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    <body><![CDATA[++++++++++++++++++++ <br/>Sep '09: i discovered a bunch of my <em>What Do I Read Next?</em> reviews from the mid-90s when i was on a serious SF-canon reading tear (and, apparently, averse to capital letters). <br/>++++++++++++++++++++ <br/><br/>Plot Summary: humans have become extinct or have moved on to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71497286">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I give some Samuel Delany books 4 stars where I would give someone else 5, but only to be able to distinguish the whole-nother-plane ones like the einstein intersection, which gets its eerie effect by literalizing the impression that one's culture and language sometimes feel as though they might be ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48579228">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Psychedelic 60s SF version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, quite nicely done. The Orpheus character is sympathetic and well-realized, as is his demonic opponent, Kid Death. Eurydice is suitably beautiful, tragic and mysterious, but doesn't have much of a personality. Not a serious problem, however...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41535777">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If this is meant to be an imaginative retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth with a sci-fi bent and heavy doses of allusion to disparate classic elements, then I got it and enjoyed it.  If not, I'm lost and confused.<br/><br/>Not at all a favorite of mine, but it's relatively short (but pretty...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63027923">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Garbled, psychedelic post-apocalyptic science fiction. Each chapter is headed with several quotes from poems, philosophical texts and the author's journal kept during the writing of the novel, for no apparent reason. The few cohenrent glimpses it gives us of the world being described are tantalising...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48785278">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not science fiction at all. What little science is mostly wrong. Fantasy. Pretty good fantasy.<br/><br/>Award winning? Further proof of what I call the emperor's clothes syndrome. As I've said elsewhere, SF got silly toward the end of the 60s. Some folks liked it, and like it still. Not I.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58409770">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Samuel R. Delany book, and his second-best in my opinion (Dahlgren is No. 1).  Steeped in ancient and modern-day mythology, this tale takes place after humans have disappeared from the earth.  Where have they gone?  not important.  What's important is now an alien race has inhabited the ear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17321909">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the only book I've ever read where I had no idea what was going on the whole time and felt like I missed huge chunks of what the author was talking about, and still freaking loved it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://nhw.livejournal.com/588078.html">http://nhw.livejournal.com/588078.html</a>[return][return]Nebula winner from way back. I quite liked this at first, with the re-telling of the Orpheus and other myths very reminiscent of Zelazny's This Immortal and of Anderson's &quot;Goat Song&quot; which must have been writen at almost the same time. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8026637">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Heh. Weird breeds of semi-humans populate Earth. Status is represented by the words Lo, La or Le. The humans who are not 'functional' are placed in 'kages.' The tale of Orpheus, and Ringo and a bunch of other myths are rolled into one. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dude. I was about 3 chapters into this book and some guy flat out stole this book from me.<br/><br/>Nastyguy: 'Do you mind if I read this?'<br/>Me: 'Yes, I'm reading it.'<br/>Nastyguy: 'Can I take a look at it at least.'<br/>Me: 'Ummm, okay. But I'm in the middle of it, so don't leave with it.'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2240954">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I get the sense that this brief novel is a weird sort of key to Delany; that if you really grasped what he was trying to do, it would explain all of his other novels.  I don't get it, not completely, but it's a beautiful and mysterious book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this and still have no idea what the hell it was about. I get the mythic stuff (which I normally love in novels, but this rings a little flat), and the language is lyric, but the addition of splices from the writer's personal journal is just like, I'm sorry, why are you putting this in ag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15245435">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Quick read.  Think I shall re-read soon...I may have been in the wrong frame of mind for it.]]></body>
    
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