BLUE MARS (Mars Trilogy) (Robinson, Kim Stanley. Mars ...
 A satisfying conclusion: First, the faults: As other reviewers note, this book needed a better editor. As with the first two books of the series, there are commas in sentences that they don't belong in, and this can get frustrating. There are also some [... more]
$22.95
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Forty Signs of Rain
No rain in Forty Signs of Rain: In a 394 page book titled Forty Signs of Rain, shouldn't there be some sort of rain event, however small, BEFORE page 354?! What's up with that? If you buy this book looking forward to some page turning enviromental [... more]
$7.99
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Sixty Days and Counting
Fascinating: In Sixty Days and Counting, Robinson closes his stupendous climate trilogy. In this series, Robinson gives us a fascinating look into very realistic scenarios of politics and science in a not too-far-away future. But what gives these books [... more]
$25.00
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Red Mars (Mars trilogy)
Amazon.com Review: The first novel in the astounding trilogy, Red Mars chronicles the lives of the first arrivals to Mars. The planet that the settlers find is empty of life and many of the pioneers want to begin changing the ecosystem right away to be [... more]
$16.50
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Forty Signs of Rain
No rain in Forty Signs of Rain: In a 394 page book titled Forty Signs of Rain, shouldn't there be some sort of rain event, however small, BEFORE page 354?! What's up with that? If you buy this book looking forward to some page turning enviromental [... more]
$37.20
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Forty Signs of Rain
No rain in Forty Signs of Rain: In a 394 page book titled Forty Signs of Rain, shouldn't there be some sort of rain event, however small, BEFORE page 354?! What's up with that? If you buy this book looking forward to some page turning enviromental [... more]
$25.00
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Sixty Days and Counting
Fascinating: In Sixty Days and Counting, Robinson closes his stupendous climate trilogy. In this series, Robinson gives us a fascinating look into very realistic scenarios of politics and science in a not too-far-away future. But what gives these books [... more]
$7.99
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Antarctica
Amazon.com Review: In the near future, Wade Norton has been sent to Antarctica by Senator Phil Chase to investigate rumors of environmental sabotage. He arrives on the frozen continent and immediately begins making contact with the various scientific and [... more]
$24.95
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Pacific Edge
Weak ending keeps it from being a great book: The theme of community that was touched on early in the first novel is fully developed here -- socially, economically, historically, politically, and even romantically. The story is primarily about a threat [... more]
$18.95
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Forty Signs of Rain
No rain in Forty Signs of Rain: In a 394 page book titled Forty Signs of Rain, shouldn't there be some sort of rain event, however small, BEFORE page 354?! What's up with that? If you buy this book looking forward to some page turning enviromental [... more]
$14.45
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The Gold Coast: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych)
Finding a Lever: This book does not have any big bangs or soaring flights of imagination, instead it is a very straight forward linear extrapolation of trends present in the mid-eighties involving the military-industrial complex and the urbanization of [... more]
$15.95
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Fifty Degrees Below
Wow, am I pissed at this book!: I slogged through all 400-odd of its pages, waiting for something, anything to happen -- and it never does! The book has no climax; it doesn't end, it simply stops. I loved Robinson's MARS trilogy, and I tolerated FORTY [... more]
$7.99
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