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    <body><![CDATA[Caribbean pirates IN SPACE!  Battling hordes of aliens!  With internet viruses in place of wombs!  Woah!<br/>And yet, not.  The first half is rip-roaringly excellent, and can be found in pdf form here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/sampler/ragamuffinsampler.pdf" title="http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/sampler/ragamuffinsampler.pdf">http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/sampler/rag...</a><br/> It begins with Nashara, a mysterious and lethal ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23758900">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this, but not as much as his other two. I had a hard time following the battle scenes, I just couldn't visualize it for some reason. In general, I'm not into such &quot;hard&quot; sci-fi as Buckell writes, but he has a good character-driven side to balance out the &quot;battles in space&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69610895">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Crystal Rain was good. This was better: a really excellent followup, with all the excellent command of character, aliens, and all-around sf wonderful weirdness, and far less of the plot lags. I ate it rather quickly. :)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kingofthenerds.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/review-ragamuffin-by-tobias-s-buckell/">Full review at my blog!</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically &#8220;free,&#8221; mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. The secretive alien Satraps tightly restrict the technological development of the species under their control. Entire worlds have been placed under interdiction, cut off from the rest of the universe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Descended from the islanders of lost Earth, the Ragamuffins are pirates and smugglers, plying the lonely spaceways around a dead wormhole. For years, the Satraps have tolerated the Raga, but no longer. Now they have embarked on a campaign of extermination, determined to wipe out the unruly humans once and for all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But one runaway woman may complicate their plans. Combat enabled, Nashara is more machine than flesh, and she carries inside her a doomsday weapon that could reduce the entire galaxy to chaos. A hunted fugitive, she just wants to get home before she&#8217;s forced to destroy civilization---and herself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically &#8220;free,&#8221; mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. The secretive alien Satraps tightly restrict the technological development of the species under their control. Entire worlds have been placed under interdiction, cut off from the rest of the universe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Descended from the islanders of lost Earth, the Ragamuffins are pirates and smugglers, plying the lonely spaceways around a dead wormhole. For years, the Satraps have tolerated the Raga, but no longer. Now they have embarked on a campaign of extermination, determined to wipe out the unruly humans once and for all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But one runaway woman may complicate their plans. Combat enabled, Nashara is more machine than flesh, and she carries inside her a doomsday weapon that could reduce the entire galaxy to chaos. A hunted fugitive, she just wants to get home before she&#8217;s forced to destroy civilization---and herself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.5 to 5.0 stars. Superb sequel to the excellent Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell. Absolutely loved it. Terrific characters (Pepper is just great), outstanding world-building and alien cultures and, best of all, a well written, really good story. Highly recommended!!<br/><br/>Nominee: Nebula Awar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66390221">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not bad, but the first book was better. The first 3rd feels like it plays on a different end of the universe, but suddenly (within 10 pages) we've linked in the 1st book. It felt too abrupt and jarring. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Crystal Rain was good, Ragamuffin was great!  I will even forgive the confusion of not quite getting how parts one and two connected until it was made obvious.  ]]></body>
    
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