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Pirate Freedom (Sci Fi Essential Books)
Gene Wolfe
Tor Books, 2007
Wolfe is Wolfe
+ Confessions
+ Pirate Adventure! And Time-Travel! And more!
+ a nautical tale...
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The Court of the Air
Stephen Hunt
Tor Books, 2008
exciting fantasy thriller
+ "They think they are riding a tiger, but the tiger is riding them."
+ A fresh and original Victorian-inspired fantasy
+ Nicely done
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Kingdom Beyond the Waves, The
Stephen Hunt
HarperVoyager, 2008
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Spook Country
William Gibson
Berkley Trade, 2008
Brilliant, but not perfect
+ The Future is Now and Gibson is still there!
The good: This book has some brilliant characters which ultimately intertwine around a caper based climax at the end. The writing is clever and a joy to read, and paints a very realistic and plausible world, once you get past the first chapter, which was like another reviewer mentioned like wading ...
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Making Money (Discworld)
Terry Pratchett
Harper, 2007
An absurd and hilariously funny story
+ Awesome
+ A great book!
+ Pratchett just keeps getting better!
+ Hilarious.
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The H-bomb Girl
Stephen Baxter
Faber and Faber, 2007
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Thirteen
Ballantine Books, 2007
3 X C 3 L L 3 N T !!
+ Nice change of pace from Morgan
This dark cyberpunk novel is another proof that RICHARD MORGAN is the cutting edge of the genre. In a not so distant future, Mars has been colonized and genetic altered humans have been created, used up and then discarded into the margins of society - with prejudice. Hunting down renegade Thirteens ...
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Last Argument of Kings (First Law: Book Three)
Joe Abercrombie
Pyr, 2008
Confess!
+ Character driven, great readiing
+ A wonderful effort
+ A Grand Finale
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Brasyl
Ian McDonald
Pyr, 2007
Brilliant stuff
+ Riveting stories perfect for science fiction collections
Brasyl is a work of true brilliance! If William Gibson will still penning mainstream science fiction works than this is what he would have evolved into.
Never has South America seemed so real as in this fictional cyberpunkish take on what it might end up as.
I love it. If you have any taste, ...
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day 1)
Patrick Rothfuss
DAW, 2008
Absolutely Brilliant...
+ sure, I liked it
+ Excellent
+ Brilliant, innovative, compelling.
+ Why I love this book
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Victory of Eagles (Temeraire, Book 5)
Naomi Novik
Del Rey, 2008
I can has copyeditor?
+ The series continues well
+ Solid continuation of the series
+ Solid continuation of the series -- the main characters are as intriguing as ever
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Halting State (Ace Science Fiction)
Charles Stross
Ace, 2008
Simply awesome
+ Halting Read
+ A really pleasant surprise
best book about the coming future and what physical and digital systems will look like and how we will interact with them
Read this book!!
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Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill
Harper, 2008
An Impressive Debut
+ Really good!
+ Awesome Ghost story
+ heart shaped box
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Endless Things: A Part of Aegypt
John Crowley
Small Beer Press, 2007
The transforming power of the novel
+ A multifaceted, humanizing, and magnificent sendoff to an epic saga.
+ magik
+ Magic, Writers Block & a fumble
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Halting State (Ace Science Fiction)
Charles Stross
Ace, 2008
Simply awesome
+ Halting Read
+ A really pleasant surprise
best book about the coming future and what physical and digital systems will look like and how we will interact with them
Read this book!!
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