Silverhair (Baxter, Stephen. Mammoth Trilogy, Bk. 1.)
 Okay, but sort of depressing.: This was an okay book, but the whole auora of the story was a little depressing. The whole book your there watching these mammoths who are the last of there kind and don't know it. It doesn't feel good to watch almost every [... more]
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Transcendent (Destiny's Children)
Soaring idea shot down with logic errors: OK, I liked the IDEA of the book - the important guy in 2050 who is being studied ("witnessed") by a girl 500,000 years in the future. Of course he is someone important historically (why choose an [... more]
$7.99
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Firstborn (A Time Odyssey)
He did better alone...: As a lifelong fan of Sir Arthur, I admit to having lost my taste for his work since he collaborated with others. In one of his earlier collaborations, I could easily figure out what lines Clarke wrote, into the story written, [... more]
$25.95
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Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge
Great Anthology...a must for SF readers and writers...: I was able to read the ARC of this book prior to its release, and I was very, very pleased with the selections. I enjoyed 14/21 stories in this, with Robert Charles Wilson's, Paolo Bacigalupi's, [... more]
$15.98
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The Absolute at Large (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
All books by Capek are required reading for civilised person: Perhaps as a companion piece to War with the Newts this one should have been titled War with God, since this book attacks religious intolerance with the same gentle, sad, hilarious [... more]
$16.95
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Firstborn
He did better alone...: As a lifelong fan of Sir Arthur, I admit to having lost my taste for his work since he collaborated with others. In one of his earlier collaborations, I could easily figure out what lines Clarke wrote, into the story written, [... more]
$7.99
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Transcendent (Destiny's Children)
Soaring idea shot down with logic errors: OK, I liked the IDEA of the book - the important guy in 2050 who is being studied ("witnessed") by a girl 500,000 years in the future. Of course he is someone important historically (why choose an [... more]
$25.95
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Sunstorm (A Time Odyssey)
weak, counterintuitive, and left wing: an old civilization in a nearby star, recognizing that Earth will give rise to Energy craven Humans, plan Man's extinction by hurling a large planet into our Sun at 4 BC. That event caused electromagnetic [... more]
$7.99
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Manifold: Space
Amazon.com Review: Stephen Baxter follows up his Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee Manifold: Time with the second book in the Manifold series, Manifold: Space. In this novel, former shuttle pilot and astronaut Reid Malenfant meets his destiny once again in [... more]
$7.99
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The Time Ships
Amazon.com Review: What if the time machine from H.G. Wells' classic novel of the same name had fallen into government hands? That's the question that led Stephen Baxter to create this modern-day sequel, which combines a basic Wellsian premise with a [... more]
$14.45
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Conqueror: Time's Tapestry Book Two (Time's Tapestry)
a fabulous fictionalized account: As predicted by the the Menologium of the Blessed Isolde Prophecy, invincible Rome is no more especially in the remote areas like Britannia (see EMPEROR); gone by AD 409. These nine stanzas, written on parchment in the [... more]
$24.95
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Weaver: Time's Tapestry, Book Four
Shockingly Disappointing: Having read the series as they were released, I was anxious to read this concluding book. Emperor, Conqueror, Navigator were subtle and interesting as Baxter melded history with a sci-fi theme with the prospect of 'something' [... more]
$24.95
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