From: jdnicoll@panix.com   
      
   2023: King Charles III is the most unpopular British King in the last   
   60-odd years, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Cabinet Secretary Simon   
   Case's comic routine is poorly received, and Sunak's government ushers   
   in a golden age of soaring STD rates.   
      
      
   Which 2023 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?   
   Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman   
   Metronome by Tom Watson   
   Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick   
   The Anomaly (translation of L'anomalie) by Hervé Le Tellier   
   The Coral Bones by E. J. Swift   
   The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard   
      
   Just two: the Kissick and the de Bodard.   
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