Clarke Award Finalists 1997

[james_davis_nicoll]

1997: The UK wins Eurovision, the BBC foolishly embraces that passing fad known as the internet, and Tony Blair wins a razor-thin 179 seat majority.

Poll #33137 Clarke Award Finalists 1997

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Which 1997 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
3 (8.8%)

Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
19 (55.9%)

Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S. Tepper
11 (32.4%)

Looking for the Mahdi by N. Lee Wood
4 (11.8%)

The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
13 (38.2%)

Voyage by Stephen Baxter
5 (14.7%)

Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.

Which 1997 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S. Tepper
Looking for the Mahdi by N. Lee Wood
The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
Voyage by Stephen Baxter

Comments

[patrick_morris_miller]

I have technically been reading Blue Mars for the past 27 years - I was a few chapters in when something else came by I wanted to read more, fully intending to get back to that BM, but instead it just got pushed onto the stack and remained buried along with numerous other books, like a layer of Troy except it's never been dug down to. On occasion I consider rereading Primary Color Mars from the start but I've never actually decided to do so.

Fucking windmills.

[mikeda]

Still none.

I think I've read some elements of the series that "Blue Mars" is a part of that were originally published as shorter works.

[mecurtin]

I haven't read *any* of them.

Not coincidentally, Kid #2 was 2.

[jreynolds197]

Three of six, a new high!

[austin_dern]

I have read Voyage! Which was the first time I wanted to slap a Stephen Baxter book, although I admit, in that one, only in a couple parts.