Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1994

On 22/04/25 01:42, James Nicoll wrote:

1994: At least four MPs die from unrelated causes, Tony Blair uses his
new position as leader of the Labour Party to make bold economic
statements unbounded by reality, and in a bold rebuke of a half million
years of effort to isolate Britain from the continent, the Chunnel opens.
 
Which 1994 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Vurt by Jeff Noon
A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Broken God by David Zindell
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick

Vurt and Snow Crash, both 5 stars.

I have reread Snow Crash and it has been discussed here previously.
Vurt was the first Jeff Noon book that I read and it was so long ago
that I only retain a vague outline of the story but remember with
horror, the future with advertising flies, and with wonder, the novelty
of his writing style which probably transformed a 4 star book into 5.
The second book I tried had a similar style and disappointed me though
my expectations may have been too high. I have a copy of the Body
Library but don't remember if that is the one I read or not because Vurt
was from the local library so the second probably was as well.