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    <body><![CDATA[*Nearly worth 5 stars*  I often flick through the shelves at my local library to see what covers catch my attention - yes... I also freely admit that I judge books by their covers.<br/><br/>It's easy to understand, then, why I was drawn to this one. “What's this? A sexy lycra clad vixen with eno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72533566">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In all honesty it was the back of August’s Chasing the Dragon that helped form my decision to read Keeping It Real.  I remember when the series first hit and thinking that it sounded cool but I somehow managed to never pick it up.  Set in a world where a “Quantum Bomb” has opened up the gatewa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72269696">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  Excellent fantasy read with hot elf romance.  A Quantum Bomb changed the nature of the world when it allowed the other dimensions access to the human world.  Elves, elementals, demons and other magic realms are all now connected and there are some (mainly the high elves) who are a bit pissy ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41020136">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been on a butcher / caine / armstrong / etc run recently - a fantasy in a modern setting kick. This one just didn't do it for me; it was a little too shadowrun-y for me. I like cyborgs. I like elves in a modern setting. I like the idea of a quantum bomb ripping open paths to other universes. I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4182648">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Agent Lila Black - half human / half robot, all attitude!<br/><br/>The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the  universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later,  the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of,  amongst others, the elfin, elemental, and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology. Elves are exotic, erotic,  dangerous, and really bored with the constant Lord of the Rings references.  Elementals are a law unto themselves and demons are best left well to themselves.   <br/><br/>Special agent Lila Black used to be pretty, but now she's not so sure. Her  body is more than half restless carbon and metal alloy machinery, a machine  she's barely in control of. It goes into combat mode, enough weapons for a  small army springing from within itself, at the merest provocation. <br/><br/>As for  her heart, well, ever since being drawn into a game by the elfin rockstar  Zal (lead singer of the No Shows), who she's been assigned to protect,  she's not even sure she can trust that any more either.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Umm. The book had cyborgs and elves and dragons, but I think this wasn't actually fantasy or scifi, but chick lit. Not sure why I picked it up. Maybe because Robson has solid hard scifi credentials, and I was curious what she would be doing with this material. Not much, as it turned out.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty much everything but the kitchen sink in this series!  I am calling it cyber-fantasy for lack of a better name, because this is like Tolkein bred with William Giboson!  A cross between high elvish fantasy (with demons, elves, fairies, ghosts, primeval forces and dragons) and cyberpunk and a da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74379570">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Promising set up, poor execution.  The basic idea of some sort of quantum catastrophe leading to dramatic changes in our reality is surprisingly timely given what is happening over at CERN (even though the scientific theories as to how this could happen are absent in both book and reality), and the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49426419">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)<br/><br/>So once again, it's time for me to pen a single essay concerning an entire series of genr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50416574">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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