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    <body><![CDATA[What a great book - the best of 2008 so far.<br/><br/>The basic idea: Galveston, Texas experiences a magical disaster and is cut off from the rest of the world. The city itself is divided into the mundane and real, and the never-ending twilight world of Mardi Gras.<br/><br/>Stewart illustrates h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3813180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, what a ponderous and lethargic fantasy novel. I liked the set-up: in the early 21st century, Galveston, Texas is inundated by a flood--but it's a flood of magic, not of water. This magical Flood kills many of the city's inhabitants and also decimates its infrastructure, rendering lots of 20th-c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69208826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 2004, waves of magic engulf the world and pull it into madness.  In Galveston, Texas, two women hold back the flood of magic.  With the help of the Mardi Gras Krewes and Momus, a trickster god, Jane and Odessa quarantine the magic into a never-ending carnival; anyone who demonstrates magic is kil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43949603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book at one of those 'book sale&quot; stores, and it was one of the best purchases I ever made. Sean Stewart's unique brand of magic captivates right from the start. This book is pure gold, a great introduction to Sean Stewart's writing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't enjoy this as much as Stewart's &quot;Passion Play&quot; -- but I still became engrossed by his vision of a gritty, grimly-determined Galveston in the wake of the return of magic to the world. This magic is chaotic, dangerous, often grotesque; and it's held at bay through the merciless exil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75089216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A highly original, gritty fantasy. In the year 2004, there was a Flood -- not of water, but of magic, which has destroyed most of civilization and left twisted magical beings in its wake. The Flood hit Galveston, TX in the middle of the Mardi Gras celebration, but thanks to the work of the witch wom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16095466">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent novel, I liked it much more than the Night Watch.  Play the hand you're dealt. The poker bits reminded me a bit like that Tim Powers.  Is poker inherently fantastical?<br/><br/>There's something very great and disturbing in the way that magic is presented as wonderful, strange and bizarr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48853870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here is a book written about my old stomping grounds, brought to life along with the Galveston of History, occupying the same space and time. A rich detailed magical realism based on the truth of Galveston's enthralling and haunted past.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved it. The atmosphere of surreality was at the same time perfectly logical, the characterization was sharp as a knife, and the writing was clean and crisp.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is set in the same world-premise as Stewart's Resurrection Man and The Night Watch.  Magic swept into the world like a hurricane in 2004 and humans in Galveston have been trying to ward it off for nearly a generation as the remnants of civilization crumble.  The fantasy was darker than I've...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2154137">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;This one is set in the same world-premise as Stewart's Resurrection Man and The Night Watch.  Magic swept into the world like a hurricane in 2004 and humans in Galveston have been trying to ward it off for nearly a generation as the remnants of civilization crumble.  The fantasy was darker tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11277635">more...</a>]]></body>
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