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Faraday's Orphans (Ace Science Fiction)
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Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥ List Price: $13.00
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Having glimpsed at N. Lee Wood's "Looking for the Mahdi" years ago, I was delighted to take a look at her second novel, "Faraday's Orphans" (The title is a bit misleading, though it refers to the magnetic collapse of American civilization caused by "The Shift" sometime in the 21st Century.). It is a spellbinding tale set in a largely wild, untamed nort... »
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Master of None
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Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥ List Price: $14.95
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Some SF books are brilliant in both their storytelling and in their examinations of big questions, such as the role we each play in our societies. There are some well-known examinations of gender roles (such as the Left Hand of Darkness) and the workings of matriarchal societies (Tepper wrote a good one, whose name I can't recall at the moment). Master... »
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Looking for the Mahdi
Although some of the sections Lee adds to set up the political climate of the book's fictional Middle Eastern country bored me, It was still a fascinating... »
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Bloodrights
I loved Faraday's Orphans. I was surprised at how bad this was. There's scarcely an original bone in the body of this pseudo-medieval, lumberingly written... »
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