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    <body><![CDATA[This, along with Octavia Butler's <em>Xenogenesis</em> trilogy and Roger Zelazny's <em>A Night in the Lonesome October</em> get read by me about once a year, because I adore them all so much.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this many years ago when I read it. Not sure it would stand the test of time]]></body>
    
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