2017: The Royal College of Nursing's alarming description of conditions
in the NHS inspires the government to do worse, the Tories succeed in
freezing British lifespans after a century of progress, and the UK
begins that political equivalent of autoerotic asphyxiation known as
Brexit.

Which 2017 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
After Atlas by Emma Newman
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan

Another year where I have read half of them: the Chambers, the Newman,
and the Lee.
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On 10/6/2025 11:22 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

2017: The Royal College of Nursing's alarming description of conditions
in the NHS inspires the government to do worse, the Tories succeed in freezing British lifespans after a century of progress, and the UK
begins that political equivalent of autoerotic asphyxiation known as
Brexit.

Which 2017 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
After Atlas by Emma Newman
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan

Another year where I have read half of them: the Chambers, the Newman,
and the Lee.

"A Closed and Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers to which I gave 5 out of 5 stars.

Lynn


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