From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/24/2025 8:30 AM, James Nicoll wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Zip, zip, zero.   
      
   No Murderbot, etc ?   
      
   Lynn   
      
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