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Category: Printed Book
Steele- and I'm sure many of you- are space enthusiasts; ...
Reviewed: Orbital Decay - Allen Steele
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Created: 19/03/01
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The gulf in character between the superpolished hypermen of ...
Reviewed: Dorsai - Gordon Dickson
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Created: 19/03/01
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Perhaps not quite second in line for the bin, but pretty clo ...
Reviewed: A Heroine of the World - Tanith Lee
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Created: 19/03/01
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refreshing change to find a SF society cast as a going conce ...
Reviewed: The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
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Created: 19/03/01
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The best I can say is that parts of it read like early Micha ...
Reviewed: The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
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Created: 19/03/01
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almost makes me regret not picking him up much sooner
Reviewed: Distress - Greg Egan
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Created: 19/03/01
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Cordwainer Smith's stories in one fat, comprehension-bog ...
Reviewed: Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith
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Created: 19/03/01
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repugnant, a failure of characterisation beyond the bounds o ...
Reviewed: River of Dust - Alexander Jablokov
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Created: 19/03/01
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1984 would be a much more plausible result than this sociali ...
Reviewed: The Cassini Division - Ken MacLeod
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Created: 19/03/01
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a ramble on the mechanics of SETI and some unspeakably paran ...
Reviewed: Contact - Carl Sagan
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Created: 19/03/01
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The clarity and terror of the vision is incredible
Reviewed: The Death Guard - Phillip Chadwick
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Created: 19/03/01
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a novel of contemporary science coming across the extremely ...
Reviewed: Cosm - Gregory Benford
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Created: 19/03/01
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As engineering, extremely impressive; as literature, grossly ...
Reviewed: Ringworld - Larry Niven
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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
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Created: 19/03/01
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a version of Kafka genetically reengineered to be able to se ...
Reviewed: Memoirs of A Space Traveller - Stanislaw Lem
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Created: 19/03/01
Last Updated: 19/03/01

This is a wild, hilarious ride,
Reviewed: Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
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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
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Created: 08/03/01
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One of the best realised and most workable nanotech economie ...
Reviewed: The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
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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
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Created: 08/03/01
Last Updated: 08/03/01

Heinlein; was Captain Bob really a fascist
Reviewed: Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
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Created: 08/03/01
Last Updated: 08/03/01

Only Forward is so good, I'm slightly afraid of it.
Reviewed: Only Forwards - Michael Marshall Smith
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Created: 08/03/01
Last Updated: 08/03/01

Michael Moorcock strikes again
Reviewed: Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
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Created: 15/11/00
Last Updated: 17/11/00

the second of the initial Foundation trilogy, and to be blun ...
Reviewed: Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
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Created: 14/11/00
Last Updated: 17/11/00

What is there that is new can be said about it? a very great ...
Reviewed: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
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Created: 14/11/00
Last Updated: 17/11/00

If written now, I suspect it would sink without trace.
Reviewed: Foundation - Isaac Asimov
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Created: 14/11/00
Last Updated: 17/11/00

It is supposed to be a Vietnam allegory - Haldeman served th ...
Reviewed: The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
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Created: 14/11/00
Last Updated: 17/11/00

one of the same proud lineage that had it's birth in Tho ...
Reviewed: Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon
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Created: 14/11/00
Last Updated: 17/11/00

a very odd compilation of the four Okie novels Blish wrote- ...
Reviewed: Cities in Flight - James Blish
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Created: 14/11/00
Last Updated: 17/11/00