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    <body><![CDATA[Kim Stanley Robinson is an excellent sci-fi author, and if you like sci-fi, you should definitely read his Mars trilogy. This book is different, it's set in the present (late 90s when the book was published) in Antarctica. It still retains much of his writing style from the Mars trilogy and is an en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57461749">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Part of me loved this book and part of me hated it.  I have somewhat of an obsession with Antarctica, but when faced with my nemesis, Science Fiction, I balked a bit.  The book was written in the late 1990's and set now-ish.  If you can ignore the occasional weird &quot;future&quot;ism (everyone has...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19774316">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was like a mini version of KSR's mars trilogy--enjoyable for the same reasons but on a less epic scale.  (i think the first mars book even starts out with the colonists training in antarctica, right?)  anyway, this made me want to go to antarctica as much as the mars trilogy makes me want ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8527739">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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