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false <![CDATA[Red Thunder]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170356281m/48682.jpg 48682 2 Debuting in 1974, John Varley became the decade's freshest, most exciting, and most important new science fiction author. He dominated the Seventies with numerous stories and two novels, set mostly in his Eight Worlds future history. By 1984 he had won three Hugo Awards and two Nebula Awards. Yet his output dwindled through the 1980s, and in the 1990s he released only two novels, Steel Beach and The Golden Globe, a pair of Eight Worlds books that received tepid responses. Fans who feared Varley was devolving into another Robert A. Heinlein imitator may have mixed reactions to Red Thunder, Varley's first novel of the new millennium. Part of SF's turn-of-the-century trend of "Mars novels," but not part of Varley's Eight Worlds series, Red Thunder reads a lot like a Heinlein juvenile novel, if Heinlein were alive and writing juveniles in 2003. Varley's paying tribute to the Master's juveniles, especially Rocket Ship Galileo and Red Planet (and also, more subtly, to the ending of Alfred Bester's novel The Stars My Destination). Though Varley is working with decades-old tropes and is not in his full wildly-imaginative 1970s mode, Red Thunder is an enjoyable SF novel that should win back many disgruntled fans and gain him a new generation of admirers. --Cynthia Ward 47625 2003 Red Thunder total:269|5:48|4:105|3:90|2:22|1:4| 269 978 348 42 5 1 false false Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 09 08:19:09 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 08:25:07 -0700 2008
I saw it in the school library, and picked it up off the shelf. I read the cover flap, and said, well, it'll be good for a laugh. But boy, was I wrong! It was much better tha...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Jul 11 20:40:54 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 20:43:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Nov 10 07:05:45 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 10 07:07:42 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:18:43 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 16:00:17 -0700 2009 This book has moved to the top of my list of books to give to people that do not want to read SF/F or are afraid of it.
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En un futuro cercano, Manny García, su amigo Dak y sus respectivas novias, tropiezan, literalmente, con el ex astronauta Travis Broussard, lo que se convertirá en un ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 26 12:12:47 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 12:34:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 06:50:21 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 08:42:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 12:08:08 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 12:13:33 -0800 2008
He doesn't disappoint here in his ability to write an entertaining story w...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Dec 01 14:10:12 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 14:10:45 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 14 08:00:01 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 08:00:01 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Sep 05 07:51:08 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 25 03:38:01 -0800 2008 Red Thunder in September & finally pulled it off Mount ToBeRead.

Manny and Dak, two Florida twenty-somethings trying to figure out what to do with their lives, happen across Travis Broussard, an ex-astronaut and current alcoholic. Turns out his brother, Jub...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 18:04:33 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 18:12:10 -0800 2009
Funny in parts, chilli...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 21:33:11 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 02:57:33 -0800 2009
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