The Bantam Spectra Sampler
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Tides of Light (A Bantam Spectra Book)
Big concept science fiction: The "Great Sky River" series eschews the traditional science fiction device of portraying human beings as creatures apparently inferior to greater alien intelligences, yet having some indefinable superiority. How [... more]
$27.00
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Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
Amazon.com Review: From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of [... more]
$15.00
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Games of Command (Bantam Spectra Book)
Not for intelligent adults: This book is hyped as a space opera romance. I agree: a bad space opera and a worse romance. The space opera starts with a bunch of disjointed plots and actions that get tied together in the end by the discovery of the bad [... more]
$6.99
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Lords of the Sky (A Bantam Spectra Book)
In a Word, Lousy: As a rule, whenever the main character's horse has more personality than the main character, you know you have problems. There isn't anything that is glaringly wrong with "Lords of the Sky", but there isn't much that's right [... more]
$29.00
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The Tranquility Wars (Bantam Spectra Book)
Shallow and boring: I had forgotten what I didn't like about Lee's Rama books until I began reading this. The Rama books were all full of underdeveloped, oversexed characters. This book was heavily laced with gratuitous sex and nothing but gratuitous sex. [... more]
$23.95
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Holy Fire (Bantam Spectra Book)
Amazon.com Review: In an era when life expectancies stretch 100 years or more and adhering to healthy habits is the only way to earn better medical treatments, ancient "post humans" dominate society with their ubiquitous wealth and power. By [... more]
$7.99
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ILLUSTRATED STAR WARS UNIVERSE, THE (Bantam Spectra Book)
Entertaining travel guide to the Star Wars galaxy.....: Take the artistic talents of acclaimed production artist Ralph McQuarrie and the writing skills of prolific author Kevin J. Anderson (The Jedi Academy Trilogy) and you get The Illustrated Star Wars [... more]
$35.00
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Starfire (Bantam Spectra Book)
Amazon.com Review: The sky is falling--again. Following up on 1998's excellent Aftermath, Starfire subjects planet Earth to yet another cosmic blast from the Alpha Centauri supernova. But while the blast that hit Earth in Aftermath simply cooked the [... more]
$13.95
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An Accidental Goddess (Bantam Spectra)
Great romance interaction in a sci-fi setting - good stuff!: An Accidental Goddess was the first Linnea Sinclair book I read. I loved the writing style, Ms. Sinclair's sense of humor and the romantic interaction. My first comment to the friend who had [... more]
$6.99
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The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl (Bantam Spectra Book)
I really wanted to like this: I really wanted to love this novel. I like Pratt's short fiction. I love the cover: the image, the title, and the tagline: "If primal evil wants California, it's going to have to go through her first. . . ." It [... more]
$12.00
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Miracle and Other Christmas Stories (Bantam Spectra Book)
Amazon.com Review: Connie Willis loves Christmas. "I even like the parts most people hate--shopping in crowded malls and reading Christmas newsletters and seeing relatives and standing in baggage check-in lines at the airport. Okay, I lied. Nobody [... more]
$19.95
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