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  <title><![CDATA[Solstice]]></title>
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  <default_description>EELOnce it nurtured us. Grew our crops. Bathed us in its warmth. Now the sun is destroying us, as each day the temperature rises. Water is sucked from the earth. Cancerous diseases bloom. And humankind races panic-stricken for shelter as the most powerful societies and sophisticated infrastructures begin to fry...THE Why is it happening? How can it be stopped? For a man and woman drawn into the upper echelons of a worldwide scientific search, the answer is staggering: The sun has turned deadly not because of global warming or any natural phenomenon. The sun has turned deadly because once a government built a fantastic weapon. And now it has fallen into the wrong hands...HEAT And the burning has just begun...</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1998</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[David Hewson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 17 14:52:18 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall pretty interesting book with a take on 2012 but with a very irritating character.  He has to argue, drag his feet beyond reason, etc so you just want to scream &quot;Just do it!&quot;  This characteristic tends to drag the book down and take you out of the storyline.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This started off as a pretty good read - thriller with some sci-fi concepts.  But, about halfway through, it lost my interest. I kept on going and hurried through the rest, but I never regained my initial interest in it.  The characters were not engaging, and I wasn't invested in them at all.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is considered Science Fiction. I normally do not care for Science Fiction, but this is so well written that the unbelievable becomes believable. Wonderful story!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book I've read from David Hewson. This has a bit of science fiction, a genre I rarely read. But it's more of a thriller, so I'm classifying it as such. A great read with lots of suspense and great aerial scenes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the book is good...easy to understand and link with...<br/>maybe the book tells us something that will happen..who knows the military today find way to control the sun..this is a good book..i expect everyone to read it...]]></body>
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