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I was once a reviewer for ORBzine [back when it was the "RASSM Magazine"].

And now I'm here. 'Nuff said, really. :)

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Steele- and I'm sure many of you- are space enthusiasts; ... Reviewed: Orbital Decay - Allen Steele Category: Printed Book Rating:	Useful View the ratings	45 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
The gulf in character between the superpolished hypermen of ... Reviewed: Dorsai - Gordon Dickson Category: Printed Book Rating:	View the ratings	123 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
Perhaps not quite second in line for the bin, but pretty clo ... Reviewed: A Heroine of the World - Tanith Lee Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	67 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
refreshing change to find a SF society cast as a going conce ... Reviewed: The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	58 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
The best I can say is that parts of it read like early Micha ... Reviewed: The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	33 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
almost makes me regret not picking him up much sooner Reviewed: Distress - Greg Egan Category: Printed Book Rating:	Somewhat useful View the ratings	35 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
Cordwainer Smith's stories in one fat, comprehension-bog ... Reviewed: Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	20 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
repugnant, a failure of characterisation beyond the bounds o ... Reviewed: River of Dust - Alexander Jablokov Category: Printed Book Rating:	View the ratings	9 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
1984 would be a much more plausible result than this sociali ... Reviewed: The Cassini Division - Ken MacLeod Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	19 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
a ramble on the mechanics of SETI and some unspeakably paran ... Reviewed: Contact - Carl Sagan Category: Printed Book Rating:	Useful View the ratings	116 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
The clarity and terror of the vision is incredible Reviewed: The Death Guard - Phillip Chadwick Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	48 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
a novel of contemporary science coming across the extremely ... Reviewed: Cosm - Gregory Benford Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	19 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
As engineering, extremely impressive; as literature, grossly ... Reviewed: Ringworld - Larry Niven Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	35 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
space opera on the grand scale, without any trace of self-mo ... Reviewed: Triplanetary - E.E. Doc Smith Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	34 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
a version of Kafka genetically reengineered to be able to se ... Reviewed: Memoirs of A Space Traveller - Stanislaw Lem Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	36 Created: 19/03/01 Last Updated: 19/03/01
Steerpike is not the hero, he's a virus Reviewed: Gormenghast Category: TV Program Rating:	Useful View the ratings	90 Created: 08/03/01 Last Updated: 08/03/01
This is a wild, hilarious ride, Reviewed: Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	64 Created: 08/03/01 Last Updated: 08/03/01
There are at least two sides to Pratchett; the high-falutin& ... Reviewed: Terry Pratchett in general Category: Printed Book Rating:	Useful View the ratings	13 Created: 08/03/01 Last Updated: 08/03/01
One of the best realised and most workable nanotech economie ... Reviewed: The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	28 Created: 08/03/01 Last Updated: 08/03/01
I'm by no means sure that this is worth your reading. Reviewed: The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe Category: Printed Book Rating:	Very useful View the ratings	83 Created: 08/03/01 Last Updated: 08/03/01

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