Clarke Award Finalists 1998

[james_davis_nicoll]

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.

Poll #33168 Clarke Award Finalists 1998

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Which 1998 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
34 (81.0%)

Days by James Lovegrove
1 (2.4%)

Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
9 (21.4%)

Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
3 (7.1%)

The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper
16 (38.1%)

Titan by Stephen Baxter
8 (19.0%)

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

Which 1998 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Days by James Lovegrove
Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper
Titan by Stephen Baxter

Comments

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Russell was Xtian tosh, and the Baxter was much worse. I would not be surprised if I read the worst two of that set.

[kathmandu]

The Family Tree is the only one of those I read, and it was engaging.

[jreynolds197]

A whopping total of zero this time.

[mikeda]

None again.

[oh6]

Entirely unfamiliar with Jeff Noon, James Lovegrove, and Mary Doria Russell.

[patrick_morris_miller]

I wish I was entirely unfamiliar with Baxter.

[thomasyan]

I think on rasfw people generally weren't crazy about The Family Tree, but I actually quite liked it.

[fred_mouse]

I adore The Family Tree, although I don't actually think it is one of Tepper's better works. I have The Sparrow, but have never read it.

[elysdir]

Wow, I hadn’t heard of Midgley before. (But have now looked him up.) Yikes.

(Of that list, I’ve read only The Sparrow; don’t think I’ve heard of the others.)

[cgbookcat1]

The Family Tree is my personal favorite of Tepper's works as I love several of the characters. The actions of certain antagonists seem less overblown in this current political era.

[austin_dern]

Titan is one of the few books I ever wanted to throw violently away from me, but I was reading it on a bus and there was a risk that some innocent soul might pick it up and read it.