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The Quiet War
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78(8)
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Published by Pyr on September 22, 2009
First Published by Gollancz in 2008
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Review Rating: 80
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[...] this first novel suggests that we are looking at a work that demonstrates how fresh, relevant and engaging the great imaginative sweep of planetary sf can be.
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Incandescence
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60(9)
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Published by Night Shade Books on July 16, 2008
First Published by Gollancz in 2008
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Review Rating: 60
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But where the story of the Splinter [A fragment of rock inhabited by some insectoid-like creatures] is told with care and detail and patience, the space opera is careless, ill-plotted, and fails to resolve any of the numerous threads of plot it sets up.
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Review Rating: 80
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For all that, the Northwest Smith stories have a raw power that makes them enduringly readable. They represent the peak of 1930s pulp fiction, and if their plot lines and two-fisted hero seem out of place compared to today's fiction, that also makes them fascinatingly different.
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Review Rating: 60
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No, I have to conclude that these stories, the good (by Beagle, Morrissette, Link, Baker) and the indifferent, represent a wide and appealingly idiosyncratic perspective on fantasy.
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UFO in Her Eyes
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66(3)
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Published by Chatto & Windus on January 01, 2009
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Review Rating: 80
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It is a slim novella, easy to read and charming in its manner, but it packs a disturbing punch.
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Review Rating: 80
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Treat it as what it is, a satire on the American military mind and the cheaper aspects of American popular culture, and this is a very funny book indeed. Just don't try to peer too far below the surface.
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The Last Theorem
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65(6)
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Published by Del Rey on August 18, 2009
First Published by HarperVoyager in 2008
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Cyberabad Days
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83(9)
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Published by Gollancz on October 08, 2009
First Published by Pyr in 2009
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Review Rating: 80
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[...] it is the piece that captures, better than any of the other stories, better even than the novel, River of Gods, to which this volume is a welcome pendant, exactly what it is that makes Ian McDonald's vision of near-future India so exciting and so right.
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