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  <default_description>Awakening in a strange world of repression, rationing, and fear,   the citizens of small Michigan town Two Rivers, victims of a mysterious   government plot, band together in a dangerous quest to discover what   has gone wrong. Reprint. &lt;i&gt;LJ. PW. NYT. &lt;/i&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Charles Wilson]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[precocious middle schoolers who are into sci-fi]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a lot of Robert Charles Wilson in junior high, and I thought he was awesome.  I hadn't read him in years, though, when I picked this one up last month, and it turns out he's better suited for junior high.  I enjoyed <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Mysterium" title=" Mysterium"> Mysterium</a>, but not with the kind of &quot;oooh, I'm so smart!&quot; feeling ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11343380">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about some town that is transported to an alternate earth.  The main difference is that the gnostics had won the battle for christianity.  For whatever reason, this caused earth to be set back technologically about 60-70 years.<br/><br/>This book was ok.  I don't remember it that well.<br/>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Il y a essentiellement deux sortes de science fiction : la futuriste et l'uchronique. Wilson appartient à la deuxième et plus précisément au genre du &quot;formidable événement&quot;. Ici, l'explosion d'un artefact archéologique qui ne peut exister transplante un disque autour d'une petite vi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59011251">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Been a long time since I read this one but I remember a town ripped out of its world and into another and loving it when I read it.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book over ten years ago and still remember the agreeable frisson that I had from this tale of a parallel universe with a repressive form of Gnosticism.  I can't remember many details, but I did like it when I read it.]]></body>
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    <review id="23035499">
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  <read_at>Mon May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good, fast read.  Sci-fi with an eye towards ethics.  It was fun and quick, though very predictable.  Still, I will read other books by this author.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wilson had a great idea in this novel, but I wish he had spent more time exploring that idea. I feel as though he just skimmed the surface.]]></body>
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