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    <body><![CDATA[Great premise - the logistics of creating a necessary ubermensch to further colonization -written with great style, surgical precision (literally at times)and more than a touch of Hard SF.  Besides these literary conventions, the book's real genius lies in his main protagonists change from boring ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76834391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw The Watchmen last night, and hunted down that old Outer Limits ep, &quot;The Architects of Fear&quot; today on teh yewtewbz. I'd seen it before I ever read The Watchmen, but had been disappointed that the alien wasn't as scary as promised. I guess the effects were long past state-of-the-art by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49157092">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit of dated science fiction so there are a couple chuckles in there because of that.  Not my style of novel.  Not a bad book per se, just could not sink my teeth into it.  After about 120 pages, I got into a groove and had to finish it.  I was slow to figure out the 'We' bit from the narration of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75057790">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[SF. Man cannot live on the surface of Mars, but Man plus machine can. I accidentally read the sequel to this, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Mars Plus" title=" Mars Plus"> Mars Plus</a>, first, and didn't like it. Somehow Pohl and his cowriter pooled their weaknesses instead of their strengths, but this book is all Pohl and though it suffers from his usual handic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2432131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Instead of going to the trouble of terra-forming Mars, let's change men into scary cyborgs capable of living on the Red Planet.  This is the premise of Pohl's Nebula Award winning novel.  <br/><br/>The transformation process is kind of disturbing, especially after they chop off the guy's most priv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40636873">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this story -- a man allows himself to be completely altered by doctors to be able to survive life on Mars without all of the usual gear a human would need.  I found the imagery to be very vivid -- it really caught my imagination.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was good.  Its not as readable as Gateway, it's all a bit dry throughout 70% of the book, which perhaps spoils the great story a little.  But it ain't bad at all.  I'd say more but I don't want to add spoilers.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A creepy as hell novel that gets way too close to its subject for comfort. Which is exactly the point. Heavy doses of abnormal psych fuel a really fascinating story of posthumanity.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The theme of cyborg creation and alienation as its result has been used by others.  Pohl's is the best I've read thus far.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nasty book.  If I had to pitch it to Hollywood, I'd call it Robocop crossed with the Right Stuff.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[loved it ending great]]></body>
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