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  <title><![CDATA[Eclipse (A Song Called Youth, Book 1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Book one of John Shirley's pre-holocaust series, A Song Called Youth.  &lt;P&gt;The Russians didn't use the big nukes.  The ongoing Third World War leaves parts of Europe in ruins. Into the chaos steps the Second Alliance, a multinational eager to impose its own kind of New World Order.

In the United States ... in FirStep, the vast space colony ... and on the artificial island Freezone -- the SA shoulders its way to power, spinning a dark web of media manipulation, propaganda, and infiltration.

Only the New Resistance recognizes the SA for what it really is: a racist theocracy hiding a cult of eugenics.

Enter Rick Rickenharp, a former rock'n'roll cult hero: a rock classicist -- out of place in Europe's underground club scene, populated by &quot;wiredancers&quot; and &quot;minimonos&quot; ... but destined to play a Song Called Youth that will shake the world.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1985</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Eclipse (A Song Called Youth, Book 1)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Shirley]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this off a list of cyberpunk books back in the late 80s.  This is the first of a 3 part epic telling the story of the rise of fascist powers in post-WWIII Europe.  It reminds me a great deal of the new Battlestar Galactica series in tone and pacing.  This is one of those books I reread every...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been finishing book two and three of John Shirleyâ€™s brilliant Eclipse trilogy. Also known as the Song called Youth books. It is an excellent set of books telling the same story all in a very slightly different style from the last. The third book for example seems to a bit more gritty than t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50636515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If there was ever a successor to the neo-dystopian but not fully cyberpunk mantle of Gibson/Sterling then John Shirley should be so named.<br/><br/>I found his works through Demons (2000) and was suitably impressed to start looking at his other fiction.  I was not disappointed.  Fortunately, the f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38137795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30664027">
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I've decided to give up on Eclipse.  I'm just not into it, at all, and with about 150 pages left to read I just can't muster the enthusiasm to finish it.  I still don't really understand what the conflict is.  Shirley has spent way too much time introducing characters and the history of the wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30664027">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seminal cyberpunk from one of the earliest pioneers in the genre. It's a fantastically visceral story of war, technology, racism and revolution. Don't miss it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My #1 book-of-warning about the take-over of the civilized world by Neo-Con crypto fascist Christians. Very fun, very rock-and-roll, and seems more possible every day.]]></body>
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