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I like to look at online real estate listings to see how people use interior spaces. I've come to the conclusions that:

A: Few people use more than 2000 square feet effectively. Above that, they seem to run out of ideas about how to use each room*.
B: Lots of houses have gratuitous features whose purpose seems to be to make them unusable to mobility impaired people.
C: (this is the stupid one) Townhouses are fine but I hate the idea of a duplex. For some reason, having to cooperate with 50 people bothers me more than having to get along with one specific person or family.

* More libraries is always the right answer.

There was a place for sale just up the road from me whose entire basement was given over to sturdy-looking bookcases.
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1999: Both the new Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales have their first meetings, the Millennium Dome (certainly not a name that will rapidly date) is completed, and hard-working programmers strive to limit the effects of the Millennium Bug, unaware success will be rewarded with mass amnesia.


Poll #33190 Clarke Award Finalists 1999
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31


Which 1999 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
9 (29.0%)

Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
3 (9.7%)

Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
14 (45.2%)

The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
24 (77.4%)

The Extremes by Christopher Priest
4 (12.9%)

Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs by Peter Delacorte
0 (0.0%)



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

Which 1999 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod

The Extremes by Christopher Priest
Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs by Peter Delacorte
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It's not about winning, it's about doing your best! And also winning!

Five SFF Works About Contests and Competition
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For Pride Month, an assortment of LGBTQ+-themed tabletop roleplaying games.

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blood work results in. I am immune to measles, mumps, and some other stuff I didn't not. Not Hep A or B, though.

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