On 7/7/2025 10:26 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
2004: Labour spares no effort to liberate Britons from human rights,
UKIP's electoral successes surely do not reflect fundamental flaws
in the British psyche, and London voters are heartbroken to discover
the Livingstone who was just elected mayor isn't the Livingstone
who co-wrote the Fighting Fantasy books.
Which 2004 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
Maul by Tricia Sullivan
Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
All but the Jones, whose books never clicked with me. To be fair,
about the only book on that list I'd recommend is the Gibson.
Quicksilver
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