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2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
but I never finished it.
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On 11/08/2025 10.30, James Nicoll wrote:

2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

I receive _Anathem_ as a Christmas present, and was done with it by
the 29th. Strangely, I appear not to have read anything by him since.

So many books, so little time.
--
Michael F. Stemper
Life's too important to take seriously.

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On 8/11/2025 11:30 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
but I never finished it.

Just the Stephenson, I think.

pt
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James Nicoll wrote:

2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
but I never finished it.

Just the Reynolds and only recently. I'm catching up!

William Hyde
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On 8/11/2025 10:30 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
but I never finished it.

None.

Lynn

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On 12/08/25 03:30, James Nicoll wrote:

2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
but I never finished it.

The Stephenson, (unfinished and forgotten), the brilliant 5 star
Reynolds tale of generation ships, (most in hibernation), and the 4 star McAuley. Gardens of the Sun, the second in MacAuley's Quiet War trilogy,
was just as good, but the resolution in the third, In the Mouth of the
Whale, was a disappointment for me.
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On 8/11/25 11:30 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

2009: The Horrible Histories TV show debuts, Britons are treated to a Giles-worthy winter, and police decline to investigate the cash for
influence incident so that they might better focus on the custard-tossing scandal rocking the nation.

Which 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

The Stephenson, the Reynolds, the Tepper, and I did start the McAuley
but I never finished it.

Just the Reynolds, and just this past January, too. It was great.
- Tony
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