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  <title><![CDATA[Prador Moon: A Novel Of The Polity]]></title>
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  <default-description>Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style. This original novel recounts the first contact between the aggressive Prador aliens, and the Polity Collective as it is forced to retool its society to a war footing. The overwhelming brute force of the Prador dreadnaughts causes several worlds and space stations to be overrun. Prador Moon follows the initial Polity defeats, to the first draws, and culminates in what might be the first Polity victory, told from the point of view of two unlikely heroes.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-day type="integer">29</original-publication-day>
  <original-publication-month type="integer">5</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2006</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Prador Moon: A Novel Of The Polity</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Neal Asher]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 08 09:49:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 08 09:53:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting &quot;first contact&quot; novel with an alien, hostile, alien race.  The social structure, the way in which the war is waged and understood between the two parties is very interesting.  How the species evolved drives how they see the war and that is really what drives how one determin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66645033">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49469325">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[sf nerds; people who eat their young]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 16 12:46:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 11 07:15:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Neal Asher's brand of SF is not for the squeamish.  Prador Moon is set within his Polity universe.  The Polity is the collective group of worlds which is run by AI and policed by Earth Central Security agents.  Unlike the first Polity novel, Gridlinked (which I've read), this one does not feature EC...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49469325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69066387">
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 27 05:27:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 03 05:08:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After having read Neal Asher's &quot;Cowl&quot; it felt so good to dig into fun, uncomplicated science fiction with daring battles, a dastardly villianous alien race, kick-ass weapons and starships, a larger-than-life hero and a plucky female heroine. &quot;Prador Moon&quot; is a short novel based i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69066387">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57932183">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 31 03:33:35 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 31 03:33:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent little book providing backstory around the start of the Prador war. Short, fast paced and tightly written, its a great read for those immersed in Asher's universe.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="41027002">
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  <date_added>Sat Dec 27 14:02:48 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 27 14:05:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unadulterated shlock.  Gigantic crab-like, intelligent, space-going creatures with a taste for human flesh.  You hope they don't phone home.  Go for it, Peter!  ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41027002?utm_medium=api]]></url>
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    <review id="41425288">
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Dec 31 12:29:45 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book, good story, a few British-specific terms that take some getting used to, but otherwise a top-notch fast paced sci-fi book.]]></body>
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    <review id="42536063">
  <user id="59679">
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 09 21:13:04 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 02 17:07:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wasn't really that impressed. I've seen Asher's work referenced several times around other books, so I decided to check him out. Maybe the hype was too much but really not overwhelmed.<br/><br/>The story was interesting but too short, leaving a ton of things out that woulda made it better, IMO.]]></body>
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    <review id="12014198">
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 08 17:24:31 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 08 17:24:31 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jeremy Lassen gave this to me at WisCon 2007. Though I started reading it on the trip home I didn't finish it; I was too scattered and excited by the prospect of so many new things to read. ]]></body>
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    <review id="29312147">
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 05 09:15:55 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 06 10:06:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fast paced and page turning, just not up to snuff vis a vis the Cormac novels.  Don't read this first if you are interested in Neal Asher.]]></body>
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    <review id="29570377">
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 07 19:14:20 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 07 19:14:55 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[See my review at:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue293/prador_moon_rev.html" title="http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue293/prador_moon_rev.html">http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue2...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1996134">
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    <name><![CDATA[Craig]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 15 07:33:08 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 15 07:33:53 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't finish. Awful jumble of alternating viewpoints and undeveloped characters.]]></body>
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    <review id="34726820">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 16 13:03:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Is there anyway to give less than one star?  This book was awful!]]></body>
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    <review id="24673287">
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    <body><![CDATA[Giant crabs. Also, violence.]]></body>
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