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Galaxy 666
(Science Fiction)
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20(1)
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Published by Arcadia House on January 01, 1968
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Review Rating: 20
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...Fanthorpe's little opus is often a wonder to behold in its own transcendent realms of suck.
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The Number of the Beast
(Science Fiction)
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20(2)
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Published by New English Library on January 01, 1980
First Published by Columbine in 1980
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Review Rating: 20
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Terrible. Simply terrible. Robert Heinlein's The Number of the Beast -- eagerly anticipated as his big comeback after he'd sat out the whole of the 1970's following I Will Fear No Evil -- isn't just bad. It's stupefyingly, dizzyingly bad.
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The Recollection
(Science Fiction)
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53(3)
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Published by Solaris on August 30, 2011
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Review Rating: 40
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Unfortunately in The Recollection, [Powell] makes unwise storytelling choices at key moments that result in what Alfred Hitchcock called "fridge logic," referring to that moment, after the movie's over and you're getting a snack from the fridge, that it occurs to you what you've just seen had a high bullshit quotient.
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Ship Breaker
(Young Adult Fantasy)
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85(6)
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Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers on May 01, 2010
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Review Rating: 80
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Through his storytelling art, [Paolo Bacigalupi] simply allows readers to become immersed in a dangerous and yet thrilling near-future that we can still, hopefully, avoid, assuming we ever stop being too stupid to work together in our species' best long-term interests.
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The Alchemist
(Fantasy)
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77(6)
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Published by Subterranean on January 31, 2011
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Review Rating: 70
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A short, sharp shock, The Alchemist is efficient, tense, unpredictable and exciting.
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Axis
(Science Fiction)
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60(1)
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Published by Tor Books on September 18, 2007
First Published by TOR Books,2007 in 2007
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Review Rating: 60
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...though it comes directly from its author's comfort zone, Axis is a worthy extension of Robert Charles Wilson's Hugo-winning original, introducing new elements of mystery to the inscrutable alien Hypotheticals, and offering just enough action and heart to offset the use of some stock characters and rather obvious religious allegory.
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Vortex
(Science Fiction)
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75(2)
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Published by Tor Books on July 05, 2011
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Review Rating: 70
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This is a trilogy that began in a burst of brilliance, but has now settled into "very good."
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The Silent Land
(Fantasy)
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76(6)
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Published by doubleday on March 22, 2011
First Published by Gollancz in 2004
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Review Rating: 70
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In summary, Graham Joyce's macabre, World Fantasy-nominated story sounds like a lazy compendium of clichés. In execution, it's a remarkably eerie and affecting dark fantasy that overcomes the familiarity of its tropes by framing itself as a story of love and commitment, and of taking stock of what is truly valuable and meaningful -- the deep personal bonds we create with our loved ones -- in life.
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Review Rating: 100
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Julian Comstock is the sort of thrilling and immersive novel that in Heinlein's day was called a future history. (It isn't steampunk.) It's a lush and rewarding reading experience with few equals in the genre.
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Heaven's Shadow
(Science Fiction)
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56(3)
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Published by Ace Hardcover on July 05, 2011
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Review Rating: 50
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As a novel, its clean, screenplay-inspired narrative efficiency -- in which you only get as much character development as you need to make sure everyone's roles are established, and the emphasis is on getting to the action as quickly as possible -- makes for a brisk and engrossing read, but an inescapably shallow one.
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