Clarke Award Finalists 2000

[james_davis_nicoll]

2000: The theft of an Enigma Machine comes too late to play a significant role in World War Two, Sellafield highlight British dedication to nuclear saafety, and the Conservatives, informed polling has them 2% ahead of Labour, discover that they are actually trailing by 13%.

Poll #33234 Clarke Award Finalists 2000

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 54

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Which 2000 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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Distraction by Bruce Sterling
11 (20.4%)

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
40 (74.1%)

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
42 (77.8%)

Silver Screen by Justina Robson
8 (14.8%)

The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
4 (7.4%)

Time by Stephen Baxter
11 (20.4%)

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

Which 2000 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Distraction by Bruce Sterling
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Silver Screen by Justina Robson
The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Time by Stephen Baxter

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

In the States, "Time" was called "Manifold: Time" (I think)

[coth]

My results are skewed this time by the fact that I was a Judge for the Award that year.

[oh6]

I didn't read all of Distraction, but my engagement from previous polls has been scant enough that I'm counting it.

[patrick_morris_miller]

I read it. It chiefly stands out in my memory for not being The Zenith Angle, which was the point at which I gave up on Sterling.

[dwight_benjamin_thieme]

First time I've hit 100% in many years. Whatever happened to Bruce Sterling, BTW? He used to be cool.

[neowolf2]

He got old?

[patrick_morris_miller]

Can't be that simple; Heavy Weather was pretty good but The Difference Engine was a stinker.

[chrysostom]

Well, that was a co-production.

[neowolf2]

The story of the Enigma machine theft:

https://drenigma.org/2017/10/16/the-stolen-enigma-machine/

[mikeda]

Again, none.

[rpresser]

I really tried to like Cryptonomicon, but failed. I've never read anything by Stephenson since.

[jbwoodford]

Anathem was when Stephenson fell off my reading list; Cryptonomicon had enough good bits scattered here and there to make reading it worth my time, though.

[patrick_morris_miller]

For me it was REAMDE with its "just because right wing militias want to kill you doesn't mean they're not good people" text that couldn't even be bothered to be sub.