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    <body><![CDATA[A book of such concentrated grittiness and scuzziness you feel you missed a bath reading it. A proto-cyberpunk, Bester inspired space opera that Harrison turns into a prose poem and a long shriek of despair. Bizarre and dark, this is not one of his best but fans of his and of Banks and Reynolds will...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31014385">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Harrison's early science fiction works, you can see glimpses here of what he accomplishes in <u>Light</u>.  Includes one of my top 10 favorite opening lines of all time:  <br/><br/><blockquote>&quot;It was St. Crisipn's ve on Sad al Bari IV when Captain John Truck, impelled by something he was forced to descr...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71876632">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ce livre nous raconte donc les aventures de Truck, pilote de vaisseau spatial, qui se trouve Ãªtre au coeur des magouilles entre deux grands empires multiplanÃ©taires, tous deux terriens, qui sâ€™opposent sur Terre et dans lâ€™espace pour une domination on ne peut plus virtuelle de lâ€™espace. Truck...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26192927">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[On the face of it, this is a science fiction novel about the legacy of an alien device discovered after they had been wiped out by the forces of earth.<br/><br/>Underlying that is a story of a man caught up in a whirlwind of conflicting ideologies and grasps for power.<br/><br/>I found the writing s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49431648">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war.   M. John Harrison's classic novel turns the conventions of space opera on their head, and is written with the precision and brilliance for which is famed.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice, nice. This is a part of my several part series to research influences on Banks. Actually, I thought this was a Banks book. But it wasn't.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war.   M. John Harrison's classic novel turns the conventions of space opera on their head, and is written with the precision and brilliance for which is famed.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[harrison's prose and ideas are among the greatest in science fiction, and, thus, literature.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war.   M. John Harrison's classic novel turns the conventions of space opera on their head, and is written with the precision and brilliance for which is famed.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kerouac meets Vonnegut in this swingin' 70s SF tale.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war.   M. John Harrison's classic novel turns the conventions of space opera on their head, and is written with the precision and brilliance for which is famed.]]>
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