Re: Clarke Award Finalists 2006

Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 21/07/2025 08.04, James Nicoll wrote:

2006: J. Richard Gott III's methodology suggests 80-year-old Queen
Elizabeth will live until somewhere between 2032 and 2066, a European
heatwave sets a record that will surely stand in perpetuity, and
Profumo's demise at an advanced age reminds Britons of the dire
consequences for politicians of scandal... nil.
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Which 2006 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Air by Geoff Ryman
Accelerando by Charles Stross
Banner of Souls by Liz Williams
Learning the World by Ken MacLeod
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

 The Stross and the Reynolds. I've read the Stross multiple times.
I was amused to see Keith cited in it.
 Reynolds is always a slog for me, so I've never reread anything
of his.
 

It's the only Stross I've not been able to finish.  I've stayed up to dawn to finish many of his other books.
I didn't finish my first Reynolds, either.  Now I devour them.
William Hyde