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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely amazing and short too.  This was the first Baxter book I read.  Here is a physicist who knows the art of spinning a story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not quite working for me.. book one of the Xeelee sequence - an alternate dimension where gravity works very differently. Humans living on the 'raft' struggle to survive several generations after their ancestors arrived. The Scientist class is bent on preserving knowledge but even they cannot help a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36457717">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a lot like Niven's early works.  Interesting science drives the story, but there is still some decent character development and such.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious 70's &quot;what-if&quot; style sf]]></body>
    
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