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  <title><![CDATA[Dangerous Offspring (The Modern World)]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;p&gt; Steph Swainston returns to the dazzling, dizzying world of the Fourlands with the audacious sequel to her acclaimed novels &lt;i&gt;The Year of Our War&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;No Present Like Time&lt;/i&gt;. Jant Comet, the messenger, has survived deadly insects, internecine politics, and even his own debilitating, life-threatening addiction. But now he faces a challenge greater than any he has met in the last several centuries, one that could shake the foundations of the Fourlands forever. For the Emperor himself is riding to the front, and nothing is as it seems . . . &lt;/p&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">7</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2007</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Steph Swainston]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first two books in this series are good fun. This one - not so much. It has the same wild invention, the same linguistic verve, but oh so little plot, and at times it's little more than a travelogue through Swainston's carefully-mapped (perhaps too carefully-mapped) world. <br/><br/>Jant's peo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49588455">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 09 18:10:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 09 18:17:55 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>     I enjoyed this a lot, which means I'm going to have to go back and read the first two in the series: The Year of Our War, and No Present Like Time.<br/>     Here we follow centuries-old Jant Comet, the winged messenger, as he flies around, into and out of trouble taking messages fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17403629">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Oct 18 13:07:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Third book set in the Paperlands. I like this gritty kind of &quot;modern&quot; fantasy.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 08 05:25:38 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a bit worried I'd have trouble getting into this having left it so long since I read the previous two books. I like the way in all her books that you are flung straight into the thick of it, there is no spoon feeding. As soon as I started reading I was back with Jant and the gang, very hard to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55905948">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11615810">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this volume (in the series that includes previous books <em>The Year of Our War</em> and <em>No Present Like Time</em>) is actually a bit more readable than the last book, probably because there's more action and we're getting at some of the background mysteries of how and why things are as they are in this w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11615810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3294161">
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 19 18:22:26 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Third book in the series by Steph Swainston.  This author is an anthropologist who created some insane worlds, however, this isn't as evident in this installment.  It seems more along the lines of a tie-over between story arcs.  Liked Year of Our War and No Present Like Time much better.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jun 20 16:27:26 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Battles fought, friends lost and secrets explained. Better than the first two in some ways, and I'm sad that I've run out of Swainston to read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fluff, but not terrible. Better than the previous one, but nowhere near as good as &quot;The Year Of Our War&quot;. I think she's wearing out the stories these characters have in them.]]></body>
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