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false <![CDATA[In the Country of the Blind]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174547932m/416325.jpg 416325 4 In the Country of the Blind is a tense, complex, exciting conspiracy thriller, highly recommended to all fans of suspense fiction, secret history, alternate history, and science fiction. In the 19th century, the British scientist Charles Babbage designed an "analytical engine," a working computer that was never built--or so the world believes. Sarah Beaumont, an ex-reporter and real estate developer, is investigating a Victorian-era Denver property when she finds an ancient analytical engine. Sarah investigates her astonishing discovery and finds herself pursued by a secret society that has used Babbage computers to develop a new science, cliology, which allows its practitioners to predict history--and to control history for its own purposes. And it will stop at nothing to preserve its secret mastery of human destiny. Michael Flynn is one of best and most interesting of the modern hard-SF writers, combining rigorous extrapolation with skilled prose and strong characterization. In the Country of the Blind is his first novel, but it was somewhat overlooked when it appeared in 1990, perhaps because it debuted as a paperback original. Now Tor has reissued the book in hardcover, the format it deserves. This edition has been slightly revised, and it includes, as an afterword, Flynn's essay "An Introduction to Cliology," which plausibly explains the intriguing science the author has created in this novel. Readers of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series are probably wondering how Flynn's cliology relates to Asimov's psychohistory. Flynn is clearly aware of Asimov's science of history, but takes cliology far in its own fascinating directions. Foundation fans should check out In the Country of the Blind. --Cynthia Ward 1922459 1990 In the Country of the Blind total:43|5:7|4:13|3:15|2:6|1:2| 43 146 83 10 416325 076534498X 9780765344984 36 9 In the Country of the Blind 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174547932m/416325.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416325.In_the_Country_of_the_Blind 4 0 false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 11:48:30 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 11:58:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 416325 076534498X 9780765344984 36 9 In the Country of the Blind 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174547932m/416325.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416325.In_the_Country_of_the_Blind 2 0 false Sun Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 13 08:25:39 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 13 08:44:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 416325 076534498X 9780765344984 36 9 In the Country of the Blind 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174547932m/416325.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416325.In_the_Country_of_the_Blind 3 1 false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 07:49:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 07:49:46 -0700 2009 The Witches of Chiswick (Robert Rankin). Very different books, but both deal with alternate historyies along the lines of "what if" Babbage's computer (which when built to plan a decade or so back really worke...more...]]> 416325 076534498X 9780765344984 36 9 In the Country of the Blind 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174547932m/416325.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416325.In_the_Country_of_the_Blind 1 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 08:19:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 10:12:33 -0700 2009 416325 076534498X 9780765344984 36 9 In the Country of the Blind 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174547932m/416325.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416325.In_the_Country_of_the_Blind 2 0 false Thu Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 19:11:09 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 19:13:28 -0800 2008 416325 076534498X 9780765344984 36 9 In the Country of the Blind 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174547932m/416325.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416325.In_the_Country_of_the_Blind 3 0 false Sat Jun 16 08:32:51 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 08:37:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 416325 076534498X 9780765344984 36 9 In the Country of the Blind 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174547932m/416325.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416325.In_the_Country_of_the_Blind 4 0 false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Apr 24 19:43:58 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 24 19:47:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3144280 0312874448 9780312874445 6 1 In the Country of the Blind 3.40 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3144280.In_the_Country_of_the_Blind 3 0 false Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 12:55:44 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 17:36:32 -0700 2008
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