Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1998

On 28/05/25 03:19, a425couple wrote:

On 5/26/25 22:04, Titus G wrote:

On 27/05/25 01:28, James Nicoll wrote:

1998! The Good Friday Agreement gives Tories something new to undermine,
Former Conservative Cabinet Minister Enoch Powell makes his greatest
contribution to Britain by dying, and Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent
paper
puts him in the running with Thomas Midgley Jr. for single individual
who did the most to undermine public health.
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(Strange!  I sent a reply yesterday.  And as I view the newsgroup,
it is marked as a little bluish arrow next to Nichols original post,
but then when opened, there is nothing there.  It is also not in my
"sent mail", nor in "drafts", nor in the backlog.  ???)
 

Which 1998 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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I have read
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
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I have only read the Russell, which was Xtian tosh, and the Baxter,
which
was much worse. Would not be surprised if I read the worst two of that
set.

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I thought that the Sparrow was absolutely brilliant as a horror story
which basically addressed the Xtian question of whether great suffering
was necessary to produce great art. There were further complications to
result in a great read. Five stars.
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I read "The Sparrow" quite recently.  (Gave a copy of it to a friend,
who loved it.  He also loved the sequel.)  I quite enjoyed the sci-fi
and the world expanding and loving creation of new situations.  I did
not enjoy the torture and 'abandonment' acts and feelings.

I understand. That was probably the most horrible horror I have read.
There was also the horror of the injustice in regard to the death of the
young girl.

I got about 1/3 of way through the sequel, then due to sadness and
onfusion, stalled out.

I have the sequel but because of my dislike of that type of horror, I
have not opened it.