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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

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Tags: genetics scifi

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Description: 1/26/2005

She consistently comes up with things I would not have guessed - it's1/26/2005

She consistently comes up with things I would not have guessed - it's nice reading non-formulaic scifi.

Needed more Miles though!...

2006-01-27

 

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Type: fiction

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Status: disliked

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Author: Forward

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Tags: scifi

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Description: 12/31/2005

omg the cheese. it's like red mars, if red mars sucked.
12/31/2005

omg the cheese. it's like red mars, if red mars sucked.

The writing just isn't very good. It's like someone rolled up some scifi rollplaying characters, and had 5 or 6 science points to hit, and wrote science fiction by numbers. The science points were ones not normally seen, and were a little to thoroughly explained, but that's the best bit....

2006-01-02

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

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Tags: scifi

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Description: 12/16/2005

clever, but a little too whiny at times - fills in some more of the gaps.12/16/2005

clever, but a little too whiny at times - fills in some more of the gaps. I prefer the Admiral as well.. ...

2005-12-17

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

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Tags: scifi

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Description: 11/20/2005

What happens when you're trying to be two different people - who11/20/2005

What happens when you're trying to be two different people - who happen to look identical and should never be in the same place at the same time? She really takes on Miles' dual identity, and I think she does a good job of it. I appreicate that she uses the history she sets up and she seems to be good at keeping it consistent. ...

2005-11-20

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Type: fiction

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Status: favorite

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut

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Tags: comedy scifi religion

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Description: 11/14/2005

Oooh. Probably my favorite from him. I love Bokonism - "If you don't11/14/2005

Oooh. Probably my favorite from him. I love Bokonism - "If you don't understand how a successful religion can be based entirely on lies, then you won't understand this book." And ice-9 makes total sense to me (though I didn't do so well in chemistry.) What can you expect from humanity based on our track record?
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2005-11-15

 

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

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Tags: scifi novellas

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Description: 10/30/2005

three short novellas - the middle one had some weirdness I could do without10/30/2005

three short novellas - the middle one had some weirdness I could do without (this woman and sex! so odd about it) but I really liked the rest of it...

2005-10-30

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

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Tags: genetics scifi

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Description: 10/18/2005

She's getting better and better at the hard scifi and the unexpected10/18/2005

She's getting better and better at the hard scifi and the unexpected heros. The sappiness is still occasionally a bit much. But the second half of this was totally gripping. ...

2005-10-19

 

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Type: fiction

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Status: disliked

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Author: James White

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Tags: scifi

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Description: 10/1/2005

More Sector General stuff.. Ok, but I think I'm done with this now.10/1/2005

More Sector General stuff.. Ok, but I think I'm done with this now. Makes me want to read some good 60's scifi...

2005-10-02

 

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Type: fiction

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Status: disliked

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Author: James White

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Tags: scifi short_stories

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Description: 9/30/2005

I'm going to update this to neutral as soon as I get the chance. I9/30/2005

I'm going to update this to neutral as soon as I get the chance. I think this guy has some really weird neuroses about morals and authority. Is it really so likely that suns go nova with inhabited planets around them and the inhabitents not noticing, and the uber-police have to evacuate them? is it really so likely that we need TWO stories about it?...

2005-10-01

 

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: James White

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Tags: scifi

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Description: 9/26/2005

scifi as closed room mystery. originally published as a serial - it's9/26/2005

scifi as closed room mystery. originally published as a serial - it's neat to see how that forces things to happen at set intervals instead of letting things drag on....

2005-09-28