From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 2/12/25 05:13, James Nicoll wrote:   
   > 2024: Scutigera coleoptrata become established in the UK, a Trident   
   > missile suffers performance anxiety during a test and refuses to leave   
   > its sub, and Labour sweeps to victory in the General Election, with   
   > surprising little effect on the subsequent frequency of cruel and   
   > vindictive legislation.   
   >   
   > Which 2024 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?   
   > In Ascension by Martin MacInnes   
   > Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah   
   > Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner   
   > Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh   
   > The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler   
   > The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan   
   >   
   > I've read the last three, which was superhandy for the html on   
   > DreamWidth. No danger of forgetting the .   
      
   In 2023, I enjoyed _The Mountain in the Sea_ by Ray Nayler in which   
   communication between brains which see things differently in order to   
   survive is seriously considered in a first contact situation where the   
   alien brain is not from space but an evolved group of octopi in our   
   distant future. The book was far more than that, a fascinating dystopia   
   with plenty of, conflict, action, differing characters on different   
   rungs of wealth, social and political ladders.   
      
   There is a brilliant review here:   
   https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/18/the-mountain-in-th   
   -sea-by-ray-nayler-how-to-speak-octopus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)