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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash">Snow Crash (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/545.Neal_Stephenson">Neal Stephenson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:48:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Cyberpunk’s next generation pretty much began here.  Written by someone who -unlike William Gibson- actually knows computers, this anime in novel form is one of those rare SF books that is read by many non-SF readers.  <br/><br/>On a personal note, this is probably the only book I’ll ever read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8469183">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:32:40 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[You know, saying you don't like anime is like saying you don't like books written in English; too broad. Anime isn't a genre. It is just a word used to describe animated films and television shows that come from Japan. That includes, horror science fiction, fantasy, comedy, drama, romance, etcetera, plus the various and numerous genre hybrids.  So unless it is just the from Japan part that you “can’t stand” you might want to reconsider making sweeping generalizations.  <br/><br/>I do, however, understand how a person might come to an anti-anime state of mind considering the amount of crap anime there is out there. I personally only like about 20 percent of the anime I have encountered. But that 20 percent has been freaking brilliant (or at least sufficiently entertaining). Of course, that percentage also applies to most other media products across the board. For instance, I love a good horror film, but a lot of them suck.  Like anything, if you tread past the crap, you’ll eventually find the good stuff.  <br/><br/>I suppose in my description I could have said the book is a GOOD anime in book form, but that seems a little obvious.<br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977390.Distraction">Distraction (Mass Market Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/34429.Bruce_Sterling">Bruce Sterling</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:53:40 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Sterling is an ideas man (and one of my favorites), and this near future political thriller is filled with them.  Although some people have rightly complained that the actual story doesn't really begin until about 90 to 100 pages in, I still love every page of this novel.  Although much less silly (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8205392">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:03:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Thanks again.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156781.Distress">Distress (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/32699.Greg_Egan">Greg Egan</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:25:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Greg Egan is Australia’s preeminent hard SF writer.  This one is my favorite of his, right after Quarantine and Permutation City.  These three books are somewhat similar in that Egan starts us off in wonderfully realized near-future settings, and then later on throws some pretty heady concepts at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8812493">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67100.The_Calcutta_Chromosome_A_Novel_of_Fevers_Delirium_Discovery">The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium &amp; Discovery (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3369.Amitav_Ghosh">Amitav Ghosh</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:57:54 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This novel is set in three different time periods -the past, the present and the near future- and tells a fascinating and mysterious tale of secret histories, societies, viruses and information as a function of biology.  There is a lush quality to the writing that sucked me in.   Several years after...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8809412">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45245.The_Reality_Dysfunction">The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn Trilogy, Volume 1)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25375.Peter_F_Hamilton">Peter F. Hamilton</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:17:29 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Ah, the Night’s Dawn Trilogy.  One of the most amazing, wild space opera’s ever written.  In the UK it is 3 massive books, while here in the US they nickel-and-dimed us by splitting them up into 6.  It doesn’t really matter though, because it is not so much a trilogy as it is one gigantic cont...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8468129">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96478.Kiln_People">Kiln People (The Kiln Books)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14078.David_Brin">David Brin</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:01:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The lighter side of near future detective thrillers.  Well, only in terms of the detective element.  The SF side of things is amazing. David Brin has a generally much more optimistic view of the future, and it shows in his personable PI Albert Morris who would rather talk his way out of a confrontat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8091414">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1914627.River_of_Gods">River of Gods (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25376.Ian_McDonald">Ian McDonald</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:04:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is looking to be a detailed, fascinating and complicated exploration of India in the year 2047.  Ian McDonald has been writing SF for many years now, and this book has won some awards and garnered lots of rave reviews.  I used the word 'garnered.']]></body>
        
    
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