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  <title><![CDATA[Ring]]></title>
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  <default_description>Michael Poole's &lt;I&gt;wormholes&lt;/I&gt; constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. &lt;P&gt; &lt;CENTER&gt;&lt;B&gt;It worked. Too well.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/CENTER&gt; &lt;P&gt; Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS--and a promise. The universe was doomed, but humankind was not. Poole had stumbled upon an immense artifact, light-years across, fabricated from the very &lt;I&gt;string&lt;/I&gt; of the cosmos. &lt;P&gt; &lt;CENTER&gt;&lt;B&gt;The universe had a door. And it was open...&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/CENTER&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stephen Baxter]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard SF. Very hard -- I think I might have chipped a tooth. Something is wrong with the sun, and all the stars around us are dying far before their time. A conscious virtual human is sent into Sol to investigate, while an unlikely crew sets out to travel five million years into the future and see if...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41137266">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was only so-so.  I have read a bunch of later Baxter books, and you can really feel that this is an early one.  The neat part is that you can see his brain thinking about the ring artifact that figures large in the Manifold series.  If this was the only book I'd read by Baxter, I'd think h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15115365">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 02 12:52:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[For some reason I love this book. Great ideas and exploration of a far flung future, but the characters are pretty dull. ]]></body>
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    <review id="38549078">
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 24 12:45:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I still don't know what this book is about.  I will have to reread.  It was pretty neat though, very imaginative.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[blew my mind, takes far future sci fi to the next level.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A truly horrible book. It claims to be &quot;very, very hard SF&quot;, but almost all important features of the plot are completely implausible. A lot of buzzwords are thrown around, and basic understanding of certain principles is demonstrated, but real understanding of the fundamentals is complete...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37847211">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did enjoy this book, but there were some things I found upsetting. Foremost was Baxter's continual &quot;There can't be a God, dammit, because I don't want there to be one!&quot; attitude. He harps on it so frequently that eventually it begins to detract from everything he writes. His hard science...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47461524">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Took me a bit to get into it, but once I did, i couldn't put it down.   Once I did put it down, i had that feeling of un-reality - was the world I was in real?   Delicious. <br/>Made me think about living for an infinite amount of time. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stephen Baxter is the new generation Sc Fi writer and he writes real hard science stuff. He is touted as the next Arthur C Clarke.<br/><br/>Ring is a great read. All Sci Fi admirers should read stephen Baxter]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[1st taste of Baxter. Immediately realized that his were the type of stores I'd been searching for since reading Clarke's Childhoods end. So very good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic Read, from near future to end of Universe and beyond. Great imagination]]></body>
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