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    <body><![CDATA[Competent Sci-Fi. An interesting story of what may be: capitalism purified by environmental collapse and the desperate development of deep space. It's a good quick read that will hook you. It hooked me anyway, now I wonder if I will ever get the chance to borrow that third book in the series  from D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42655896">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The beginning of his &quot;Asteroid War&quot; series.  Interesting view on the effects of greenhouse gas, and capitalism run amok.  Wonderful characters. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this but two things annoyed me: 1) the editing errors in the book and 2) the sexism!<br/><br/>I may give it another go when I am in a better frame of mind and can gloss over the 2 things I have mentioned. <br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a perfect example of what is known as hard science fiction. In other words, strictly factual in it's scientific premise, no fantasy elements.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[book one in the asteroid wars.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting storyline but I was turned off by some sexist aspects. Every chapter Amanda appears in mentions at least once how nicely she fills out her spacesuit, and then she decides to marry a guy she doesn't know partly to avoid the creepy guy who also wants to marry her. Had the book been publish...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2909091">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was looking for some classic style science fiction and this was it.   I enjoyed both the characters and the setting.  The fact that politicians, moral groups, and corporations fight each other while the Earth becomes more uninhabitable, made it seem less like fiction and more like a true vision of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34340574">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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