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The Silk Code
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winner of Locus Award for Best First Novel of 1999, just re-issued as "author's cut" Kindle edition…more

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Elaine
Mar 02, 2009 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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So far, a delight! Imaginative, clever, smooth writing. Who can ask for more? Alas! I have to put it aside to read a book related to my research on the book I'm writing: Dogs and Civilization. As soon as I finish that book--and get my next chapter written, I'll finish The Silk Code

As the above indicates, the first third of the book is excellent. It starts in the present day with fireflies bred to burn down houses. The entire book explores the possibilities of invention without using machinery,
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