Re: Clarke Award 1996

On Sat, 17 May 2025 11:15:09 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 5/17/2025 10:36 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

 
 
On 5/12/25 07:36, James Nicoll wrote:

1996! The UK's prompt, effective efforts to prevent another Dunblane
Massacre confuse, anger American observers, Dolly the sheep's cloning
points way forward for unfuckable Royals, and the Tories now only
slightly less popular than Myra Hindley.
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Which 1996 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley
The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod
Happy Policeman by Patricia Anthony
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
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This time, I've read all of them.

 
     The Stephenson and the Baxter.
Stephenson was good and I fail to recall the
Baxter in any detail.
 

'The Time Ships' was a "sequel" to H.G. Wells' 'The Time Machine'.

It folds in a couple of Wells's short stories as well - "The Plattner
Experiment" was one.

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Jerry Brown

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