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Read this book several years ago. It's an okay book, but highly derivative of early Alan Dean Foster. The ecology review is better, but the aliens are really "just like us" only "living in harmony with their environment" which at this point puts it between Avatar, Ferngully and Dances With Wolves as the most overused plot point ever.
Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk. Faerie is …
One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing …
From back cover Berkley paperback September 1984:
It was a new word for Hell. An escape-proof prison mine, where the …
The second book in the Lilith's Brood trilogy, this story takes place years after the arrival of Oankali aliens in …
In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. A constant stream of new technology spawns crime before …
Myst: The Book of Atrus invites you to traverse the veil of reality and delve …
The funniest part about this book is Atrus going through another writer's book and picking out various kludges and hacks that have been added to the book to try and fix issues that came out of an inelegant structure. This is a clear analogy to computer programming, but applied to a "real" world, and it works surprisingly well.
"A marvellous mixture of hard-science SF and sword-and-sorcery imagery.... You wish the author were present so you could applaud." - …
It's a well intentioned book, but it's more of a pulling together of several different techniques and strategies... all from books that I've already read. With that in mind, I can't give it a very high rating.
