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    <body><![CDATA[Here is the story of Desolation Road, a ramshackle, hodgepodge little town of misfits that, over the course of its decades-long existence, would grow to be the epicenter of scandals, time travelers, a religious movement, terror cells, labor disputes, a baby in a jar, and an all-out war which would, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63238982">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great, interesting read - it had time travel, talking trains, supernatural aspects, fables combined with futurism, and fighting The Man.  In short, all the things I normally love in several books condensed into one.  There are a lot of unforgettable characters - in fact, possibly too many...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71457790">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing interweaving of stories and details.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ce roman nous raconte comment la ville de Desolation Road naquit, vécut et mourut.<br/>Voilà, c'est vite dit, mais le dire plus lentement m'imposerait de rentrer dans entrailles de ce roman assez tortueux, et je n'en ai pas spécialement envie.<br/>Dans la préface de cette édition, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9559.Sue_Grafton" title="Sue Grafton">Gérard Klein</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71386338">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)<br/><br/>Regular readers know that in the last year, I've ended up becoming a huge salivating fanb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25020797">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book about magical things happening on Mars. It is a pure fantasy with only the thinnest and occasional veneer of science fiction. The writing is good and the characters well-drawn and amusingly quirky, along the lines of &quot;The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&quot; but not as funny.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74953701">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Let me be up front: I only made it through 160 pages of this book. I'm kind of ashamed to say that, but, I really tried hard to make it through it, and just couldn't.<br/><br/>After reading Cory Doctorow's review/plug for this book not too long ago on BoingBoing, I was really intrigued. Mostly bec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64097120">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent book. Superbly weird and weirdly superb. It's a sort of magical realist/sci-fi book of a sort I've never read before. Or even heard of. Very original. <br/><br/>The characterization and thematic development are especially outstanding 'for a sci-fi book' as well as in general. If his n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68005181">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ McDonald combines the story telling techniques of Gabriel Garcia Marquez with the weird future fables of Cordwainer Smith and Jack Vance (the fable like story telling of all three authors isn’t as different as one would think). It also exists as an examination of our contemporary myths about Mars...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46375880">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Its kind a bit like Northern Exposure on Mars. Its a magic realist story of an unlikely Martian settlement inhabited by misfits. <br/><br/>I loved the first half or so, and the end. The more traditional military adventure plot in the second half of the book was not too much my cup of tea, though I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65829792">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<br/><strong>Nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award!</strong><p>It all began 30 years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality from Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chataqua and Educational Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel) to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. It's inhabitants ranged from Dr. Alimantando, the town's founder and resident genius, to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with and married the same woman.<br/></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[i think i've read this before but cory doctorow says i should read it again. so i will.<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/02/ian-mcdonalds-brilli-1.html" title="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/02/ian-mcdonalds-brilli-1.html">http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/02/ian...</a><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<br/><strong>Nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award!</strong><p>It all began 30 years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality from Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chataqua and Educational Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel) to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. It's inhabitants ranged from Dr. Alimantando, the town's founder and resident genius, to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with and married the same woman.<br/></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[If Gabriel Garcia Marquez will had been born on Mars a few hundred years from now, he might would had written this book.  Enough said.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Review: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/02/ian-mcdonalds-brilli-1.html">Cory Doctorow</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent.  Highly recommended.  Within a desert lies an oasis.  ]]></body>
    
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