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I'm either a sentimental animal-lover at heart or a preternaturally genius mind trapped in the lumpen, inefficient body of a mere animal (I jest, I jest) but this book really did move me in a way that not a lot of genre fiction has done.

Stapledon is best known for ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 14:32:24 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 19:47:14 -0800 2008 1 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jul 26 16:00:08 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 16:05:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Sun Jan 27 20:47:27 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 20:47:27 -0800 2008 Odd John, but the bookstore didn't have a copy. [Later found a book with this plus O.J. but never got around to reading OJ because i was so nonplussed about Sirius.]

The style of an OLD book, definitely British, fascinated with place and telling readers everything as if ta...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jan 13 15:51:19 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 15:51:42 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 29 00:27:32 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 00:27:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 true false Sun May 04 17:06:56 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 11:35:47 -0700 2008 Frankenstein and, to a lesser extent, Moreau. Though it shares some of the same failures of plot as Huxley's BNW in that the premise ignores a few inherent fixtures of society, it is profound and eeri...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1972 Sat Dec 13 08:19:48 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 03 14:24:55 -0700 2009 Remarkably good SF story about an attempt to produce a dog with human-like intelligence. Sirius is one of the great fictional canine characters. Quite moving in places, especially the ending.
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