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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
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John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw's daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the stifling neo-Victorian society. But ... »
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Semper Mars: Book One of the Heritage Trilogy
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Not a bad story, as far as military sci-fi goes. I had a hard time getting past the "archeology" aspects of some of Mars' more controversial geographical features, but I'm like that sometimes.
I liked the fact that the "good guys" weren't supermen, and the "bad guys" were well portrayed as tools of their government, doing their bidding because t... »
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Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
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I had to take away one star from a story that should have been five.
The sci-fi part was awesome! The action and ideas are second to none and kept me reading. It's been a while since I picked up a book that was difficult to put down...then.
I have a teenage daughter and pre-teen son who both like reading my books but because a couple... »
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Dust
Elizabeth Bear has created a new spin on the multi-generational, planet-sized spaceship saga. Without spoiling the delicate suspense, the ship is crippled... »
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Against the Tide of Years
In Stirling's bestselling Island in the Sea of Time, modern Nantucket found itself trapped in the Bronze Age. In the sequel, Against the Tide of... »
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2001: A Space Odyssey
When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, afte... »
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Caves of Steel (Robot City)
When Stanislaw Lem famously castigated American SF writers for the very low quality of their books, it could well have been books like this one that he ha... »
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Broken Angels
Critics have compared Richard Morgan's first novel, Altered Carbon, to the classic hardboiled fiction of Raymond Chandler. The comparison doesn't ... »
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