Slog

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Summary: The best thing to come out of Jersey since Springsteen
Review: Hey, this almost makes up for them inflicting Bon Jovi on us.

Slog is a very entertaining story. Mr Belush creates a believable post appocalypse world, populated with real, three dimensional characters, good solid environmental science, and plenty of fun.

Slog features love, betrayal, drugs, automatic weapons, dirigibles, politics, courtroom drama and angry Komodo dragons.

Richard Belush fleshes out his characters well, exploring the many facets of each, their strengths, weaknesses, neuroses and motivations. Anything that happens is a direct result of the characters decisions, not the whim of fate. This is very refreshing in a new author.

The book is really three short stories, each of which is brilliant, bound together by a few common characters. The opnly fault I had with the work at all was that the stories are a little disconnected. They seem more like three novellas than a single book. Individually, each is a five star story.

I urge you to read this book. I am looking forward to his next book with great anticipation.

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Summary: Slog
Review: I especially enjoyed the complex interplay of the many vivid characters and the scenes and conflict the author set them in. In addition to being a great story, Slog affected me in a sensory way, i.e., the characters were so well developed and the scenery so intense, that I could almost see and smell them. I found the scene where the main characters are escaping in a paisley-painted balloon with the stowaboard babies hysterically funny.

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Summary: Slog is ...............................
Review: Mr Bellush certainly has a gift to lure you into " his world " and then make sure you don't leave !!!!

I would recomend setting aside plenty of time when you start to read this work. The writers method of combining multiple characters and lines certainly will not allow you to put the book away until you have finished.

Wonderful work .... and I very much look forward to more of his work.

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Summary: A very highly recommended saga of the human struggle
Review: Richard Bellush's superbly written science fiction novel Slog is set in the context of a post-cataclysmic Earth where increased solar activity has changed the face of planet, made Antarctica a lush and fertile place, sparked wars, spread hideous diseases and famines, and dramatically endangered the survival of the human race. America no longer exists as a cohesive nation, and soon Quebec will colonize its once-sovereign lands. A welcome addition to any personal or community library science fiction collection, Slog is a gripping and very highly recommended saga of the human struggle to endure the mounting tides of planetary change.

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Summary: The perfect birthday book
Review: Richard Bellush, Jr. writes sci-fi for adults with quick minds and sharp wits. Social and political humor abound in the frighteningly-real tale of a modern everyman forced into saving a plausible, post-apocalyptic world for its own good - and you will cheer him every step of the way. Not for the little kids, but anyone who reads the news and chuckles to him/herself will feel right at home with Slog.

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Summary: Slog is Super
Review: Since this is my first book review, I'll make it sweet and short,

I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Couldn't put it down.

Thank-You Mr Bellush, When can we expect the next book!?????????