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  <default_description>Lutha Talstaff is sent to the remote, unpopulated planet Dinadh   with her young son and her lover, and soon realizes they are part of a   cosmic pattern that will alter their understanding of life, love, good,   and evil. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book sucked me in with my absolute favorite guilty-pleasure theme ever: Space Mystery.  Some big, creepy thing going on on some planet that people are set out to investigate.<br/><br/>I enjoyed it overall, the desire for Space Mystery was apeased, but the ending of the book was deeply unsettl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42982625">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ This is my third Tepper book, and I've noticed her writing takes at least a couple chapters to really sink into the story. The first few pages of her books seem to be a &quot;wtf?&quot; experience, but once she gets on a roll you can't take your eyes away. Her endings tend to be on the almost wacky...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47409791">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really quite enjoyed the vast majority of this book.  The characters are real, and the setting emerges from the characters' experience of it.  The world has just enough plausibility as a possible future to be quite thought provoking.  <br/><br/>Unfortunately, the gripping plot breaks down at the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69385114">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sheri Tepper is one of my favorite authors. This novel was original and detailed, but in some places I was confused as to what the scenery/creatures looked like. Thank goodness for Michael Whelan's cover art! :)<br/><br/>The ending was a little strange, even for such an outlandish world, but it wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55307995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't my favourite of hers. I enjoy her work. She is an author who has terrible summaries on the back of the book but is worth holding judgment until you read the book. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Looking at this reminds me that I am at least two Tepper books behind.]]></body>
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