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Review Rating: 100
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I found the book stunningly well-paced and a ferocious page-turner, building up the most well-realised SF setting in the genre's history with verve and aplomb. The Confederation is flawed and sometimes corrupt, but above all it is worth saving, unusual in a genre all-too-often dominated by dystopias that probably deserve to be annihilated.
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Review Rating: 60
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New Spring is readable enough and has some points of interest for major Wheel of Time fans, but it is also packed with unnecessary padding. Nevertheless, the original novella remains readable and compelling, and despite its short length still raises the overall quality of this book.
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Review Rating: 90
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I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt it was a logical extension of the premise, and if you can swallow the premise of the reality dysfunction itself than what happens next shouldn't pose any problems.
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Review Rating: 80
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It's a tribute to Morgan's writing that this is just about the only flaw I could find in the book. Otherwise it's a clever, often exceptionally violent trawl through the underworld of a far-future San Francisco, taking in heavy torture and a heavy bodycount along the way. A strong stomach is certainly recommended for some parts of the book.
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Review Rating: 90
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If Altered Carbon was a detective story and Broken Angels was a war story, Woken Furies is more of a political story and offers more of a glimpse into Kovacs' mindset, brought into sharp relief as he encounters old friends and enemies on his home planet.
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Pushing Ice
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85(2)
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Published by Ace on May 29, 2007
First Published by Stanford Univ Pr in 1974
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Review Rating: 90
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There is a strong similarity here to Clarke's Rama Cycle, but Reynolds makes more interesting and focused points in considerably less time and pages than Clarke's earlier work, and the characters he uses to achieve that goal are considerably more interesting.
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Review Rating: 30
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From the start it was a tough read, not because of dense prose but because the story was so bland I had a hard time staying focused on it. The characters are all pretty shallow and tend to blur into one another, making following them and their adventures difficult.
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City of Thieves
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90(1)
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Published by Sceptre on June 01, 2009
First Published by Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks in 2008
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Review Rating: 90
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City of Thieves is a splendid, gripping read with a dark sense of gallows humour and some vivid but occasionally disturbing imagery. Well-recommended.
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Broken Angels
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75(7)
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Published by Del Rey on March 02, 2004
First Published by Gollancz in 2003
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Review Rating: 90
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Broken Angels is a fine SF novel, with a sophisticated and well-developed storyline featuring flawed and in some cases broken protagonists who are all too human.
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