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