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SAILING BRIGHT ETERNITY (A Bantam Spectra Book)
Amazon.com — Thank God it's over! After struggling for months, I finally got through the Galactic Center "epic" (and I use the word loosely) by Gregory Benford. To say that the series was a major let-down doesn't half-cover it. I've read a lot of ...More…
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Great Sky River (A Bantam Spectra Book)
Amazon.com — Humans In Decline This is the third in Benford's "Galactic Center" series, and the first of the novels to actually merit the name. The other books are "In the Ocean of Night" (1977) and "Across the Sea of Suns" (1984), ...More…
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The Chase of the Golden Meteor (Bison Frontiers of ...
Amazon.com — A book by Jules and Michel Verne, Father and Son It's happened again. A reputable publisher, Bison Books, distributed through the University of Nebraska Press, has attractively reprinted a Jules Verne book whole from the first British edition, on that ...More…
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Swift Thoughts
Amazon.com — Highly Intellectual Swift Thoughts (2002) is a collection of twenty-four SF short stories. These short works were originally published between 1973 and 2001 in a variety of venues. While most first appeared in the science fiction (and fantasy) magazines ...More…
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At the Earth's Core (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
Amazon.com — Through Time and Space With Edgar Rice Burroughs There have been a number of well written citiques of scientific blunders in the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs. David Langford (1982) makes a convincing case that the notion of a hollow Earth had long ...More…
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Alternate Empires (What Might Have Been, Vol. 1)
Amazon.com — A collection of "What If" stories about Alternative Empires From the Introduction to ""What Might Have Been: Volume I" that the first example of what we know call "alternative history" (the genre formerly and also known ...More…
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Man-Kzin Wars VI
Amazon.com — Kinsbury's novella is the highlight of this episode. The Man/Kzin Wars have been full of dering-do but light on character development and cultural insights. Donald Kingsbury remedies this in "The Heroic Myth of Lt. Nora Argenine",the novella ...More…
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Sailing Bright Eternity
Amazon.com — Thank God it's over! After struggling for months, I finally got through the Galactic Center "epic" (and I use the word loosely) by Gregory Benford. To say that the series was a major let-down doesn't half-cover it. I've read a lot of ...More…
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In the Ocean of Night (Galactic Center, Volume 1)
Amazon.com — Serious attempt gone seriously wrong Wow! in a very bad sense. What was heralded as Benford's flagship series turned out to be a slow boat to nowhere. Only about 10 pages are actually worth reading and are interesting: an alien intelligence flies near ...More…
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Great Sky River (Galactic Center)
Amazon.com — Humans In Decline This is the third in Benford's "Galactic Center" series, and the first of the novels to actually merit the name. The other books are "In the Ocean of Night" (1977) and "Across the Sea of Suns" (1984), ...More…
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Far Futures
Amazon.com — One of the best anthologies ever published I'm beginning to suspect that the Kirkus review service pays its people by the mudball. Two of the stories in this book, Anderson's and Haldeman's, ended up in Dozois' "Best SF of the ...More…