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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Ink and Steel</em> (and its sequel, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71121.Emergency_Sex_And_Other_Desperate_Measures_" title="Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) by Kenneth Cain">Hell and Earth</a>) is a prequel to the previous books in the series -- while the first two Promethean Age books are set in the modern era, <em>Ink and Steel</em> is set at the tale end of the Elizabethan Era.  In fact, it opens on the date of 30 May 1593 with the apparent death of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25865451">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Way too much sex and the story lines just did not tie together.  You never saw how the two separate kingdoms were dependent on each other.  It could have been very good but it definitely fell flat.  There were also a lot of characters to keep track of.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Slow paced and confusing, w/ a russian novel approach to names.  It was never clear how Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare were doing magic w/ their playwriting to support Queen Elizabeth.  I've read much better fantasies based on that time period.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book sounds like too much fun to pass up.  And now that Elizabeth Bear has won the Hugo Award for her short story <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.elizabethbear.com/tideline.html">&quot;Tideline&quot;</a>, she definitely looks like an author to watch.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>On the heels of <em>Hell and Earth</em></strong><br/><br/> Kit Marley, playwright and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His true gift to Her Majesty was his way with words, crafting plays infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule. He performed this task on behalf of the Prometheus Club, a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England. Assuming Marley's role is William Shakespeare, but he is unable to create the magic needed to hold the Queen's enemies at bay.<br/><br/>Resurrected by enchantment in Faerie, Marley is England's only hope. But before he can assist Will in the art of magic, he must uncover the traitor among the Prometheans responsible for his death.]]>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very cluttered read, one that I cannot recommend simply because I became lost so quickly and did not care enough about anyone to even attempt to catch up.  There were far too many characters introduced in even the opening pages that it became tiresome rather quickly to keep flipping back and tryin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75106397">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>On the heels of <em>Hell and Earth</em></strong><br/><br/> Kit Marley, playwright and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His true gift to Her Majesty was his way with words, crafting plays infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule. He performed this task on behalf of the Prometheus Club, a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England. Assuming Marley's role is William Shakespeare, but he is unable to create the magic needed to hold the Queen's enemies at bay.<br/><br/>Resurrected by enchantment in Faerie, Marley is England's only hope. But before he can assist Will in the art of magic, he must uncover the traitor among the Prometheans responsible for his death.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this, but since it was only half a book, I'll delay the review 'til I read _Hell &amp; Earth._<br/><br/>(Lucifer is still my fave. Such style.)]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>On the heels of <em>Hell and Earth</em></strong><br/><br/> Kit Marley, playwright and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His true gift to Her Majesty was his way with words, crafting plays infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule. He performed this task on behalf of the Prometheus Club, a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England. Assuming Marley's role is William Shakespeare, but he is unable to create the magic needed to hold the Queen's enemies at bay.<br/><br/>Resurrected by enchantment in Faerie, Marley is England's only hope. But before he can assist Will in the art of magic, he must uncover the traitor among the Prometheans responsible for his death.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing. Simply amazing.<br/><br/>And Kit Marley is teh hawt.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>On the heels of <em>Hell and Earth</em></strong><br/><br/> Kit Marley, playwright and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His true gift to Her Majesty was his way with words, crafting plays infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule. He performed this task on behalf of the Prometheus Club, a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England. Assuming Marley's role is William Shakespeare, but he is unable to create the magic needed to hold the Queen's enemies at bay.<br/><br/>Resurrected by enchantment in Faerie, Marley is England's only hope. But before he can assist Will in the art of magic, he must uncover the traitor among the Prometheans responsible for his death.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book a lot.  It was a bit thick and dense with action, but the writing was exemplary.  I liked the way the author wrote the dialogue, very close to Elizabethan rhythms and verbiage.  I was most impressed with that.  The plot is a bit more intricate and hard to follow than I'd like, but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74302780">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>On the heels of <em>Hell and Earth</em></strong><br/><br/> Kit Marley, playwright and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His true gift to Her Majesty was his way with words, crafting plays infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule. He performed this task on behalf of the Prometheus Club, a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England. Assuming Marley's role is William Shakespeare, but he is unable to create the magic needed to hold the Queen's enemies at bay.<br/><br/>Resurrected by enchantment in Faerie, Marley is England's only hope. But before he can assist Will in the art of magic, he must uncover the traitor among the Prometheans responsible for his death.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why, <em>why</em> did <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185637.Blood_and_Iron_Promethean_Age_Book_1_" title="Blood and Iron (Promethean Age, Book 1) by Elizabeth Bear">Blood and Iron</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185639.Whiskey_and_Water_Promethean_Age_Book_2_" title="Whiskey and Water (Promethean Age, Book 2) by Elizabeth Bear">Whiskey and Water</a> precede this book?!  <em>Ink and Steel</em> possesses the best qualities of its predecessors and few of their flaws.  Elizabeth Bear's skill flourishes in an alternate Elizabethan England where Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare are agents for the Qu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30083106">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>On the heels of <em>Hell and Earth</em></strong><br/><br/> Kit Marley, playwright and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His true gift to Her Majesty was his way with words, crafting plays infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule. He performed this task on behalf of the Prometheus Club, a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England. Assuming Marley's role is William Shakespeare, but he is unable to create the magic needed to hold the Queen's enemies at bay.<br/><br/>Resurrected by enchantment in Faerie, Marley is England's only hope. But before he can assist Will in the art of magic, he must uncover the traitor among the Prometheans responsible for his death.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elizabeth Bear's Promethean Age books have this much in common: heartbreaking, intense, complicated personal relationships, and politics that go way over my head. My solution is to read for the personal relationships and shrug off the politics, though that won't work for everybody. <br/><br/>This ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28870942">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this a little difficult to get into, but wound up liking the story very much. I agree with others that the whole &quot;Bound together by magic, their monarchies draw strength from each other, sustaining their regimes...&quot; was sort of undeveloped--even the &quot;secret society&quot; bit w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41306143">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>On the heels of <em>Hell and Earth</em></strong><br/><br/> Kit Marley, playwright and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His true gift to Her Majesty was his way with words, crafting plays infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule. He performed this task on behalf of the Prometheus Club, a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England. Assuming Marley's role is William Shakespeare, but he is unable to create the magic needed to hold the Queen's enemies at bay.<br/><br/>Resurrected by enchantment in Faerie, Marley is England's only hope. But before he can assist Will in the art of magic, he must uncover the traitor among the Prometheans responsible for his death.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story continues (is that right, considering this volume is set some 400 years before the previous two?), and, if you liked or hated the first two, you are unlikely to change course after <em>Ink and Steel</em>. Unless you came for the background and stayed for the &quot;Kit Marlow on Will Shakespeare&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31309930">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found a lot of this confusing and boring. Still, I finished it. But I read it much slower than I am usually able to read. Partly it's just the writing-style, excessively detailed and a whole ton of similes.<br/><br/>The pace is glacial for the first 270 pages. And so many names were thrown out i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35427193">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>On the heels of <em>Hell and Earth</em></strong><br/><br/> Kit Marley, playwright and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His true gift to Her Majesty was his way with words, crafting plays infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule. He performed this task on behalf of the Prometheus Club, a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England. Assuming Marley's role is William Shakespeare, but he is unable to create the magic needed to hold the Queen's enemies at bay.<br/><br/>Resurrected by enchantment in Faerie, Marley is England's only hope. But before he can assist Will in the art of magic, he must uncover the traitor among the Prometheans responsible for his death.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think that this book was mostly an excuse to have Marlowe and Shakespeare have a sexual romp through Faerie. The whole thing was bizarre and yet I kept reading it.  The politics were difficult to follow even though I know the period very well.  Sadly the author's research notes for the period are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74718864">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>On the heels of <em>Hell and Earth</em></strong><br/><br/> Kit Marley, playwright and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His true gift to Her Majesty was his way with words, crafting plays infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule. He performed this task on behalf of the Prometheus Club, a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England. Assuming Marley's role is William Shakespeare, but he is unable to create the magic needed to hold the Queen's enemies at bay.<br/><br/>Resurrected by enchantment in Faerie, Marley is England's only hope. But before he can assist Will in the art of magic, he must uncover the traitor among the Prometheans responsible for his death.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this is the third book in Elizabeth Bear's Promethean Age series, it actually takes place way before the other two: think Will Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth...literally.<br/><br/>Will Shakespeare and Kit Marley are drafted by the good faction of the Prometheans to use their poetry's mag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17961295">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So far interesting alternative (way alternative -- has the faerie court!) take on Shakespeare's and Marlowe's lives.  Bear has definitely done her research!  I like all the little in-jokes about Shakespearean scholarship (at one point Edward de Vere offers to comment on Titus Andronicus and Shakespe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64006862">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Explains the beginnings of Prometheans, Human Magi sworn to protect humans from the fae.<br/><br/>Boy am I struggling with this 3rd of the series. It is way too loaded with alternative history to the point of being boring. I like magic in my fantasy not just character development for 300 pages. No...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60037152">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book quite a bit.  It's an interesting take on Elizabethan England, if magic and places like Faerie actually existed.  It was a little easier to keep track of characters in this book compared to the two other Promethean books, maybe because we only switch back and forth between two vi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21805333">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the title that first caught my eye for the Promethean Age series but its publication date is after Blood &amp; Iron/Whiskey &amp; Water though within the timeline of the series it comes first. I'd recommend reading this duology before the contempary novels that were written first.]]></body>
    
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