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  <title><![CDATA[Carnival]]></title>
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  <default_description>In Old Earth&amp;#8217;s clandestine world of ambassador-spies, Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen were once a starring team. But ever since a disastrous mission, they have been living separate lives in a universe dominated by a ruthless Coalition&amp;#8212;one that is about to reunite them.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The pair are dispatched to New Amazonia as diplomatic agents Allegedly, they are to return priceless art. Covertly, they seek to tap its energy supply. But in reality, one has his mind set on treason. And among the extraordinary women of New Amazonia, in a season of festival, betrayal, and disguise, he will find a new ally&amp;#8212;and a force beyond any that humans have known&amp;#8230;.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">28</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">11</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Carnival</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Bear]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the canon that Bear created for this long bit of science fiction, and that's what kept me reading despite the too obvious attempts to write an epic. (When the first line of a writer's bio proclaimed that she shares a birth-date with Sam and Frodo, I smiled and rolled my eyes.) This is the wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47739270">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 17 17:56:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 30 17:29:12 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A marvelous playing out of the dynamics of colonization in the shadow of an environmental apocalypse on Earth -- though what brings about the apocalypse is actually radical engineers who create a program to Assess humans on the basis of their practices of sustainability.  The Assessment that lies be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49608285">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47827550">
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    <name><![CDATA[Paula]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 28 16:17:15 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 04 13:49:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another bookswap book and my first experience of a book by this writer - essentially the premise of <em>Carnival</em> is that our protagonists, Vincent and Angelo, are two men who have previously worked together as diplomatic agents. They also happened to be lovers in a universe where this is frowned upon be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47827550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5651797">
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    <name><![CDATA[Brownbetty]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canada]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 04 13:20:55 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 28 12:08:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[First, shameful confession: I couldn't remember which one of the guys was Vincent, and which one was Angelo.  They both have a lot of names, they're both determined, resourceful, embittered, hiding things, and madly in love with each other.  If one of them could have had a speech impediment, or been...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5651797">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5651797]]></url>
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    <review id="3722098">
    <user id="56479">
    <name><![CDATA[Res]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Peoria, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 28 18:23:46 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 13 13:28:31 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The one set after the enviroterrorist apocalypse, where Vincent and Michelangelo, lovers and spies, are sent to make a treaty with the viciously matriarchal planet New Amazonia.<br/><br/>I liked many things about this book. I enjoyed the characters: Vincent and Angelo, to a lesser degree Lesa and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3722098">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="46892804">
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    <name><![CDATA[Melissima]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oakland, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 19 15:03:01 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 18 11:44:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, though I had a bit of trouble keeping the cast of characters straight in my mind. (May be attributable to gaps of several days to a week between reading sessions.) <br/><br/>Bear never lets things be easy for her characters, and I like that. This book employs a lot of u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46892804">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46892804]]></url>
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    <review id="66557142">
    <user id="870517">
    <name><![CDATA[Kristin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Saint Paul, MN]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 07 11:34:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 07 11:34:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting look at what happens when a matriarchal colony planet resumes contact with the original expansionist, patriarchal culture--kind of an updated Gate to Women's Country. The characters were interesting and well-drawn and the plot intricate but I wish there'd been more of the world and di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66557142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43452339">
    <user id="1925147">
    <name><![CDATA[Kristen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 18 08:06:04 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 18 08:06:04 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Turns out I'm not quite the target audience for this one. My problem (not the book's!) is that I responded, &quot;Too much intrigue, not enough cool alien technology!&quot; (Apparently she was saving up a lot of the cool technology for Dust.) Other than that, there's an excellent book here. I just h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43452339">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43452339]]></url>
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    <review id="2555611">
    <user id="146719">
    <name><![CDATA[Chanpheng]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lao People's Democratic Republic]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 29 23:14:18 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 01 08:45:59 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book about ten times, and kept putting it down around page 15. I think it had more to do with my unsettled state of mind when reading it because when I did get into it, I enjoyed it. Two former lovers are reunited as a diplomatic team to repatriate art stolen during an incursion on th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2555611">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64788098">
    <user id="1642318">
    <name><![CDATA[Kariss]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Anchorage, AK]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jul 24 09:28:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, always nice to find a new author. Enjoyed the story and the telling]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64788098]]></url>
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    <review id="45782612">
    <user id="1413439">
    <name><![CDATA[Stephen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Las Vegas, NV]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Feb 14 16:14:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.0 stars. Excellent debut novel with some terrific ideas and good world-building. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45782612]]></url>
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    <review id="4118757">
    <user id="163649">
    <name><![CDATA[Natlyn]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Silver Spring, MD]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 05 15:05:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 27 08:39:54 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A well-thoughtout conspiracy and intrigue plot. The moments of vegan-omnivore culture shock were well done. However, I was disappointed that for a universe in which only brown people remained, the cultures, politics and ideologies seemed standard Western caucasian. Except for frequent descriptions o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4118757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="145930">
    <user id="12794">
    <name><![CDATA[pea]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Mar 17 10:01:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really, really liked this. The first 3/4 anyway, the last 1/4 was not the writer, but the reader and I'll cop to that. It is, however, my favourite of Bear's SF books, and I'm pretty sure it's a standalone, go figure. The girl writes series the way some people write to-do lists (fast!) and yet, no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/145930">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/145930]]></url>
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    <review id="23023639">
    <user id="1036347">
    <name><![CDATA[Katherine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lawrenceville, GA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really love &quot;planet of the women&quot; stories, especially the ones where the planet of the women isn't a Utopia.  Most Utopias are boring, unless they're under threat from a Dystopia, because otherwise it's just too hard to get conflict into the story.  <br/><br/>This &quot;planet of the w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23023639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="294789">
    <user id="26259">
    <name><![CDATA[Jenne]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting premise, but the plot was so complicated that it was hard to really get into the story.  I guess I wanted it to be more escapist than it was.]]></body>
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    <review id="11513402">
    <user id="192242">
    <name><![CDATA[Miss_ginny_tea]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Aug 01 04:12:26 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, so good. Wow. It's a disturbing read in some ways, but it's meant to be. So good.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11513402]]></url>
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    <review id="10045051">
    <user id="664816">
    <name><![CDATA[Liz]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 06 12:13:02 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sequentialtart.com/reports.php?ID=5125">Sequential Tart review</a>]]></body>
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