On 2/12/25 05:13, James Nicoll wrote:
2024: Scutigera coleoptrata become established in the UK, a Trident
missile suffers performance anxiety during a test and refuses to leave
its sub, and Labour sweeps to victory in the General Election, with surprising little effect on the subsequent frequency of cruel and
vindictive legislation.
Which 2024 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
I've read the last three, which was superhandy for the html on
DreamWidth. No danger of forgetting the </b>.
In 2023, I enjoyed _The Mountain in the Sea_ by Ray Nayler in which communication between brains which see things differently in order to
survive is seriously considered in a first contact situation where the
alien brain is not from space but an evolved group of octopi in our
distant future. The book was far more than that, a fascinating dystopia
with plenty of, conflict, action, differing characters on different
rungs of wealth, social and political ladders.
There is a brilliant review here:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/18/the-mountain-in-the-sea-by-ray-nayler-how-to-speak-octopus
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