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    Mainline by Deborah Christian

    Must have been like finding a $20 bill in your pants pocket. I have done that before myself; found a book in the "read" pile that I just don't remember.
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    Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear (1992)

    This is one of my favorite Greg Beat books. I couldn't get into the first one though (I read this one first too). I thought the battle scenes were incredibly well done, and I looked the idea of the Benefactors distrust of their little monkey-children wards.
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    The Wire: Possibly the best TV show ever.

    Haven't seen Generation Kill yet. I heard it got a lot of kudos from critics, but I have yet to find anyone who has actually seen it and can give me the skinny. Oz was great entertainment. It started mocking itself in its second or third season, then got it's act back together by the end...
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    Books involving Gods as characters.

    To Rule in Hell, by Stephen Brust, and Job: A Comedy of Justice. By Robert Heinlein. The first is mostly angels, but Yahweh is an active character. He's also in Job, but let's say he plays a diminished role.
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    The Walking Dead

    My favorite comic ever, hands down. The compilations are cheap on Comicxology, if you are OK with electronic issues. I buy the series that way now, then get the yearly hardback for my collection.
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    Anyone Else Going to Reno?

    "HGI" = Hilton Garden Inn. I'm using miles to stay for free. I was just sayin that rooms are available. Can't wait for the con to get going!
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    The Stand, Complete & Uncut, by Stephen King

    Permalink: http://www.omphalosbookreviews.com/index.php/reviews/info/199 One of the first adult genre books that I ever read, back when I was eleven or so, was Stephen King's The Stand from 1978. I was a bit reluctant to pick it up at first because it was so big. At 750 pages it was bigger...
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    Anyone Else Going to Reno?

    Im going to Worldcon this year. Ill be coming from Sacramento and staying at the HGI. Ill be there from Wed morning until Saturday. Last I checked the hotel still had rooms available in the block they set aside. I wonder how busy it'll be?
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    Kevin J Anderson - Is he any good?

    You mean like Dan Brown novels?
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    City, by Clifford Simak

    In my informal surveys I found that while most everyone liked both books, Way Station was the favorite. Personally I liked City much more. That whole screwy Talisman thing in Way Station threw me off. Though Way Station is probably technically superior (City suffers a bit from the fix-up effect).
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    Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm

    I loved this book. I thought she did a great job making the clones seem strange. She messed up the scinence, but I don't particularly care. Still thought it was a fantastic book.
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    The Millennium, by Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair's The Millennium is by most definitions not really science fiction. To most it is a semi-autobiographical propaganda tool that Sinclair used to advocate for his own version of socialism and communal lifestyle. But since it's also a future history that relies on a few technological...
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    The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, edited by Gorgon Van Gelder

    A collection of short stories culled from the last sixty years of the fantastic Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. These stories were chosen by the current editor and owner of the publication, Gordon Van Gelder, and assembled here in anthology form as a celebration of the periodical's...
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    The Passage, by Justin Cronin

    The Passage, by Justin Cronin, is the latest to be published in a growing body of literary mainstream SF/Horror stories. It is the story of an apocalyptic plague of vampires that all but wipes out humanity, and the few tired but tough and resourceful humans who survive in the wilderness. In...
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    Greybeard, by Brian Aldiss

    The first time I ever read anything by Brian Aldiss I was in London. I was there for an extended "escape the States" vacation that actually turned into a working vacation coupled with as much hoboing as I could fit in. It was back in 1990 which doesn't feel like too long ago to me, at least...
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    Wastelands, edited by John Joseph Adams

    You should read Bailey's story in the Adams' Zombie anthology. I personally loved The End of the World As We Know It. That one, Death and Suffrage, is better.
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    The Patchwork Girl, by Larry Niven

    :eek: This is Greg's embarassed shame! I am so sorry, Ace. Until this moment I did not even notice that you had something there hidden under a spoiler tag. The only thing I thought you put there was "*spoiler alert*" Im looking at it this moment, and I still can barely tell that if I mouse...
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    The Patchwork Girl, by Larry Niven

    That actually was not a very constructive comment you put into my review there, Ace. I put an awful lot of work into those essays I write, and it would really be nice to see some more substantial comments. Anyway, since I absolutely did not reveal the result of the investigation, or what Gil...
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    I'm looking for a sci-fi book

    I think that's it too, pdurrant. There is a short story version too. The story is about how societies can go down one of two technological paths; one leads to easy and cheap FTL travel, and the other leads to what we have, which is no FTL but great technological leaps in other areas. Good story.
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    The Patchwork Girl, by Larry Niven

    The Patchwork Girl by Larry Niven is a 1980s short-novel entry in the author's Known Space sequence. This three-pronged story is basically a murder mystery set on the moon, but it also delves quite deeply into the legal arena, both legislative and judicial. The novel is fairly typical for a...
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